The Believer March 2005


Product Code: TB22
Regular Price: $8.00
Sale Price: $4.00

Qty:


The Believer March 2005


Thriller
by Tom Bissell
Stripping the guilt from the guiltily pleasurable literary thriller.

FULL TEXT
Abu Ghraib: A Global Family Portrait
by Jana Prikryl
In the prison abuse scandal in Iraq, the metaphor for the violence of photography has found its skin.

If All Parents Are Bad Parents, What Can We Children Learn from the Children of the Revolution?
by Gregory Gipson
Four new books reveal the radical’s perspective on revolutionary violence.

Mego Crazy
by Tom Bligh
A dispatch from MegoCon 2004, the deadly-serious convention for the greatest action-figure company ever.

Mario Van Peebles
interviewed by Amy Güth
A baadassss director explains why you can stop holding your breath for New Jack City 2.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
interviewed by Eric Spitznagel
The deceased Sherlock Holmes author reveals the truth about mummies, Bigfoot, and minuscule laptops from the afterlife.

Benjamin Weissman
interviewed by Rachel Kushner
Are you strangely consumed by Hitler’s athletic prowess or children with giant ears and veiny torsos? Weissman is here to help.

FULL TEXT
Marjorie Grene
interviewed by Benjamin Cohen
The great-grandmother of philosophy answers our stupid questions about Sartre, hermits, and the cogito.

Alexander Payne
interviewed by Kate Donnelly
The writer/director of Sideways may or may not be planning to run for public office, and we may or may not have all the details inside.

FULL TEXT
The First Annual Believer Book Award

FULL TEXT
Personal Ads for Poets: A Free Service

Eric Chevillard’s Palafox
reviewed by Darren Reidy

FULL TEXT
René Steinke’s Holy Skirts
reviewed by Heather Birrell

FULL TEXT
Curtis White’s The Idea of Home
reviewed by Dan Johnson

Christopher Nealon’s The Joyous Age
reviewed by Stephen Burt

Nick Mamatas’s Move Under Ground
reviewed by Kevin Dole 2

Motel: The Moose River Lodge and Motel
by Amanda Eyre Ward

Bird: The Auk, Great and Little
by Anne Landsman

Stuff I’ve Been Reading
by Nick Hornby

La Zona Fantasma
by Javier Marías

An Excitement of Windows: a new poem
by Dean Young

Schema: The Secret Life of Titles
by Mac Barnett

Four-Color Comics: “Sherlock Holmes Versus Jungle Boy, Part 47”
by Michael Kupperman

McSweeney's Issue 27 McSweeney's Quarterly Concern publishes on a roughly quarterly schedule, and we try to make each issue very different from the last. One issue came in a box, one was Icelandic, and one looks like a pile of mail. In all, we give you groundbreaking fiction and much more.
CURRENT ISSUE »
PREVIOUS ISSUES »
SUBSCRIBE »
The Believer Subscription<br>Beginning with July/August 2008 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. The Believer is printed in four colors on heavy stock paper.
CURRENT ISSUE »
PREVIOUS ISSUES »
SUBSCRIBE »
Wholphin Subscription <br>Beginning with No. 6 Wholphin is a quarterly DVD magazine featuring short films, documentaries, animation, and instructional videos that have not, for whatever reason, found wide release. Recent issues of Wholphin have included films by Spike Jonze, David O. Russell, Miranda July, Miguel Arteta, Errol Morris, and Steven Soderbergh, and performances from John C. Reilly, Selma Blair, Patton Oswalt, Andy Richter, a monkey-faced eel, and many others.
CURRENT ISSUE »
PREVIOUS ISSUES »
SUBSCRIBE »
DOWNLOADS »
McSweeney's<br> and the Believer<br> Subscription Combo For a reduced price subscribe to McSweeney's and Wholphin, to McSweeney's and the Believer, to the Believer and Wholphin, or — yes! — to McSweeney's, Wholphin, and the Believer.
MORE INFO »
PAPER GOODS
PAPER GOODS
GIFT CERTIFICATES
GIFT CERTIFICATES
Related Sites.
McSWEENEY’S INTERNET TENDENCY
THE BELIEVER   •   BELIEVER BOOKS
826 VALENCIA   •   826NYC   •   826LA
826 SEATTLE   •   826CHI   •   826MICHIGAN
The McSweeney’s Store.
ACCOUNT   •   LOGIN   •   CART
MANAGE MY SUBSCRIPTIONS   •   VIEW MY ORDERS     
McSWEENEY’S QUARTERLY   •   THE BELIEVER
COMBO SUBSCRIPTION   •   BOOK RELEASE CLUB
BOOKS   •   GIFTS & MERCHANDISE   •   DVD  •   SUBSCRIBE
ABOUT McSWEENEY’S   •   FAQ   •   JOIN OUR NEWSLETTER
PRIVACY POLICY   •   CUSTOMER SERVICE   •   STORE HOME