Browsing: Believer

A quarterly column, steady as ever. – – -Books read: Love’s Labour: How We Break and Make the Bonds of Love—Stephen GroszAffairs: True Stories of Love,…

PART I THE BELIEVER: You’ve been in the poetry and publishing worlds for some thirty years now. What changes have you seen in that time? KEVIN…

One Bidoon father’s all-consumingand occasionally illegal efforts to assemble the perfect personal library. – – -When it came to books, my father had absolutely no shame.…

Contradiction and fear at America’s only physical museum of disability – – -DISCUSSED Pennhurst State School and Hospital, Paranormal Investigations, Autism, Eugenics, Dr. Henry H. Goddard,…

– – -FEATURES: Black squares White squares Seeming gibberish – – -Solving a cryptic is a bit like chewing over a confounding poem. Words that begin…

In which an artist discusses making a particular work. – – -I met Richard Ayoade, the brilliant British author of The Unfinished Harauld Hughes, which is…

A QUARTERLY column from Carrie Brownstein, who is better at dispensing advice than taking it – – -Q: I’m an adult. I bathe. And yet people…

At Bombay Beach, a half-ruined former vacation town on the edge of the Salton Sea, absurdist philosophers, artists, and everyday townsfolk have undertaken a postapocalyptic experiment…

Places Charles Johnson’s drawings appeared when he was a young cartoonist: A catalog for a magic company Mimeographed church bulletins The Daily Egyptian The Southern Illinoisan…

“It feels like there’s this river running underneath my whole life. It’s always there; I just have to step into it.” – – -Sheila Heti and…