BOMB Magazine #170 (Winter 2025)

Jena Osman asks, “What if a poem could get you closer to that which you hadn't seen before?” Torkwase Dyson traces the line between Black self-liberators and abstraction. Payal Kapadiadiscusses making her new film, All We Imagine as Light, envisioning a new kind of friendship between women. Lauren Markham on memorialization and climate change. In Editor’s Choice, reflections on Ralph Lemon’s performance Tell it anyway, 2024, Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias’s film Pepe, and Youssef Rakha’s novel The Dissenters.