The Believer is a monthly magazine where length is no object. It features long articles, interviews, and book reviews, as well as poems, comics, and a two-page vertically-oriented Schema spread, more or less unreproduceable on the web. The common thread in all these facets is thatThe Believer gives people and books the benefit of the doubt (the working title of this magazine wasThe Optimist). On each issue, Charles Burns' beautiful illustrations adorn the cover; a regular raft of writers, artists, and photographers fill the pages; and the feel of the Westcan Printing Group's gorgeous "Roland Enviro 100 Natural" recycled acid-free heavy stock paper warms the reader's heart.