Believer Magazine #154

A magazine of interviews, essays, and reviews.

Inside our summer issue: Hannah Kingsley-Ma tends to her unruly backyard garden in Sunset Park, Brooklyn; Claire Vaye Watkins reports from the final Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah; Alfred Jung Lee writes in praise of description for description’s sake; and Leah Mensch joins the search to secure a home for the archives of the late writer Kate Braverman. We have interviews with Broad City co-creator Abbi Jacobson; National Book Award–winning writer Sigrid Nunez; filmmaker Ira Sachs; and South African poet laureate Mongane Wally Serote; along with an excerpt from Requiem for Gaza—a forthcoming book by Pulitzer-winning journalist Chris Hedges and genre-defining cartoonist Joe Sacco.

In addition, Alexander Chee shares his favorite tarot decks, M. L. Rio pays tribute to Open All Night by the one-hit wonder The Georgia Satellites, and 2026 Guggenheim fellow John J. Lennon sketches the contours of a writing life inside Sing Sing Correctional Facility. Plus, Nick Hornby returns with thoughts on new books by Patrick Radden Keefe and Louise Kennedy; Andrea Bajani describes the perfect place to dine alone; and Peter Orner compares an accidentally terrifying children’s birthday party to the world of Pedro Páramo, while Argentine cartoonist Liniers imagines a new cover for the book. Also within these pages: poetry, small-press reviews, a new game series from Tamara Shopsin, an escape from Art Basel Miami Beach, and more.

Editors: Daniel Gumbiner / Vendela Vida
Publisher: McSweeney's Books
Pages: 128pp
Size: 8.5 x 10
Notes: perfect bound, color
Cover Date: Summer 2026
ISBN: 978-1963270723