The Believer, Issue 116

The Believer’s mission is to introduce readers to the best and most interesting work in the world of art, culture, and thoughtwhether that means literature, painting, wrestling, philosophy, or cookingin an attractive vehicle that’s free from the bugbears of condescension, mustiness, and jargony obfuscation. Its content (including essays, interviews, comics, poetry, and reviews) offers fresh perspectives from an ever-changing cast of writers and artists, and each issue includes the popular columns Stuff I’ve Been Reading,” by Nick Hornby, and What the Swedes Read” (a look at Nobel Prize-winners), by Daniel Handler.