The Believer
McSweeney's, John Hodgman, Melissa Febos, Brad Phillips, Ross Simonini, Patrick Cottrell, Nick HildenA quarterly literature, arts, and culture magazine.
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Rhetor-ick: The Sound Bite
Join us for an evening at City Lights Books this Thursday, November 5th to celebrate the release of Issue 155. Registration is free and in-store seating is first-come, first-serve.
The following is excerpted from the third installm...
An Interview with Angelo Badalamenti
Join us for an evening at City Lights Books on November 5th to celebrate the release of Issue 155. Registration is free and in-store seating is first-come, first-serve.
This Halloween, we’re sharing an excerpt from Frances Badalame...
End Notes: Fat City
Join us for an evening at City Lights Books on November 5th to celebrate the release of Issue 155. Registration is free and in-store seating is first-come, first-serve.
Below is the third installment of Peter Orner’s End Notes colu...
Rhetor-ick: The Ganz Model
The following is excerpted from the second installment of Leah Abrams’s new guest column, Rhetor-ick, a series about how speechwriting works, what it means to speak in public today, who is listening, and how.
For access to all of ou...
The Process: Igor Bezinović, Fiume o morte!, 2025
Below, Mira Kaplan speaks with Croatian filmmaker Igor Bezinović about the making of his 2025 film Fiume o morte! Their conversation appears in Issue 155 (Fall 2026) of The Believer. Still from Fiume o morte! courtesy of Lightdox.
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Judge John Hodgman is on tour
I'm the bestselling author of five books, including Girlhood, Body Work, and The Dry Season.
I’m the author of Essays & Fictions. I’m an artist who makes mostly paintings. My work has appeared in The Paris Review, Playboy, Vice, Granta, The Believer, Purple Fashion Magazine, Bookforum, ArtReview, Aperture, etc etc. . I make dumb t-shirts and
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Denver, CO. author of afternoon hours of a hermit and sorry to disrupt the peace. basketball fan
Culture science & politics writer | Publishers Weekly, Vanity Fair, Washington Post, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Scientific American, Nautilus, Al Jazeera
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