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Winner of the National Magazine Award for Essays and Columns, and a fourteen-time finalist. Named the best magazine of 2022 by Alta.

The Believer has come home! After a half decade away, the award-winning Believer is back at McSweeney’s. Subscribe now, and four times a year, you will receive, in perfect-bound print, all the articles, interviews, reviews, poems, and columns you’ve grown to love, plus a host of brand-new features, reportage, games, puzzles, and more. You will have the opportunity to study up close the beautiful illustrations, the short- and long-form comics, and the work of our regular raft of guest artists and photographers. You can pore over each issue’s two-page vertically oriented schema spread, more or less unreproducible online. You will enjoy the feel of the sumptuous recycled acid-free heavy stock paper against your hands, fingertips, and face.

Here’s a preview of what you’ll find coming your way

The Believer Issue 154
Inside our summer issue: Hannah Kingsley-Ma tends to her unruly backyard garden in Sunset Park, Brooklyn; Claire Vaye Watkins reports from the final Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah; Alfred Jung Lee writes in praise of description for description’s sake; and Leah Mensch joins the search to secure a home for the archives of the late writer Kate Braverman. We have interviews with Broad City co-creator Abbi Jacobson; National Book Award–winning writer Sigrid Nunez; filmmaker Ira Sachs; and South African poet laureate Mongane Wally Serote; along with an excerpt from Requiem for Gaza—a forthcoming book by Pulitzer-winning journalist Chris Hedges and genre-defining cartoonist Joe Sacco.

In addition, Alexander Chee shares his favorite tarot decks, M. L. Rio pays tribute to Open All Night by the one-hit wonder The Georgia Satellites, and 2026 Guggenheim fellow John J. Lennon sketches the contours of a writing life inside Sing Sing Correctional Facility. Plus, Nick Hornby returns with thoughts on new books by Patrick Radden Keefe and Louise Kennedy; Andrea Bajani describes the perfect place to dine alone; and Peter Orner compares an accidentally terrifying children’s birthday party to the world of Pedro Páramo, while Argentine cartoonist Liniers imagines a new cover for the book. Also within these pages: poetry, small-press reviews, a new game series from Tamara Shopsin, an escape from Art Basel Miami Beach, and more.

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IMPORTANT LOGISTICAL INFORMATION: All subscriptions to The Believer purchased before July 31 will begin with issue 154. Please note that this is a subscription and may take up to six weeks for your issue to arrive. All subscriptions automatically renew after four issues at a cost of $55. In the event of any future rate changes, we will notify you via email. If you’d like to cancel your subscription at any time prior to its auto-renewal, you can log in to your account and adjust your subscription settings. Or send an email to [email protected] with the subject line “End Believer Autorenew.” Refunds will be accepted only up until the first issue of your renewal is shipped. Any subscription purchased with the “gift” option marked at checkout will not be enrolled in autorenew.

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