I had the pleasure of being introduced to Elissa Washuta at the Port Townsend Writers Conference in July 2019. On the Olympic Peninsula, the days were sunny and the mornings……
I corresponded with Paul Lisicky during the spring of 2020 as the pandemic caused everyone to stay at home. Each time I emailed him to schedule an interview, it was……
In her second feature film, twenty-two-year-old Joyce Meadows starred as Sally Fallon, the levelheaded and good-humored fiancée of an atomic scientist (played by B movie stalwart John Agar). Directed by……
Jeannie Vanasco has written two unconventional memoirs that explore her life experiences. In her second work, Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl (2019), she interviews the……
My initial encounter with Robert Thurman was during the early 1990s at a former Boy Scout camp located in the middle of the Michigan woods. This was the yearly summer……
Ingrid Lafleur, the transformative Detroit-based artist, curator and political organizer, recently engaged in a lively conversation with Rasheedah Phillips, a Philadelphia-based lawyer, community organizer, and science-fiction writer. The two discussed……
In late May 2020, at the very beginning of the George Floyd protests, Niela Orr, one of The Believer’s deputy editors, asked Ismail Muhammad, the magazine’s criticism editor, for advice……
Morehshin Allahyari, an Iranian artist, has devoted her long-term art project, She Who Sees the Unknown, to reviving stories of female/queer djinn in Islamic culture that have been neglected or……
This conversation was co-organized by The Believer and the 2018 Texas Book Festival, and occasioned by the publication of Sandra Cisneros and Liliana Valenzuela’s Puro Amor (Sarabande Books), a bilingual……
