46.1 Feature: Craft Essay by Diana Clarke Diana Clarke is a writer and teacher from New Zealand. She received her MFA in fiction from Purdue University and is currently pursuing her PhD at the University of Utah. Her debut novel, Thin Girls, is out now, and her second...
46.2 Feature: Craft Essay by Jessica Lanay Jessica Lanay is an art writer, poet, librettist, and short fiction writer. She is a frequent contributor to BOMB Magazine where you can find her interviews with Howardena Pindell, El Anatsui, Alan Michelson, and others. Her...
“Corrective vision surgery takes on a whole new meaning in ‘Chinatownland.’ The result is a cartography that includes our blindspots. In ‘Chinatownland,’ juxtaposition, one of disruption’s favorite tools, simultaneously blurs and focuses...
“‘Goose Theory’ did a lot in its densely packed self, notably a palpable balance of both joy and dread; a love and a playfulness of language that is all too aware of language’s history of reduction, destruction, and colonial vivisection. It takes the...
The Coffin, the Ship by Mel Kassel from BWR 46.1 At dawn, I look out the porthole and wait for my vampire. Here’s what will happen: he’ll knock gently on the ship’s hull. I’ll push the circle of glass outward, and he’ll slip inside as a rush of Spanish moss. He’ll...
” ‘What it Took’ is—thankfully, blessedly, refreshingly—strange. Visceral and seething, this story contains all the ingredients of a forbidden spell, and reading it is like tucking into an ancient grimoire. The most affecting stories are often...
