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This week, The Believer won its first National Magazine Award, for Rafia Zakaria’s essay “Water Pressure.” The honor comes after fifteen nominations, and we’re delighted to mark the occasion by lifting the paywall on Rafia’s essay an...
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An Interview with Adam Ehrlich Sachs
The following is excerpted from an interview with Adam Ehrlich Sachs, who recently received a Windham–Campbell Prize for fiction, on the Believer Logger.
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Our summer issue is coming soon
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My Father's Shadow
Below is an excerpt of “My Father’s Shadow,” a new feature by Lauren Markham in Issue 153 of The Believer. Illustration by Kristian Hammerstad.
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Rob Brezsny writes "Free Will Astrology," a syndicated weekly column that appears in publications all over North America, as well as in France, Italy, & Japan.
Author, Professor at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, and co-founder of the Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics
Writer, artist, musician. Author of The Book of Formation. www.rosssimonini.com
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Lauren LeBlanc is a book critic, writer, and editor who lives in Chapel Hill, N.C. A native New Orleanian, she lived in New York City for over 16 years where she worked in book and magazine publishing.
Writer of books and screenplays since the twentieth century.
I'm the author of ten books, including Leave Society, Trip, and Taipei. I live in Hawaii.
Punk whisperer.
Author of PERSONAL DAYS, SAME BED DIFFERENT DREAMS, AN ORAL HISTORY OF ATLANTIS, & THREE TENSES
Author of The Atmospherians and People Collide, a New York Times Critics' Pick and named a best book of 2023 by Vulture, Vogue, and NPR. Satellite coming 2027.
Author “Against White Feminism” 2021 W.W Norton (US) Hamish Hamilton (UK) Pushcart winner for Prose 2024 Columnist @thebafflermag @Dawn.com @cnn https//rafia.substack.com
Poet Laureate of MS from 2016-2021; Professor of English at the Univ. of MS with four teaching awards; Author of 7 books, 3 poetry and 4 prose. Just out: The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs (W.W. Norton).
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