In Issue 145 of
The Believer
,
Meara Sharma
meditates on the life of a largely-forgotten Caribbean writer;
Eula Biss
writes about the challenges of love after apartheid;
Ann Beattie
describes the aesthetic pleasures of arranging short stories; and
Zefyr Lisowski
looks back at the prolific career of trans dollmaker
Greer Lankton
.
We also have interviews with authors
Hernan Diaz
and
Mona Simpson
, podcaster
Monica Padman
, and sportswriter
Marcus Thompson II
, as well as a new comic from
George Gene Gustines
on being a sixteen-year-old letter hack. Plus,
Kent Monkman
finds his “wiggle,”
Susan Steinberg
reflects on
American Psycho
as assigned reading, and
Emma Copley Eisenberg
writes about all that Eastwick, Philadelphia used to be. All this plus newsprung guest columns from
Daniel Halpern
Madeleine Thien
Jenny Slate
-penned trivia, poems, book reviews, a historical survey of art-world pejoratives, and more.