We were a small, mainly agricultural colony and we said all the time, without unhappiness, that we were a dot on the map of the world. It was a liberating thing to be, and we were really very small. There were just over half a million of us. We were racially much divided. On the [...]

The latest from writer Dave Egger’s San Francisco-based Believer magazine.
Okay, er, that piece, the text of a lecture she gave to students at Columbia University is only available online as an abstract. However other features are available in full.
But if you get a chance, buy a copy of the Believer, if only for the magazine’s [...]

It was early Sunday morning when he snuck back into bed, squeezing in beside his wife, arms wrapped around their child, it seemed she had not moved since he had and never noticed his departure. He smiled to himself as he closed his eyes, confident that today, she would not bicker. But she could smell [...]

He rings her doorbell,
And hears the jangling sound,
Echo,
Throughout the house.
His heart thumps loudly in his chest,
Yet he feels no pain;
He is not here.
Already he has untangled himself from the web of confusion,
His former self.
Plans must be made.
Lies unearthed, truths buried,
Alive and screaming like the foolish boy
Who dared
Try to expose them.