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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“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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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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As summer comes to its peak, we’re sharing the books that have made an impact on us this August.
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In her latest book review for The Attic on Eighth, Rachel Tay turns to Sophie Mackintosh’s Blue Ticket and addresses the topics of choice around motherhood, aided by the work of Jacqueline Rose in Mothers.
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Reviewing Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half, Olivia Gündüz-Willemin delves into topics on colorism, power in family dynamics, and unbreakable bonds.
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Turning to literature set in polar climates, Hannah Armstrong attempts atmospheric escapism but considers the ways in which society follows us everywhere.
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As the world spins madly on, we’re still here, reaching towards our bookcases and making our ways through our ever-expanding TBR stacks. What we’re reading this month at The Attic on Eighth…
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Teacher M. A. McCuen shares a list of favorite joyful YA novels centered around Black protagonists, featuring books by Elizabeth Acevedo, Angie Thomas, Ibi Zoboi, and more.
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