The Believer
McSweeney's, Ed Park, Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, Astra Taylor, Michelle Tea, Amanda Fortini, Elif Batuman, Melissa Febos, Madeleine Watts, Katie Gee Salisbury, Tony DuShane, Ross SimoniniA quarterly literature, arts, and culture magazine.
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How to Walk Around New York
The following is excerpted from “How to Walk Around New York,” an essay by Amy Fusselman following filmmaker John Wilson, director of the new documentary The History of Concrete. The essay originally appeared in Issue 142 (Summer 202...
Good Shepherds
The following is excerpted from “Good Shepherds,” an essay by Meghan O’Gieblyn from Issue 125 of The Believer. Illustration by Tony Millionaire.
Deep-learning systems comprise neural networks, circuits of artificial nodes tha...
Les Nobélisables: Mircea Cărtărescu
The following is excerpted from the fifth installment of Ricardo Frasso Jaramillo’s new guest column, Les Nobélisables, a series on this year’s ten most gambled-on Nobel contenders and their sometimes uneasy relationships with litera...
Hodgmina
The following is excerpted from “Hodgmina,” an essay by John Hodgman from Issue 6 of The Believer. Illustration by Tony Millionaire.
Here is something true that I have observed regarding people who have written books: their c...
An Interview with China Miéville
The following is excerpted from Lou Anders’s interview with science-fiction author China Miéville for Issue 23 of The Believer. Illustration by Charles Burns.
THE BELIEVER: You tend to leave your villains unpunished and more...
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Author of SAME BED DIFFERENT DREAMS. New titles: THREE TENSES out 8/11/26, THE REPAIRER OF REPUTATIONS out 9/29/26.
researching on art and tech.
Author of a growing pile of books, occasional documentary filmmaker, and the co-founder of the Debt Collective. End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World, co-authored with Naomi Klein, out in September.
Amanda Fortini is a writer and editor who divides her time between Las Vegas, Nevada, and Livingston, Montana. She is currently writing a book about Las Vegas.
I write books slowly.
I'm the bestselling author of five books, including Girlhood, Body Work, and The Dry Season.
Writer. Novels THE INLAND SEA (2021) and ELEGY, SOUTHWEST (2025). Other writing, here and round about. NYC/Berlin, perpetual Australian.
Writer and photographer based in Brooklyn. Anna May Wong expert and author of Not Your China Doll. Proud mixed race Asian. Plushie collector. Sunday gardener.
Ghostwriter, Novelist, Screenwriter. I live and breathe storytelling. www.tonydushane.com
Writer, artist, musician. www.rosssimonini.com
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