&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:The_Believer_200910.jpg) October 2009 issue, Vol. 7, No. 8. Cover illustration by Charles Burns. The cover depicts, clockwise from the upper left, Vlad Țepeş, Fidel Castro, Agnès Varda, and Jonathan Ames. | |
| Categories | Literature |
|---|---|
| Frequency | 6 per year |
| First issue | March 2003 |
| Company | McSweeney's |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 1543-6101 |
The Believer is an American bimonthly magazine of interviews, essays, and reviews, founded by the writers Heidi Julavits, Vendela Vida, and Ed Park in 2003. The magazine is a five-time finalist for the National Magazine Award.
Between 2003 and 2015, The Believer was published by McSweeney's, the independent press founded in 1998 by Dave Eggers. Eggers designed The Believer's original design template. Park left The Believer in 2011, with Julavits and Vida continuing to serve as editors. In 2017, the magazine found a new home, moving from McSweeney's to the Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute, an international literary center at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
In October 2021, The UNLV College of Liberal Arts announced that the February/March 2022 issue of Believer would be the final issue published.[1] UNLV then sold the magazine to digital marketing company Paradise Media, which in turn sold it back to its original publisher, McSweeney's,[2] where it resumed print publication.
- ^ Maher, John (20 October 2021). "The 'Believer' Magazine Will Fold Next Year". Publishers Weekly. ISSN 0000-0019. Archived from the original on 19 November 2021. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
The Believer magazine will publish its final issue under the auspices of the Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute (BMI), which is hosted by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) College of Liberal Arts, next year: Issue No. 139 is scheduled to be published in February/March of 2022. UNLV called the decision to kill the publication "part of a strategic realignment within the college and BMI as it emerges from the financial impact of the Covid-19 pandemic."
- ^ "What Happened to The Believer?". The New York Times. May 16, 2022. Retrieved May 16, 2022.