Name: The Baffler & The Believer Double Issue Launch
Start: 2024-10-11T19:00:00
End: 2024-10-12T00:00:00
Location: Francis Kite Club

Celebrate the new issues of two of the finest and most thought-provoking magazines in print.&nbsp;The Baffler&nbsp;and&nbsp;The Believer&nbsp;will be at The Kite to toast our latest releases!In “<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://thebaffler.com/issues/no-75">Facing the Future</a>,”&nbsp;The Baffler&nbsp;considers the political consensus that never came, with essays on left-wing populism, campus culture clashes, and demographic shifts in the Balkans. The&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/believer-147?taxon_id=1">latest issue</a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;The Believer, meanwhile, dives into electroshock therapy, online chess, and Somali-American basketball — and features columns by Nick Hornby and Carrie Brownstein, plus a sprawling interview with Boots Riley.&nbsp;Both issues will be available, as well as deeply discounted&nbsp;Baffler&nbsp;and&nbsp;Believer&nbsp;subscriptions. Featuring DJ sets from India Ennenga, James Yeh, Andrew Norman Wilson, and Jose Berrio.<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.thebeliever.net/">The Believer</a>&nbsp;isn’t just a thirteen-time National Magazine Award finalist; it’s also one of the most distinct and resilient journals around, running articles, interviews, reviews, poems, comics, schema, reconsiderations, meditations, and more.And since 1988,&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://thebaffler.com/">The Baffler</a>&nbsp;has been serving the kind of criticism and commentary that only independent media can deliver—incisive, undaunted, and totally hype-free stories that challenge the stultifying status quo in politics, culture, and beyond.