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Vendela Vida
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From the acclaimed author of the 2007 New York Times Notable
Book Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name comes a stunning novel
about the love between husbands and wives, mothers and
children.
Twenty-eight years ago, Peter and Yvonne honeymooned in the
beautiful coastal village of Datca, Turkey. Now Yvonne is a widow,
her twin children grown. Hoping to immerse herself in memories of a
happier time--as well as sand and sea--Yvonne returns to Datca. But
her plans for a restorative week in Turkey are quickly complicated.
Instead of comforting her, her memories begin to trouble her.
Overwhelmed by the past and unexpectedly dislocated by the
environment, Yvonne clings to a newfound friendship with Ahmet, a
local boy who makes his living as a shell collector. But a
devastating accident upends her delicate peace and throws her life
into chaos--and her sense of self into turmoil.
With the crystalline voice and psychological nuance for which
her work has been so celebrated, Vendela Vida has crafted another
unforgettable heroine in a stunningly beautiful and mysterious
landscape.
On the day of her father's funeral, twenty-eight-year-old
Clarissa Iver-ton discovers that he wasn't her biological father
after all. Her mother disappeared fourteen years earlier, and her
fiance has just revealed a life-changing secret to her. Alone and
adrift, Clarissa travels to mystical Lapland, where she believes
she'll meet her real father. There, at a hotel made of ice,
Clarissa is confronted with the truth about her mother's his-tory,
and must make a decision about how--and where--to live the rest of
her life.
'Smart, perceptive, elegant, sad, surprising and addictive. And
it's also FUNNY.' Nick Hornby 'What We Run the Tides probes so
poignantly is the volatility of female adolescence... Knowing and
powerfully enigmatic.' Observer Teenage Eulabee and her magnetic
best friend, Maria Fabiola, own the streets of Sea Cliff, their
foggy oceanside San Francisco neighbourhood. They know Sea Cliff's
homes and beaches, its hidden corners and eccentric characters - as
well as the upscale all-girls' school they attend. One day, walking
to school with friends, they witness a horrible act - or do they?
Eulabee and Maria Fabiola vehemently disagree on what happened, and
their rupture is followed by Maria Fabiola's sudden disappearance -
a potential kidnapping that shakes the quiet community and
threatens to expose unspoken truths. Suspenseful and poignant, We
Run the Tides is Vendela Vida's masterful portrait of an inimitable
place on the brink of radical transformation. Pre-tech boom San
Francisco finds its mirror in the changing lives of the teenage
girls at the centre of this story of innocence lost, the pain of
too much freedom, and the struggle to find one's authentic self.
Told with a gimlet eye and great warmth, We Run the Tides is both a
gripping mystery and a tribute to the wonders of youth, in all its
beauty and confusion. 'We Run the Tides is hypnotic, knowing, and
propulsive as it examines girlhood, friendship, and the strong pull
of the past.' Meg Wolitzer
"The Believer"'s mission is to introduce readers to the best and
most interesting work in the world of art, culture, and
thought--whether that means literature, painting, wrestling,
philosophy, or cooking--in an attractive vehicle that's free from
the bugbears of condescension, mustiness, and jargony obfuscation.
Its content (including essays, interviews, comics, poetry, and
reviews) offers fresh perspectives from editors Heidi Julavits,
Vendela Vida, and Andrew Leland. Each issue includes the popular
columns "Stuff I've Been Reading," by Nick Hornby; "What the Swedes
Read" (a look at Nobel Prize-winners), by Daniel Handler; and "Real
Life Rock Top 10," by Greil Marcus. The July/August Music Issue
includes a free CD of new music curated for the magazine, the
March/April Film Issue includes a free DVD of otherwise unreleased
films, and the November/December Art Issue includes a free,
always-changing bonus item.
The "Believer" is a monthly magazine where length is no object.
There are book reviews that are not necessarily timely, and that
are very often long. There are also interviews that are very long.
We will focus on writers and books we like. We will give people and
books the benefit of the doubt. The working title of this magazine
was "The Optimist."
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Believer Issue 143 - Fall 2023
Daniel Gumbiner; Contributions by Vendela Vida, Heidi Julavits, Ed Park
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'Smart, perceptive, elegant, sad, surprising and addictive. And
it's also FUNNY.' Nick Hornby 'What We Run the Tides probes so
poignantly is the volatility of female adolescence... Knowing and
powerfully enigmatic.' Observer Teenage Eulabee and her magnetic
best friend, Maria Fabiola, own the streets of Sea Cliff, their
foggy oceanside San Francisco neighbourhood. They know Sea Cliff's
homes and beaches, its hidden corners and eccentric characters - as
well as the upscale all-girls' school they attend. One day, walking
to school with friends, they witness a horrible act - or do they?
Eulabee and Maria Fabiola vehemently disagree on what happened, and
their rupture is followed by Maria Fabiola's sudden disappearance -
a potential kidnapping that shakes the quiet community and
threatens to expose unspoken truths. Suspenseful and poignant, We
Run the Tides is Vendela Vida's masterful portrait of an inimitable
place on the brink of radical transformation. Pre-tech boom San
Francisco finds its mirror in the changing lives of the teenage
girls at the centre of this story of innocence lost, the pain of
too much freedom, and the struggle to find one's authentic self.
Told with a gimlet eye and great warmth, We Run the Tides is both a
gripping mystery and a tribute to the wonders of youth, in all its
beauty and confusion. 'We Run the Tides is hypnotic, knowing, and
propulsive as it examines girlhood, friendship, and the strong pull
of the past.' Meg Wolitzer
'Part glamorous travelogue, part slow-burn mystery, this
full-bodied tale of a runaway is at once formally inventive and
heartbreakingly familiar... (It's also insanely funny.)' -- Lena
Dunham From the acclaimed author of Let the Northern Lights Erase
Your Name and The Lovers comes a tensely drawn, spellbinding
literary thriller that gets to the heart of what defines us as
human beings-the singular identity we create for ourselves in the
world and the myriad alternative identities that lie just below the
surface. In Vendela Vida's taut and mesmerizing novel of ideas, a
woman travels to Casablanca, Morocco, on mysterious business.
Almost immediately, while checking into her hotel, she is robbed,
her passport and all identification stolen. The crime is
investigated by the police, but the woman feels there is a strange
complicity between the hotel staff and the authorities-she knows
she'll never see her possessions again. Stripped of her identity,
she feels both burdened by the crime and liberated by her sudden
freedom to be anyone at all. Then, a chance encounter with a film
crew provides an intriguing opportunity: A producer sizes her up
and asks, would she be willing to be the body-double for a movie
star filming in the city? And so begins a strange journey in which
she'll become a stand-in-both on-set and off-for a reclusive
celebrity who can no longer circulate freely in society while
gradually moving further away from the person she was when she
arrived in Morocco. Infused with vibrant, lush detail and enveloped
in an intoxicating atmosphere-while barely pausing to catch its
breath-The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty is a riveting, entrancing
novel that explores freedom, power and the mutability of identity.
The Believer, a five-time National Magazine Award finalist, is a
bimonthly literature, arts, and culture magazine. In each issue,
readers will find 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. There are intricate
illustrations by Tony Millionaire and a rotating cast of guest
artists, poems, a comics section, and regular columns by Nick
Hornby and Daniel Handler.In The Believer's fall issue, Pablo Calvi
reports on an oil pipeline that threatens Ecuadorian indigenous
populations, Alex Mar has tea with the Church of Satan's high
priest, Daniel Werb discusses harm reduction in Tijuana, and Esme
Weijun Wang explores living with schizophrenia. Other essays focus
on the anarchist who's quietly fanning the flames of our country's
insurrectionary movements and the irresistibly gothic family whose
middle son is the inspiration behind Bolano's mad-genius poet in
2666. There are poems by Kay Ryan and Kathleen Ossip, in-depth
interviews with Megan Rapinoe, Michael Schur, Jerry Stahl, Sheila
Nevins, Ronald Cotton, and Miranda July, and a special section on
the theme of silence with work by Diane Cook, Sara Novic, Stephen
Burt, Rachel Z. Arndt, Matthew Zapruder, and JW McCormack.
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 that The Believer gives people and books the
benefit of the doubt (the working title of this magazine was The
Optimist). On each issue, Charles Burns's beautiful illustrations
adorn the cover; our 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 your heart.
The Believer's mission is to introduce readers to the best and most
interesting work in the world of art, culture, and thought--whether
that means literature, painting, wrestling, philosophy, or
cooking--in an attractive vehicle that's free from the bugbears of
condescension, mustiness, and jargony obfuscation. Its content
(including essays, interviews, comics, poetry, and reviews) offers
fresh perspectives from editors Heidi Julavits, Vendela Vida, and
Andrew Leland. Each issue includes the popular columns Stuff I've
Been Reading, by Nick Hornby; What the Swedes Read (a look at Nobel
Prize-winners), by Daniel Handler; and Real Life Rock Top 10, by
Greil Marcus. The July/August Music Issue includes a free CD of new
music curated for the magazine, the March/April Film Issue includes
a free DVD of otherwise unreleased films, and the November/December
Art Issue includes a free, always-changing bonus item.
The Believer is a monthly magazine where length is no object. There
are book reviews that are not necessarily timely, and that are very
often long. There are also interviews that are very long. We will
focus on writers and books we like. We will give people and books
the benefit of the doubt. The working title of this magazine was
The Optimist. --The Editors
A Radio 4 Book at Bedtime 'The hottest young writer in US fiction'
-- Guardian When Clarissa Iverton was fourteen years old, her
mother disappeared leaving Clarissa to be raised by her father.
Upon his death, Clarissa, now twenty-eight, discovers he wasn't her
father at all. Abandoning her fiance, Clarissa travels from New
York to Helsinki, and then north of the Arctic Circle - to Lapland.
There, under the northern lights, Clarissa not only unearths her
family's secrets, but also the truth about herself.
The Believer, a five-time National Magazine Award finalist, is a
bimonthly literature, arts, and culture magazine. In each issue,
readers will find 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. There are intricate
illustrations by Tony Millionaire and a rotating cast of guest
artists, poems, and regular columns by Nick Hornby and Daniel
Handler. The annual Music Issue features Karen Tongson on her
namesake, Karen Carpenter, and how the particular whiteness of the
Carpenters' sound took off in the Philippines; Michael Snyder on a
territory in northeast India in which contemporary Christian gospel
is effecting near-total cultural assimilation; Phillip Pantuso on
Guyanese songbird smugglers; Stephanie Elizondo Griest on dancers
who place art above everything else in their lives; and Sandi
Rankaduwa on the evolution of female emcees. There will also be
(among other things) a special section on unreliable songwriters; a
visual examination of Italo Disco's map to humanity's apotheosis
via glitter and robot sex; and interviews with Enya, the LA Phil's
Deborah Borda, punk bassist Mike Watt, rapper and producer Lil B,
and legendary rock muse Bebe Buell.
The "Believer"'s mission is to introduce readers to the best and
most interesting work in the world of art, culture, and
thought--whether that means literature, painting, wrestling,
philosophy, or cooking--in an attractive vehicle that's free from
the bugbears of condescension, mustiness, and jargony obfuscation.
Its content (including essays, interviews, comics, poetry, and
reviews) offers fresh perspectives from editors Heidi Julavits,
Vendela Vida, and Andrew Leland. Each issue includes the popular
columns "Stuff I've Been Reading," by Nick Hornby; "What the Swedes
Read" (a look at Nobel Prize-winners), by Daniel Handler; and "Real
Life Rock Top 10," by Greil Marcus. The July/August Music Issue
includes a free CD of new music curated for the magazine, the
March/April Film Issue includes a free DVD of otherwise unreleased
films, and the November/December Art Issue includes a free,
always-changing bonus item.
The "Believer" is a monthly magazine where length is no object.
There are book reviews that are not necessarily timely, and that
are very often long. There are also interviews that are very long.
We will focus on writers and books we like. We will give people and
books the benefit of the doubt. The working title of this magazine
was "The Optimist." --The Editors
'Part glamorous travelogue, part slow-burn mystery, this
full-bodied tale of a runaway is at once formally inventive and
heartbreakingly familiar... (It's also insanely funny.)' -- Lena
Dunham From the acclaimed author of Let the Northern Lights Erase
Your Name and The Lovers comes a tensely drawn, spellbinding
literary thriller that gets to the heart of what defines us as
human beings-the singular identity we create for ourselves in the
world and the myriad alternative identities that lie just below the
surface. In Vendela Vida's taut and mesmerizing novel of ideas, a
woman travels to Casablanca, Morocco, on mysterious business.
Almost immediately, while checking into her hotel, she is robbed,
her passport and all identification stolen. The crime is
investigated by the police, but the woman feels there is a strange
complicity between the hotel staff and the authorities-she knows
she'll never see her possessions again. Stripped of her identity,
she feels both burdened by the crime and liberated by her sudden
freedom to be anyone at all. Then, a chance encounter with a film
crew provides an intriguing opportunity: A producer sizes her up
and asks, would she be willing to be the body-double for a movie
star filming in the city? And so begins a strange journey in which
she'll become a stand-in-both on-set and off-for a reclusive
celebrity who can no longer circulate freely in society while
gradually moving further away from the person she was when she
arrived in Morocco. Infused with vibrant, lush detail and enveloped
in an intoxicating atmosphere-while barely pausing to catch its
breath-The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty is a riveting, entrancing
novel that explores freedom, power and the mutability of identity.
"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 that The Believer gives people and books the
benefit of the doubt (the working title of this magazine was The
Optimist).
On each issue, Charles Burns's beautiful illustrations adorn the
cover; our 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 your heart.
"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 that the "Believer" gives people and books the
benefit of the doubt (the working title of this magazine was the
"Optimist").
On each issue, Charles Burns's beautiful illustrations adorn the
cover; our 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 your heart.
The Believer's mission is to introduce readers to the best and most
interesting work in the world of art, culture, and thought-whether
that means literature, painting, wrestling, philosophy, or
cooking-in an attractive vehicle that's free from the bugbears of
condescension, mustiness, and jargony obfuscation. Its content
(including essays, interviews, comics, poetry, and reviews) offers
fresh perspectives from editors Heidi Julavits, Vendela Vida, and
Andrew Leland. Each issue includes the popular columns "Stuff I've
Been Reading," by Nick Hornby; "What the Swedes Read" (a look at
Nobel Prize-winners), by Daniel Handler; and "Real Life Rock Top
10," by Greil Marcus. The July/August Music Issue includes a free
CD of new music curated for the magazine, the March/April Film
Issue includes a free DVD of otherwise unreleased films, and the
November/December Art Issue includes a free, always-changing bonus
item. The Believer is a monthly magazine where length is no object.
There are book reviews that are not necessarily timely, and that
are very often long. There are also interviews that are very long.
We will focus on writers and books we like. We will give people and
books the benefit of the doubt. The working title of this magazine
was The Optimist. --The Editors
Each issue of "The Believer" includes essays on pop culture,
politics, art, and music, as well as lengthy interviews with
philosophers, politicians, and poets. Nick Hornby has a widely
celebrated monthly books column, and Amy Sedaris (and well-known
guest-columnists) offers an advice column comprised of hilariously
bad advice. The celebrated graphic novelist Charles Burns
illustrates the cover each month, and the magazine is littered with
illustrations by a wide range of established and emerging artists,
with regulars like Tony Millionaire, Marcel Dzama, and others.
The Believer's mission is to introduce readers to the best and most
interesting work in the world of art, culture, and thought whether
that means literature, painting, wrestling, philosophy, or cooking
in an attractive vehicle that's free from the bugbears of
condescension, mustiness, and jargony obfuscation. Its content
(including essays, interviews, comics, poetry, and reviews) offers
fresh perspectives from editors Heidi Julavits, Vendela Vida, and
Karolina Waclawiak. Each issue includes the popular columns "Stuff
I've Been Reading," by Nick Hornby and "What the Swedes Read" (a
look at Nobel Prize-winners), by Daniel HandlerThe Summer Issue
features new work by Nell Zink, Alvaro Enrigue, and Gary Greenberg;
interviews with Robert Coover, Amber Tamblyn, and the New York
Public Library's Paul Holdengraber; and new poetry by Rae
Armantrout. Also in these pages, and among many other delights,
you'll find a special section on the theme of wildlife, essays on
the man after whom Jim Jones patterned himself and what it's like
to be named after a sibling who died before you were born,
examinations of the work of the artists Ray Johnson and Jimmy
Robert, and the editors' short lists for the eleventh annual
Believer Book Award and the fifth annual Believer Poetry
Award.Table of Contents:Pockets of Resistance Catherine FoulkrodHow
to Send Things to Germany Nell ZinkThe Divine Inspiration of Jim
Jones Adam Morris"Abstract Expressionism": a new poem Andrew
NurkinThe Confidence Man Gary Greenberg"Shooting Possums from the
Back Porch of Roger's Bar": a new poem Michael McGriffWhat's in a
Necronym? Jeannie VanascoA Common Language Kristina
ShevoryDescending Night Elisabeth Donnelly(Untitled) Mary
Mann"Comics" edited by Alvin BuenaventuraEl Vocho: A Familiar
Subject Alvaro EnrigueWhat the Swedes Read Daniel HandlerThe
Eleventh Annual Believer Book Award: Short ListRobert Coover
interviewed by Aaron Shulman"Canary": a new poem Rae
ArmantroutSchema: Top 100 US Drug Brand Names Shoshana AkabasThe
Fifth Annual Believer Poetry Award: Short ListPaul Holdengraber
interviewed by Lane KoivuJimmy Robert interviewed by Jude
StewartSymposium: A discussion on (mostly) books as they relate to
the theme of wildlife.Tim Sheedy on the orangutan, Donna Kozloskie
on the rising floodwaters, Megan Pugh on a poetic doomsday
prophecy, Monica Westin on vegetal being, and Bijan Stephen on
spillover.Elizabeth LeCompte interviewed by Hillar LiitojaAmber
Tamblyn interviewed by Rachel MatlowCharles Yu interviewed by Lev
Grossman
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