The Believer
McSweeney's, Michelle Tea, Katie Gee Salisbury, Tony DuShane, Petya K. Grady, Madeleine Watts, Amanda Fortini, Elif Batuman, Nicholas Russell, Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, Astra Taylor, Hanif Abdurraqib, Ed ParkA quarterly literature, arts, and culture magazine.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Daily |
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| Issues | 151 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 7 days ago |
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Interstate Highway System
The following poem first appeared in Issue 132 of The Believer, then made its way into The Best American Poetry 2021. Now it appears in Adam O. Davis’s new Raz-Shumaker Prize–winning collection, Pyrrhic Symphony, out today. Congratul...
Silvia Federici in Conversation with Astra Taylor
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Missed Encounters with the Movies
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Lasagna Nation
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An Interview with Rachel Cusk
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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
Book crazy. \ud83e\udd13\ud83d\udcda❤️
Writer. Novels THE INLAND SEA (2021) and ELEGY, SOUTHWEST (2025). Other writing, here and round about. NYC/Berlin, perpetual Australian.
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.
las vegas. contributing writer at defector, freelance for many other publications. debut novel OBSERVER forthcoming from ecco 09.15.26
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.
Author of SAME BED DIFFERENT DREAMS. New titles: THREE TENSES out 8/11/26, THE REPAIRER OF REPUTATIONS out 9/29/26.
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