Wholesale The Believer 150 (Summer 2025)

From Illustoria's parent publishers at McSweeney's Inside the landmark 150th issue of The Believer, Shruti Swamy reports on the alleged abuses of her childhood guru Swami Rama, a man powerful enough to stop his own heart; Paul Collins attempts to read the largest newspaper of all time; Rafia Zakaria follows her father on his infuriating quest for water and power in Karachi, Pakistan; and, forty years after he first attended Cru’s Winter Conference, David J. Morris returns to observe the hugely popular evangelical organization that influenced his youth. Plus interviews with Lyle Lovett, Sheila Heti, and Charles Johnson; not to mention a comic by Maxime Gérin, columns by Pitchaya Sudbanthad on the sordid tourism of a once mythic Thai beach, Nora Lange on Weekend at Bernie’s, Joan Silber on her daily routine, and Nick Hornby on Susie Boyt’s latest novel. All this plus a very special letters section, and a super-size index cataloging every essay, interview, and schema ever published