To take part in this year’s Believer Book and Poetry Awards Readers’ Survey, email us at [email protected], telling us the three works of fiction and/or poetry you thought were the finest—the most affecting, the best written—of 2014. The results will be printed in our summer issue.
ANNOUNCING THE EDITORS’ SHORT LISTS FOR
The Eleventh Annual Believer Book Award
and
The Fifth Annual Believer Poetry Award
— IN THIS ISSUE —
A River Runs Through It
by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah
A Biography of Jimi Hendrix's Electric Lady Studios, Its Ownership, and Other Black Memories
Kumail Nanjiani
[COMEDIAN, ACTOR]
interviewed by Jane Marie
“That’s when I told my parents, ‘Hey! Good news/bad news. Actually, for you guys, bad news/good news? I dunno, anyway: I’m in love with a white girl and she’s in a coma. I don’t know how you’re going to take either of those.’”
Encounter with the Infinite
by Robert Schneider with Benjamin Phelan
How Did the Minimally Trained, Isolated Srinivasa Ramanujan, with Little More than an Out-of-Date Elementary Textbook, Anticipate Some of the Deepest Theoretical Problems of Mathematics—Including Concepts Discovered Only after His Death?
Dian Hanson
[SEXY-BOOK Editor]
interviewed by Elina Shatkin
“Men like breasts. They’re friendly and warm, like puppies.”
What the Swedes Read
by Daniel Handler
The Undeserving River: A new poem
by John Ashbery
How to Follow a Recipe
by Tamar Adler
All Across the Desert Our Bread Is Blooming!
by Lisa Wells
I was asking Jesus to guide me to a living bread, and by God, he did. I ended up right in the middle of it.”
The Process
by Sara Roffino
Comics
edited by Alvin Buenaventura
Everything We Can See in the Universe Glows: A new poem
by Jynne Dilling Martin
Perpetually Awaiting a Rebirth of Wonder
by Steven Boyd Saum
Observations of life along the borders during Ukraine’s elections last May.
You'll Never Write About Me Again
by Livia Manera Sambuy
A relationship that caused the journalist to ask herself, “Would I be able to avoid betrayal and still produce serious work?”
Robert Crumb
interviewed by Dan Nadel
Zainab Salbi
interviewed by Jonathan Meiburg
What We Talk About When We Talk About Virality
a Symposium review by Stephen Burt
Lifestyles of the Gluten-Intolerant
a Symposium review by Theodore Gioia
Tomorrow's Epidemic of Forgetting, Today
a Symposium review by Colin Dickey
The Brutal Democracy of AIDS
a Symposium review by Nicole Pasulka
Roz Chast
interviewed by Joanne Furio
The Craft Talk: A new poem
by Rae Armantrout
Stephin Merritt
interviewed by Ross Simonini
Stuff I’ve Been Reading
by Nick Hornby
Readings for Space Tourists
by Marc Katz
...and more.
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THE ORGANIST
A monthly podcast from THE BELIEVER and KCRW
This whole episode (our season one finale) is a conversation between Lena Dunham and Judy Blume, in Blume’s Manhattan apartment.
Also: We asked Lena Dunham to help us score the interview, and we made this mixtape of the songs she suggested. The mix complies songs Lena thinks go well with the interview, as well as music she’s currently listening to.
THE LATEST FROM THE LOGGER
Summer Issue available for preorder
Visit the McSweeney’s store to order your copy, or subscribe now to begin with the issue, which features new work by Álvaro Enrigue, Nell Zink, Jeannie Vanasco, Rae Armantrout, Elisabeth Donnelly, Mary Mann, Bob Hicok, Bijan Stephen, Gary Greenberg, and many more.
New From the Logger
Jeannie Vanasco on seeing and artificial eyes.
Alice Whitwham talks to Rachel Cusk.
A new poem by Nick Flynn.
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