Subscribe to The Believer

Get a year in your inbox for $48 →

Featured

The Process: James Spooner, The Afropunk Festival

By Ayize Jama-Everett

An Interview with Rachel Monroe

By Sarah Marshall

My god, it's been so long

By Kelcey Parker Ervick

Tool: Marpac Dohm Classic White Noise Sound Machine, $44.95

By Rita Bullwinkel

James Spooner lived Afropunk. First the film, then the concert. Afro-Punk, the 2003 documentary ...

The Process: James Spooner, The Afropunk Festival

By Ayize Jama-Everett

"A lot of people find true crime relaxing—because it lets us off the hook: not only does it ...

An Interview with Rachel Monroe

By Sarah Marshall

By Kelcey Parker Ervick

Features: Adjustable volume and tone Dampens barking Comes in four color options: ...

Tool: Marpac Dohm Classic White Noise Sound Machine, $44.95

By Rita Bullwinkel

The Latest

Aug 6

Poetry

Five Poems by Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison

Aug 1

Interviews

A Microinterview with Japanese Breakfast

Attia Taylor

Aug 1

Comics

SOS

Eric Kostiuk Williams

Aug 1

Comics

The Nirvana Shirt

Jeremy Massie

Aug 1

Essays

To Be Continued…

Hanif Abdurraqib

Aug 1

Essays

A Voice More Beautiful Than Blue

Katie Booth

Popular This Week

See More...

Selected Writing

Casey Jarman

The Devil’s Bargain

I. On Motorcycle Island It’s 2 p.m. in Austin, Texas, mid-March: the thick of the SXSW Music Festival. The seven-block stretch of Sixth Street between I-35 and Congress ...

Shuja Haider

The Invention of Twang

Last December, a nineteen-year-old SoundCloud rapper from Atlanta named Lil Nas X released a new track called “Old Town Road.” He tagged the song not as hip-hop, as he had ...

Katie Booth

A Voice More Beautiful Than Blue

I was with my friend Jeff Mansfield, on the porch of a hand-built cabin in Virginia, when I began to realize how little I understood about sound. It was a mild morning two ...