Reading Naoise Dolan’s Exciting Times and Katie Kitamura’s Intimacies, Rachel Tay explores the unease of moving away from one’s own country and language.
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Media Editor Zoë G. Burnett reviews two documentaries about two women she should have already known about, and you should, too.
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“How do we weather hard times? How do we prepare ourselves for the inevitable, emotional, lonely winter periods in our lives?” Vesna Curlic focuses on the questions at the heart of Katherine May’s Wintering.
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“Detransition, Baby is a book that crackles with life.” Culture Editor Eliza Campbell reviews the book we’re all thinking about.
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From escapist novels to LGBTQA+ history to contemporary non-fiction, The Attic on Eighth writers and editors share what they’re reading this month.
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As a globally unusual year comes to an end and we enter into 2021, we consider the reading that defined each of our 2020s. In this piece, writer Sam Cohen talks about reading as refuge in 2020.
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As a globally unusual year comes to an end and we enter into 2021, we consider the reading that defined each of our 2020s. In this piece, Kiely Schuck looks back at the sixty books that kept her company in a time that didn’t go quite as planned.
Read MoreAs a globally unusual year comes to an end and we enter into 2021, we consider the reading that defined each of our 2020s. In this piece, teacher and writer Sarai Seekamp looks back at the novels that brought her comfort and companionship in the midst of the great unknown.
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Here, to cap off 2020, a few of The Attic’s editors and writers share some thoughts on reading slumps, and the titles that finally got us through it.
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As autumn arrives at its peak, we’re diving back into our books. Here’s what we’re reading this November at The Attic on Eighth.
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Annie Jo Baker explores the comfort found in the gentle monsters of our culture, with the works of Maurice Sendak, Charles Addams, Guillermo del Toro, Neil Gaiman, and more.
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Spooky or not, October 2020 is here and we are reading our way through it!
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Back for 2020, Eliza Campbell is here with a healthy recommendation list for this spooky season, full of actually scary books and films that will scare you all the way to Halloween.
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From a September that doesn’t feel like any other, here’s what we’re reading this month at The Attic on Eighth.
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Looking at the history of authors like Mahlon T Wing, George Eliot, George Sand, and Vernon Lee, Amy Richardson delves into the troubling attitudes behind the #ReclaimHerName initiative from the Women’s Prize for Fiction that strip writers of their intents.
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