The Believer (magazine)
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Cover of The Believer, April 2005
The Believer is a magazine mainly about literature. Published by McSweeney's out of San Francisco, the magazine also covers other artforms, and features articles about authors, artists, and literary issues of the past and present, often relating to politics and popular culture.
The Believer is published semi-monthly (10 issues per year), sometimes featuring a CD or DVD, and draws on a stable of recurring features including book reviews, interviews, letters from readers, installments from a variety of authors, etc. Illustrations and cartoons are featured throughout the magazine. The cover illustrations are done by Charles Burns, while most of the other portraits and line drawings are by Tony Millionaire (following Gilbert Hernandez from the fifth issue on). Michael Kupperman's Four-Color Comics has appeared in many issues, and in most issues a series of images from a given artist or other source run throughout the articles à la The New Yorker. All issues include a two-page, multi-color feature called "Schema".
[edit] Published issues
| Title | Month | Vol/No | Cover illustrations | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2003 | 1 | 1 | Terry Gilliam, Beth Orton, Salman Rushdie, and Susan Straight | ||
| May 2003 | 1 | 2 | Judith Butler, Ashida Kim, Gary Lutz, and Jack White | ||
| All Is Well | June 2003 | 1 | 3 | Richard Rorty, Liz Phair, Frank Herbert, and Steve Erickson | |
| Steady! | July 2003 | 1 | 4 | John Haskell, Jamaica Kincaid, Jan Potocki, and Martin Short | |
| On Time, All the Time | August 2003 | 1 | 5 | Rudy Giuliani, Shirin Neshat, Adam Phillips, and Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson | |
| Make It So | September 2003 | 1 | 6 | Jenny Gage, a bust of Emperor Augustus, and two versions, one good and one evil, of Andy Richter | |
| Rotunda | October 2003 | 1 | 7 | John Banville, Joan Didion, Jerry Lewis, and Stephen Malkmus | |
| Neckfire! | November 2003 | 1 | 8 | Tina Fey, David Foster Wallace, Cornell Woolrich, and a woman without a face | |
| Cúspide | December 2003/ January 2004 | 1 | 9 | Ice Cube, Aleksandra Mir, Marianne Moore, and the Sweet Valley High twins | |
| Lodestar | February 2004 | 2 | 1 | Philip Seymour Hoffman, Yukio Mishima, Elaine Pagels, and Milana Runjić | |
| Flyerette | March 2004 | 2 | 2 | Dominic Arou, George Saunders, Amy Sedaris, and the titular horse from Black Beauty | |
| Porchcrawlin' | April 2004 | 2 | 3 | Tracey Emin, Errol Morris, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and the state of Iowa | |
| Wodge | May 2004 | 2 | 5 | Ada Byron, Charles Dickens, Dawit Giorgis, and Kiki Smith | Note: there is no Volume 2, Number 4. |
| Cassingle | June 2004 | 2 | 6 | David Byrne, Ani DiFranco, James Joyce, Dory Previn, Q-Tip, Elliott Smith, and Eddie Vedder | First "Music Issue", with CD. |
| Blowsy | July 2004 | 2 | 7 | Shirley Hazzard, Nick Hornby, Danica Phelps, and the titular character of Don Quixote | |
| Carafe | August 2004 | 2 | 8 | Susan Choi, Francisco Goldman, Robert Pollard, and P.G. Wodehouse | |
| Bunshoft! | September 2004 | 2 | 9 | Ian Frazier, Klaus Kinski, George Meyer, and Mary Lynn Rajskub | |
| Carry | October 2004 | 2 | 10 | John Kerry | |
| Hartshorn | November 2004 | 2 | 11 | Walter Abish, Buddy Bolden, David O. Russell, and August Wilson | |
| Rhathymia | December 2004/ January 2005 | 2 | 12 | Eleven artists from L.A.: Tessa Chasteen, Harry Dodge, Francesca Gabbiani, Charles Garabedian, Matt Greene, Stanya Kahn, Tom Knechtel, Nick Lowe, Jennifer Pastor, Mindy Shapero, and Thaddeus Strode | "Art Issue", with DVD. |
| Arable | February 2005 | 3 | 1 | Paul Auster, Eve Sussman, Todd Solondz, and a blue whale | |
| Couchfire! | March 2005 | 3 | 2 | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Marjorie Grene, Mario Van Peebles, and a Wonder Woman action figure | |
| Future Salad | April 2005 | 3 | 3 | Sarah Jones, China Miéville, Stevie Smith, and Carlos Castaneda's head "overrun by doom-vines" | |
| Hoax Fed | May 2005 | 3 | 4 | Teresa Edwards, Steve Martin, The Adventures of Tintin, and Tobias Wolff | |
| Gnash | June/ July 2005 | 3 | 5 | Beck, Donovan, Aimee Mann, Karen O, Daniel Smith, Mark E. Smith, and Smoosh | "2005 Music Issue", with CD. |
| Pressure Face | August 2005 | 3 | 6 | Björk, Dennis Cooper, Ian McEwan, and Zadie Smith | |
| Boomtown | September 2005 | 3 | 7 | Sarah Silverman, Tom Stoppard, Cerebus, and Mark Mothersbaugh | |
| Bitumen | October 2005 | 3 | 8 | David Mamet, Lorrie Moore, David Sedaris, and Nosferatu | |
| Spoonbread | November 2005 | 3 | 9 | Maya Rudolph, William H. Gass, Devendra Banhart, and a doctor peering into James McManus's colon | |
| Pentimento | December 2005/ January 2006 | 3 | 10 | L’Inconnue de la Seine, Olive Oatman, Miranda July, and Laylah Ali | |
| February 2006 | 4 | 1 | Angélique Kidjo, Demetri Martin, Eminem, and Peter Singer | ||
| March 2006 | 4 | 2 | Harold Ramis, Ed Ruscha, Elizabeth Bishop, and Robyn Hitchcock | ||
| April 2006 | 4 | 3 | Sayyed Qutb, Isaac Brock, Paul Giamatti, and Susan Sontag | ||
| Junk of Pork | May 2006 | 4 | 4 | Orhan Pamuk, Nicole Holofcener, Jim White, and a taxidermied wallaby | |
| Gloamin | June/July 2006 | 4 | 5 | Juana Molina, Bun B, Stephen O'Malley, Sid Vicious, Frank Sinatra, and Elvis Presley | "2006 Music Issue", with CD. |
| Lambkinette | August 2006 | 4 | 6 | Jennifer Egan, Marjane Satrapi, Steven Soderbergh, and a rat | |
| Crambo | September 2006 | 4 | 7 | E. Gary Gygax, Nancy, Wanda Sykes, and Georges Perec | |
| Broomcorn | October 2006 | 4 | 8 | Laurel Nakadate, Joe Henry, Alison Young, and a woman living in Gaza | |
[edit] External links
- The Believer, official website
- "Among the Believers" - An article by New York Times' film critic, A.O. Scott about both The Believer (magazine) and n+1, (September 11, 2005).
