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San Francisco, California, USA
The Believer is a quarterly American magazine of arts and culture featuring long-form essays, profiles, interviews, comics and poetry, published by McSweeney's.
The Believer was founded in San Francisco in 2003 by writers Heidi Julavits, Vendela Vida and Ed Park, and was originally published by McSweeney's, the independent press founded by Dave Eggers in 1998. Park left the magazine in 2011. In 2017, financial pressure led McSweeney's to transfer the magazine to the Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, funded by philanthropist Beverly Rogers. In 2021, editor-in-chief Joshua Wolf Shenk resigned following a widely reported incident, and UNLV announced later that year it would shut the magazine down after a final issue. UNLV then sold The Believer to digital marketing company Paradise Media, a decision that drew public criticism; within months, Paradise sold the magazine back to McSweeney's, which relaunched it as a print quarterly in late 2022.
The Believer has been a five-time finalist for the National Magazine Award and has published contributors including Hilton Als, Anne Carson, Nick Hornby, Eula Biss, Leslie Jamison and Zadie Smith; its recurring "Stuff I've Been Reading" column by Nick Hornby was collected into several McSweeney's books.
Co-founders: Heidi Julavits, Vendela Vida, Ed Park
Publisher: McSweeney's
The Believer serves readers of literary and cultural journalism, distributed through subscriptions and available in select bookstores nationally.
Publisher
McSweeney's, San Francisco, California
Website
https://www.thebeliever.net