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Heidi Julavits
In this honest and provocative book Heidi Julavits examines gender, power and sexuality, engaging with a debate which has never been more relevant than it is today
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A twelve-time finalist for the National Magazine Awards, every issue of The Believer features commentary, deeply reported journalism, poetry, art, essays, and a difficult but ultimately highly enjoyable games section…
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Alice and Edith are sisters, soul mates, and archenemies. Both are expert manipulators–a power that is tested and exploited when their plane is hijacked. The Effect of Living Backwards is…
The author’s third novel is a spooky coming-of-age tale in which 16-year-old Mary Veal disappears from her school, only to reappear a few weeks later claiming to have been abducted…
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'An absolute stunner: frank, funny, self-aware, constantly surprising ... One of the most insightful representations I've read of what it feels like to be alive these days' GEORGE SAUNDERS
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From the acclaimed novelist and The Believer editor comes a wildly imaginative and intense novel about mothers, daughters, and the psychic damage women can inflict on one another. Is the…
A raucous, deliriously smart diary of two years in the life of the incomparable Heidi Julavits.
New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * A sharply observed memoir of motherhood and the self, and a love letter to Maine, by a writer Eula Biss calls "witty…
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In Issue 145 of The Believer, Meara Sharma meditates on the life of a largely-forgotten Caribbean writer; Eula Biss writes about the challenges of love after apartheid; Ann Beattie describes…
In The Believer's 2024 Art Issue: Pepper Stetler reports from an art center for adults with intellectual disabilities that sees both creativity and work as fundamental human rights; Ross Simonini…
In Issue 146 of The Believer Pablo Calvi on the developing controversy around the Wakasa stone--a memorial to a Japanese-American killed at an internment camp in Delta, Utah; Paul Collins…
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A Study Guide for Heidi Julavits’s Marry the One Who Gets There First, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis…
Named the best magazine of 2022 by Alta. Inside issue 141 of The Believer A mystery of literary lineage involving Muriel Rukeyser and Robinson Jeffers; an extensive, reported feature from…
In issue 142 of The Believer, Amy Fusselman trawls the streets of New York for "everyday weirdos" with filmmaker John Wilson; Joshua Hunt treks to the peak of Japan's "Mount…
The Believer's music issue returns! A twelve-time finalist for the National Magazine Awards, every issue of The Believer features commentary, deeply reported journalism, poetry, art, essays, and a difficult but…
Sound the bugles! The Believer is back with McSweeney's! This massive 144-page resurrection issue is packed with highlights. We have essays from Rafia Zakaria, Sarah Marshall, and Ryan Walsh, and…
