![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Leah, a marine biologist with an infectious love for the sea’s mysteries, finds herself trapped in a malfunctioning submersible at the ocean floor while her wife, Miri, is left alone and without answers. The novel opens on a deep-sea expedition gone awry. Anchored in the ebb and flow of Miri and Leah’s alternating narratives, the novel chronicles the married couple’s efforts to live in the midst, and wake, of a crisis that defies easy explanation. “Every horror movie ends the way you know it will.” And what is love, Julia Armfield’s debut novel asks, if not a kind of slow-burn horror story-an attempt at living with an unknowable entity tinged, always, by the fear of loss?Īrmfield’s Our Wives Under the Sea is a poignant and unsettling queer Gothic romance, its portrayal of a relationship’s quiet, devastating erosion by turns melancholy, grotesque, surreal, and sublime. ![]()
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![]() In extreme cases, they use God’s authority to justify the most depraved crimes. ![]() What is harmful in the Mennonite tradition resembles what’s harmful in any religion-when religious leaders use the authority of God to scold, shame, punish, silence, and shun people. Why did you leave the Mennonites? What aspects of that tradition were most harmful?Īctually, it was one of my uncles who removed me from church membership. They do a lot of good work to help the needy and, of course, to promote peace and pacifism. Mennonites also emphasize loyalty and community. With respect to Mennonite teachings, I appreciate the ideas behind adult baptism: willing and conscious acceptance of Jesus and purifying oneself of pride. There was a certain comfort in that, at least when I was a kid. Everyone knew who my parents were, who my grandparents were, and where I lived. Read our latest issue or browse back issues. ![]() ![]() ![]() He responded that he had never heard of Rand, whereupon, as he writes, “somebody presented me with paperback copies of her two major novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged-the latter more than 1,000 pages long.” Delving into the former, Wilson found himself “immediately put off by the rhetorical tone of the opening,” which he quotes: “Howard Roark laughed. He first became conscious of Rand’s work while lecturing in America in the autumn of 1961 university students would ask him his opinion about her. ![]() The British writer Colin Wilson gives a typical account. This spectacle is the book’s secret, which the present essay aims to investigate. No account of Ayn Rand’s (1905–1982) sprawling, morally incoherent end-of-the-world story Atlas Shrugged (1957) can begin elsewhere than in an acknowledgment of the way in which the novel’s fascinating spectacle can draw a reader in despite himself. “When the SS torturer becomes the villain of the war film, he is turned into a sacrificial figure, a scapegoat, structural equivalent of the Jud Süss in Nazi cinema.”-Eric Gans victory over desire, victory over Promethean pride.”-René Girard ![]() ![]() ![]() Most of her historical novels fall into two general categories: biographical novels about queens, among them Anne Boleyn, Isabella of Castile, and Catherine of Aragon and novels set in East Anglia centered around the fictitious town of Baildon (patterned largely on Bury St. ![]() However, the murders still show characteristic Norah Lofts elements. Norah Lofts chose to release her murder-mystery novels under the pen name Peter Curtis because she did not want the readers of her historic fiction to pick up a murder-mystery novel and expect classic Norah Lofts historical fiction. She also published using the pseudonyms Juliet Astley and Peter Curtis. Lofts was born in Shipdham, Norfolk in England. Many of her novels, including her Suffolk Trilogy, follow the history of a specific house and the residents that lived in it. ![]() She wrote over fifty books specialising in historical fiction, but she also wrote non-fiction and short stories. Norah Ethel Robinson Lofts Jorisch (27 August 1904–10 September 1983) was a 20th century best-selling British author. ![]() ![]() ![]() Owen remembers Auburn from somewhere and thinks seeing her again feels like fate. Afterward, he brings her to the bar where his best friend Harrison works and then walks her home. He hires her to work during the opening scheduled that evening. She learns that the anonymous confessions outside are the inspiration for his paintings. There is immediate chemistry between them. Auburn knocks on the door and Owen, the artist, opens it and invites her inside. She comes across a help-wanted sign at an art studio, and many confessions are posted next to it. ![]() She needs a lawyer but can’t afford one and acknowledges she’ll need a second job. The narrative jumps forward and Auburn is now 20, alone and miserable in Dallas. They express their eternal love for each other before Trey, Adam’s brother, pulls her away so she’ll make her flight back to Portland. She is at the hospital in Dallas to say goodbye to her boyfriend and first love, Adam, who is dying from cancer. The book opens when the protagonist, Auburn, is 16 years old. ![]() This guide also quotes and obscures the use of the F-word. ![]() This guide refers to the 2015 Atria Books edition of Confess.Ĭontent Warning: Confess contains scenes portraying addiction, sexual assault, and domestic violence. ![]() |