NEW YORK (AP) — A highly praised and proudly off-beat literary magazine, where contributors have ranged from Nick Hornby and Anne Carson to Leslie Jamison and Daniel Handler, is changing ownership. The Believer, a San Francisco-based publication and five-time finalist for the National Magazine Award, has been purchased by the Black Mountain Institute at The University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The Believer was founded in 2003 by authors Vendela Vida, Ed Park and Heidi Julavits, with a commitment "to journalism and essays that are frequently very long, book reviews that are not necessarily timely, and interviews that are intimate, frank and also very long." In any era, it's a challenge to make a paper magazine work, especially a literary and arts magazine like The Believer that, by design, takes few ads.