Synopsis
The Believer, a ten-time National Magazine Award finalist, is a bimonthly literature, arts, and culture magazine based at the Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute, a department of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. In each issue, readers will find journalism, essays, intimate interviews, an expansive comics section, poetry, and on occasion, delightful and unexpected bonus items. Our poetry section is curated by Jericho Brown, Kristen Radtke selects our comics, and Joshua Wolf Shenk is our editor-in-chief. Issues feature a column by Nick Hornby, in which he discusses the things he’s been reading, as well as a comedy advice column.
About the Authors
The Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute is an international literary center on the campus of UNLV. BMI brings writers and the literary imagination into the heart of public life through publications, live events, fellowships, student enrichment opportunities, and much more.
Evan Allgood has written for The New Yorker, Vulture, McSweeney’s Quarterly, The Millions, Paste, Los Angeles Review of Books, and 3:AM Magazine. He lives in Brooklyn with his rescue dog, Petey. Follow and maybe later unfollow him on Twitter at @evoooooooooooo.
Joshua Bennett is the Mellon Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He is the author of three books of poetry and criticism: The Sobbing School (Penguin Books, 2016), winner of the National Poetry Series and a finalist for an NAACP Image Award; Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man (Harvard University Press, 2020); and Owed (Penguin Books, 2020). Bennett has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ford Foundation, MIT, and the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. His first work of narrative nonfiction, Spoken Word: A Cultural History, is forth- coming from Knopf.
Donald Berger is the author of the poetry collections The Long Time/Die währende Zeit, a bilingual edition in English and German (Wallstein Ver- lag, 2015); and Quality Hill (Lost Roads, 1993). His poems and prose have appeared in The New Republic, Slate, Conjunctions, Colorado Review, Fence, The Iowa Review, and other magazines, including publications in Berlin, Leipzig, Budapest, Hong Kong, and China. He teaches at Johns Hopkins University.
Katharine Halls is an Arabic-to-English translator. Her translation, with Adam Talib, of Raja Alem’s The Dove’s Necklace received the 2017 Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understand- ing and was shortlisted for the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation. Her translations for the stage have been performed at the Royal Court, in London, and at the Edinburgh Festival, in Scotland.
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