There are two ways to purchase past The Believers issues:
For an individual issue you can purchase them at the Destination: Books Alibris Store. Each issue is $5 and shipping and handling is an additional $4 to $5. Only single issues are sold this way. The screen grab artwork demonstrates the best way to search the Alibris site for a specific magazine. If you go to the Destination: Books Alibris Store and look under "literary collections" you will see all The Believer issues we carry.
or
You can pay for multiple issues via Paypal. Contact me murray.browne AT gmail.com, list which issues you want and I will send you an invoice. The prices are:
- $5 for the first issue plus $5 for shipping and handling.
- $5 for each subsequent issue but shipping and handling is still only $5 total.
For example, the total for 2 issues is $15, 3 issues is $20,...10 issues is $55.
Small print: Offer is good for addresses in Continental United States and packages are sent via USPS Media Mail. Georgia residents must add 8% sales tax. The magazines are in good shape with only a couple exceptions which are mentioned in the individual listings. No refunds, but if the customer is not satisfied then I'll issue a comparable trade out from the Destination: Books Catalog.
For complete Table of Contents of each issue see The Believer Issues Page.
Available Past Issues
2009 & 2010
Issue #61, March/April 2009 – The Film Issue (does not include DVD), but does have a conversational interview with Sam Mendes and Heidi Julavits (some minor highlighting) and another interview with John Sayles.*
Issue #66, October 2009 – Music columns from Greil Marcus, Jack Pendarvis’ monthly column and an advice column from Louis C.K.
Issue #72, June 2010 - Music column from Greil Marcus, Jack Pendarvis’ monthly column and an advice column from Rose McGowan.
Issue #73, July/August 2010 – The Music Issue. I still hope of the find the CD, which was mixed in Wonderland in Atlanta. There are some markings on several pages (sorry). Articles: “I Wish I Knew How it Would to be Free” (The Secret Diary of Nina Simone).
Issue #75, October 2010 - A conversation with Barry Hannah. A conversation with Director David Fincher.
2011
Issue #77, January 2011 - Music column from Greil Marcus, Jack Pendarvis’ monthly column and an interview with Michael Ondaatje.
Issue #78, February 2011 – “The Dead Chipmunk: An Interrogation into the Mechanisms of Jokes” by Chris Bachelder.
Issue #80, May 2011 – “Red Eden: When We All Move to Mars, Will We Be Happier” by Nathanial Rich.
Issue #81, June 2011 - Interviews with comic journalist Joe Sacco and photographer Lena Herzog. “In the Atomic City” by Millicent G. Dillon.
Issue #83, September – Interview with Jason Schwartzman, Conversation between Don DeLillo and Bret Easton Ellis, “Orthodox Chic” (Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish Women) by Meaghan Winter.
Issue #84, October 2011 – Jonathan Lethem essay on Postmodernism, Interview with Steve Carrell.
2012
Issue #86, January 2012 – Interview of Laurie Anderson, An essay about erasure literature, challenging the ideas of authorship, originality and influence by Jeannie Avanasco.*
Issue #87, February 2012 – Sherman Alexie in conversation with Neko Case. “Atomic Bread Baking at Home” by Aaron Borrow-Strain.
Issue #90, June 2012 – Interview with Sophie Calle, “Schema: The Harley-Davidson in American Culture”
Issue #92, September 2012 – Interview with food critic Jonathan Gold, “Eddie is Gone: The Life and Death of Surf Legend Eddie Aikau.
2013
Issue #96, February 2013 – An examination of the movies that fed the fantasia of the Third Reich, An interview with Jeffrey Eugenides.*
Issue #97, March/April 2013 - Margo Jefferson on James Baldwin, An interview with radio artist Joe Frank.
Issue #99, June 2013 – Alan Moore interviewed by Peter Bebergal, An interview with Joyce Carol Oates.
Issue #100, July/August 2013 – The Music Issue.
Issue #101, September 2013 – Interviews with Edward Albee and Margaret Cho.
Issue #102, October 2013 – A look at the political, personal, and familial reasons for Dave Chapelle’s return home to Yellow Springs, Ohio.
2014 & 2015
Issue #104, January 2014 – Judy Blume in conversation with Lena Dunham, “Remote Control: Tonya Harding, Nancy Kerrigan, and the Spectacles of Female Power and Pain” by Sarah Marshall.
Issue #105, February 2014 – “Everything is Going to Be Ok: What a 1994 Branding Fiasco Can Teach Us About Counterculture and Commerce” by Michael Schulman.
Issue #107, May 2014 – A conversation with Chuck Palahnink, “Mr. Nhem’s Genocide Camera” (Cambodia’s Museum of Atrocity).
Issue #112, Summer 2015 – A conversation with Lev Grossman and Charles Yu. An interview with Robert Coover.*
There were no issues published between the Fall of 2015 and August/September 2017.
* These back issues are not even available on The Believers' website.