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Where Is the Art House? (Part V) - Believer Magazine

The Believer @thebeliever.net · 22h

"The Quays are chiefly known for their distinct use of stop-motion, with its junk drawer, slightly Mütter Museum aesthetic."

Our guest columnist Chris Molnar visits Film Forum for a showing of Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by the Quay Brothers.

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When I told him that I had just seen the new Quay Brothers at Film Forum, my friend (and one of The Believer’s early film writers) B. Kite surprised me by lapsing into reverie, describing his first tr...

The Last Resort - Believer Magazine

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The Believer @thebeliever.net · 1d

"A struggling town next to a dying sea is not exactly a place you’d expect to encounter a cultural renaissance, counter- or otherwise."

—Ash Sanders on a community of radical artists on the edge of the Salton Sea

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Listen to this story: It is easy to miss California’s biggest environmental disaster. Driving north on Highway 111, you wouldn’t expect to find an inland sea. If it’s summer, the thermometer in your c...

Fall 2025 - Believer Magazine

The Believer @thebeliever.net · 1d

See the full lineup of essays, articles, and interviews featured in our fall issue, now available online and in print.
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A Microinterview with Kevin Young - Believer Magazine

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The Believer @thebeliever.net · 1d

“I think what poems can’t do is prepare you. What they can do is accompany you. And that was sort of what they did for me.”

—Kevin Young, interviewed by @nickhilden.bsky.social

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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 YOUNG: I think poetry itself has broadened and deepened. ...

The Labyrinth - Believer Magazine

The Believer @thebeliever.net · 4d

“My father believed that rich people did not, and could not, read. If they were wealthy, then they must be happy. If they were happy, why would they read?”

—Mona Kareem on her father’s pursuit of a perfect personal library

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When it came to books, my father had absolutely no shame. On his first day at the ten-day Kuwait International Book Fair, he’d pile stacks of books at a publisher’s booth and ask him to keep the books...

Excerpts from The Believer: Ask Carrie: Fall 2025

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Today's Excerpt from our pals over at @thebeliever.net is more sound advice from Carrie Brownstein.

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 keep gi...

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The Believer @thebeliever.net · 4d

"Those people you can turn to and high-five, those relationships are special."

—Laura van den Berg, interviewed by @rokwon.bsky.social

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An Interview with Laura van den Berg - Believer Magazine

The first time I read Laura van den Berg’s stories in her debut collection, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, I was astonished. The stories, teeming with disaster and fantast...

A Review of A Mountain to the North, A Lake to the South, Paths to the West, A River to the East - Believer Magazine

The Believer @thebeliever.net · 5d

Congratulations to 2025 Nobel laureate László Krasznahorkai!

Visit our website to read Laura Preston's review of his recent novella:

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An Interview with Jamila Woods - Believer Magazine

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The Believer @thebeliever.net · 5d

"While making Water Made Us, I had a long period of wandering. It was stressful because I was like, Why is this taking so long? But I realized I had to let myself surrender to the time that the process takes."

—Jamila Woods, interviewed by Sam Sax

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Jamila Woods is a polymath: a multi-hyphenate artist, a teacher, a student, a singer, and your favorite poet’s favorite musician. Born and raised in Chicago, Jamila has released three critically accla...

Vanessa Bell Is Not at Home - Believer Magazine

The Believer @thebeliever.net · 5d

"Both Woolf and her older sister, Vanessa Bell, knew well the dangers of becoming stuck in that role, forever passing tea and buns about the room, never speaking beyond decorum’s limits."

— @heatherchristle.bsky.social essay on Bloomsbury artist Vanessa Bell

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In Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway, which celebrated its centennial in May, the title character remembers a friend mocking her years before; the young Clarissa had the makings, jeered Peter Walsh...

Where Is the Art House? (Part V) - Believer Magazine

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The Believer @thebeliever.net · 6d

"The film’s richly visualized, narratively-sparse mixture of stop-motion with some live-action is really its own beast, acting as a technological step forward."

—Chris Molnar on a new film from the Quay Brothers

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When I told him that I had just seen the new Quay Brothers at Film Forum, my friend (and one of The Believer’s early film writers) B. Kite surprised me by lapsing into reverie, describing his first tr...

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The Believer @thebeliever.net · 6d

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The Believer @thebeliever.net · 6d

"It’s the deranged heights to which Assayas pushes the ghost story in Shopper that makes it one of his best."

Chris Molnar attends an Olivier Assayas retrospective at the Metrograph. Read his review here:

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Where Is the Art House? (Part IV) - Believer Magazine

In the balcony of the old warehouse at 7 Ludlow, we are having trouble getting through. It’s pitch black as the movie begins, and the barrier is knee-high, and the fellow near us is trying to explain ...

The Haunting of Pennhurst - Believer Magazine

The Believer @thebeliever.net · 6d

“There has been no comprehensive effort to memorialize America’s hundreds of former state institutions.” One state school, now a museum by day and haunted attraction by night, attempts to strike a delicate balance between memorialization and spectacle.

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I arrived at Pennhurst on an unusually warm fall day. As I walked across the parking lot, the administration building was the first thing to greet me. An impressive redbrick monument of Jacobean reviv...

Place: The Nukus Museum of Art - Believer Magazine

The Believer @thebeliever.net · 7d

"The museum was a revelation. Works by painters whose names I’d never heard of depicted Uzbek grazing lands in improbable shades of pink and blue."

—Michael Snyder on the the Nukus Museum of Art

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FEATURES: Ossuary jars Anti-revolutionary painting Toxic dust Solastalgia It was a cold, dry night in April, and a crowd had gathered in the center of Nukus, the capital of the Central Asian Republic ...

Fall 2025 - Believer Magazine

The Believer @thebeliever.net · 7d

Have you read through all of the fall '25 issue yet? Check out the full offerings here:

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An Interview with Chung Seo-kyung - Believer Magazine

The Believer @thebeliever.net · 7d

"When I write stories, I always ask myself, Could this story have happened to people one or two thousand years ago? I want to put the forces or powers that existed a thousand years ago into stories set in a modern context."

—Chung Seo-kyung

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Chung Seo-kyung may be an unfamiliar name even to those who are deeply familiar with her work, which includes cult-favorite Korean films like Lady Vengeance (2005); I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OK (2006);...

The Last Resort - Believer Magazine

The Believer @thebeliever.net · 7d

"When we asked people about the Salton Sea, everyone told us the same things: First, the sea was in serious trouble; and second, if we wanted to understand it, we had to meet Irondad."

—from "The Last Resort," an essay by Ash Sanders

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Listen to this story: It is easy to miss California’s biggest environmental disaster. Driving north on Highway 111, you wouldn’t expect to find an inland sea. If it’s summer, the thermometer in your c...

An Interview with Debbie Harry and Chris Stein - Believer Magazine

The Believer @thebeliever.net · 8d

“In most cases I’m threatening myself by putting my shit out there for somebody to step on, or step in. That’s what performance is all about.”

—Debbie Harry of @blondieband.bsky.social, interviewed by Emma Ingrisani

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As my plans to interview Debbie Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie for The Believer first took shape, billboards sprang up, as if on cue, around Manhattan. Sprawled several stories high was Harry’s imag...

A Review of On the Calculation of Volume (Book III) - Believer Magazine

The Believer @thebeliever.net · 8d

"On the Calculation of Volume is ultimately about time, in all its guises—time as change and repetition, as history and memory, as materiality and disappearances."

—Meghan Racklin on Book III of Solvej Balle's series

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The Believer @thebeliever.net · 8d

Two days until this exciting event with Daniel Handler and Andrew Sean Greer at the Sydney Goldstein Theater. Get your tickets here: www.cityboxoffice.com/ordertickets...

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An Interview with Jamila Woods - Believer Magazine

The Believer @thebeliever.net · 8d

"I think music has a healing ability to bring us from the space of what we know to what we don’t know."

—Jamila Woods, interviewed by Sam Sax

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Jamila Woods is a polymath: a multi-hyphenate artist, a teacher, a student, a singer, and your favorite poet’s favorite musician. Born and raised in Chicago, Jamila has released three critically accla...

Place: The Nukus Museum of Art - Believer Magazine

The Believer @thebeliever.net · 11d

"He spent the next decade collecting textiles, jewelry, and carved wooden trunks that Karakalpak people in hamlets across the region had hidden away... Villagers knew him, affectionately, as 'the junkman.'"

—Michael Snyder on the founder of the Nukus Museum

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FEATURES: Ossuary jars Anti-revolutionary painting Toxic dust Solastalgia It was a cold, dry night in April, and a crowd had gathered in the center of Nukus, the capital of the Central Asian Republic ...

Ask Carrie: Fall 2025 - Believer Magazine

The Believer @thebeliever.net · 11d

“A bar of soap is but a cantaloupe.”

An aphorism coined by Carrie Brownstein in her latest advice column. Learn the meaning behind this beguiling phrase in her Fall 2025 installment of Ask Carrie:

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Q: I’m an adult. I bathe. And yet people keep giving me soap. My mom slipped a bar into my Easter basket this year. My best friend gifted me a bourbon-scented soap for my birthday. My dad found some a...