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A book cover appears on a pale blue background. The book’s title, Beginning Middle End, appears in a black serif font at the top. Phases of the moon in pink and yellow are in the middle. The author’s name, Valeria Luiselli, appears near the bottom, above an illustration of an erupting volcano.

Writing: Valeria Luiselli's Beginning Middle End
The painter and assistant confront each other in a dark brown hallway. The painter is leaning against a doorframe in a striped blue sweater while the assistant, in profile, wears layered earth tones.

Film: Steven Soderbergh
Book cover of Canon by Paige Lewis, featuring a grid of illustrated panels — a blue whale floating through sky, two figures in combat, a night seascape, and a vivid salamander — bisected vertically by a hot pink stripe with the title in bold black letters.

Writing: Paige Lewis
A watercolor of a Black woman in a black dress surrounded by black birds.

Visual Art: David McGee
A headshot of Dynasty Handbag in a beige mesh sack with smeared clown-color goth makeup and a ratty blond-black Siouxsie-Sioux wig.

Theater & Performance: Dynasty Handbag
An oval abstract work made with bands of colored pencil and thread.

Visual Art: Tia Keobounpheng
A portrait photo of Dave Eggers looking at the camera, smiling, and crossing his arms.

Writing: Dave Eggers
BOMB 176 Summer 2026 Cover

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A colorful mixed-media work featuring a Black female, banners, and balloons.

Visual Art: Victoria Dugger
Hannah Lillith Assadi Paradiso 17 cover

Writing: Hannah Lillith Assadi
The wife character, played by Zhao Tao, wanders through Torino's cinema museum. Oval images of film stars and scenes are blurred on the background, projected onto oxblood walls.

Film: Jia Zhangke
Eoghan Walls Field Notes from an Extinction Mock Up

Writing: Eoghan Walls
A painting of a pregnant woman with black hair wearing a leather jacket.

Visual Art: Sue Webster
MJ Corey Dekonsructing the Kardashians Mock Up

Writing: MJ Corey
Margaret Barry Saint Spot Encounters the Macular Microfauna2

Comic: Margaret Barry
Eighteen black-framed panels surround a four-by-three grid of white-framed panels. Four more white-framed panels extend from the corners of the surrounding panels. Each panel shows a unique quilt with two small pillows. The assemblage is hung on a white wall.

Visual Art: Elaine Reichek
Hugh Ryan in a white dress diving into a blue sky.

Writing: Hugh Ryan
Samora Pinderhughes playing piano while surrounded by an accompanying band on a circular stage. The lights cast on the room are blue, white, and red. An audience sat in chairs circles the musical troupe.

Performance: Samora Pinderhughes
Person Holding a Burning Wood

Poetry: Adedayo Agarau
An installation view of paintings of the back of four vans on separated, staggered walls.

Visual Art: Mario Ayala
Ruth Ozeki photo

Writing: Ruth Ozeki
A graphic titled “Occupations of Black Americans, 1900–2021” at the top, with a vertical axis defined by descending years, with vertical bars alongside it bearing different widths depending on the size of each occupation per year defined by a color key at the bottom.

Portfolio: Printing Black America: Du Bois’s Data Portraits in the 21st Century
A tall oblong ceramic work with black stripes and a large ceramic orange head appear on a platform in an industrial space. The platform also supports smaller oblong ceramic works.

Visual Art: Jun Kaneko
A latex painting on a patterned sheet with a yellow tag. The pattern is dark purple diamonds on a lilac ground. The triangular painting is shades of bright green, evoking vegetation, and the composition is split down the middle.

Visual Art: Rodney McMillian

The authors, artists, and performers featured in BOMB’s summer issue model what making art can be in 2026. Their practices offer new methods to sustain creativity and support healing, engage language as a means of salvation, and mine personal and national histories with empathy and wit. The poetry and prose in our summer issue consider a range of subjects, from mysterious ailments to locker room conflicts to the last gringo president of the US.

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