Heidi Julavits

A Pair of True Believers, Each With Her Own Aesthetic

Heidi Julavits and Vendela Vida, co-founders of <i>The Believer</i>.
C. Yoshiko Han
Heidi Julavits and Vendela Vida, co-founders of The Believer.

Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name, by Vendela Vida. Ecco, 226 pages, $23.95.  read more »

Kinder, Gentler Lit Crit, With Tips on ‘Real Life’

Remember when literary criticism was a frightening discipline, austere and combative?  read more »

Hot, Nude, Wet, Naked Ambition: The Believer Staff

the naked believers

Because no caption accompanied the photo with Heidi Julavits' essay on hot-tubbing it in Northern California yesterday in the New York Times' T magazine, The Transom wondered: who are these nubile young literary folk depicted in the buff?  read more »

Apparently it was supposed to go unnoted that some of the nude party animals were the staff of Ms. Julavits' magazine, The Believer.

Unaccounted for: the dark-haired woman standing in center, back looks a lot like Believer copy editor Sarah Manguso. And goddamn if the guy bottom, right doesn't bear a resemblance to Dave Eggers. — Choire Sicha

Entertainment, Weakly:My Evening With The Nice Believer Kids

If there were gay marriage, the gang that publishes The Believer could pass for the adorable adopted  read more »

Hunting Snark: Heidi Julavits Stomps a Virus

Heidi Julavits, the 35-year-old co-editor of The Believer , the new Dave Eggers–sponsored literary  read more »