The Believer

[ghost of miles]

I've never particularly cared for the Dave Eggers/McSweeney's school of writing--always found it willfully cute & cloying/annoying, to tell you the truth--but lately I've been picking up back issues of the Believer, and it's actually the first new magazine I've been excited about in a long time. The February issue featured articles on Walker Percy, Yukio Mishima, minstrelsy, and debut novels, as well as interviews with Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Elaine Pagels, and Mike Davis (! of CITY OF QUARTZ fame). The Nov. 2003 issue, which I picked up the next day, had an article on Cornell Woolrich and an interview with David Foster Wallace. Definitely worth checking out if you're a lover of books:

TheBeliever

[John B]

The only reason I have heard of this magazine previously is that my sister's boyfriend wrote an article in an issue last year. I enjoyed what I read of it but have yet to pick up another issue.