Believer Issue 40

Believer Vol. 4 No. 10 Issue 40

Publisher: McSweeneys

The cover depicts, among various anonymous gallerygoers, a woman wearing one of Rosemarie Trockel’s knit caps, a masked child from a Ralph Eugene Meatyard photograph, and Matthew Barney dressed in his (furry, pink) “Entered Apprentice” costume from Cremaster 3. According to Charles Burns (our cover illustrator), Vito Acconci is also depicted, but he’s hidden under the gallery floor, reenacting his famous Seed Bed performance.

The Believer is a monthly magazine where length is no object. There are book reviews that are not necessarily timely, and that are very often very long. There are interviews that are also very long. We will focus on writers and books we like. We will give people and books the benefit of the doubt. The working title of this magazine was The Optimist.

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