BOMB Magazine Issue 172

Ocean Vuong and Björk discuss the author’s new novel, The Emperor of Gladness, which the singer deems a “Huckleberry Finn for the twenty-first century.” Cover artist collective CFGNY speaks with Guadalupe Rosales about cultivating communal and plural ways of being. Lucy Dacusand McKinley Dixon reflect on how their experiences in the Richmond, Virginia, DIY scene influence their music today. An excerpt from Catherine Lacey’s new hybrid work, The Möbius Book. A comic by Solomon Brager and charles theoniaon the erotic potential of popping zits. Reflections on Melissa Febos’s The Dry Season, Sebastian Castillo’s Fresh, Green Life, and bruno darío’s posthumous poetry collection Lantana, or the indissoluble exhalation.