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A Non-Exhaustive List of the Most Iconic Exes in Classic Literature
A Non-Exhaustive List of the Most Iconic Exes in Classic Literature

With Valentine’s Day and all that comes with it on the horizon, Milena Le Fouillé takes a look not at the greatest lovers in history but at the most iconic exes in classic literature.

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Literature, CultureMilena Le FouilléRebecca, Daphne du Maurier, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë, Wide Sargasso Sea, Mr Rochester, Antoinette Cosway, contributor post, contributor posts, The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas, Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby, Merteuil and Valmont, Dangerous Liaisons, Les Liaisons dangereuses, Pierre Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos, Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, popular, Milena Le Fouillé, Valentine's Day Comment
Scent and Story: Perfumes for Your Favorite Literary Characters
Scent and Story: Perfumes for Your Favorite Literary Characters

“One of the things I love most about perfume is its transformative power — on a level most people aren’t fully aware of, scent has the power to evoke entire histories and characteristics within seconds, changing our perception of other people and ourselves, and giving us a unique tool for self-expression and disguise.” Perfume Columnist Tariq Hoosen takes us into the pages of favorite books to pair characters with unique scents.

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Beauty, LiteratureMishka HoosenAnne of Green Gables, Anne's House of Dreams, Anne Shirley, Anna Karenina, perfume, scent, scent and story, perfumes as characters, characters as perfumes, literary characters, classic literature, literary characters as perfumes, Portrait of a Lady, Editions de Parfums Frederic Malle, Puck, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Lolita Lempicka, Katherine Clifton, The English Patient, Vol de Nuit, Mishka Hoosen, contributor post, Tariq HoosenComment
Subverting Sleeping Beauty: How My Year of Rest and Relaxation Deconstructs the “Woman Who Sleeps”
Subverting Sleeping Beauty: How My Year of Rest and Relaxation Deconstructs the “Woman Who Sleeps”

Milena Glicenstein explores the oddly familiar yet unsettling aspects of My Year of Rest and Relaxation, looking at literary influences and the subversion of fairy tale tropes.

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Literature, Book ReviewsMilena Le FouilléMy Year of Rest and Relaxation, Ottessa Moshfegh, Georges Perec, sleep, A Man Asleep, Un homme qui dort, fairy tales, fairy tale tropes, sleeping women in fairy tales, Sleeping Beauty, The Brothers Grimm, Sole, Luna, e Talia, Sun, Moon and Talia, winter, Giambattista Basile, Yasunari Kawabata, House of Sleeping Beauties, Anne Sexton, popular Comment
What We’re Reading, Vol. 5
What We’re Reading, Vol. 5

As we reach the height of winter and begin settling into a new year, Attic members share the stories that have them cozying up to the radiator this month.

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LiteratureThe Attic On EighthAnne Therese Fowler, Tara Isabella Burton, Edith Wharton, Anne de Courcy, literature, What We're Reading, A Well-Behaved Woman, The Fulness of Life, The Muses's Tragedy, The Husband Hunters, Alva Vanderbilt, The Gilded Age, The Glimpses of the Moon, Old New York, Social Creature, The House of Mirth, popular, Raquel Reyes, Olivia Gündüz-Willemin, Lauren Olmeda, Rory Mara, Rachel TayComment
What We're Reading, Vol. 4
What We're Reading, Vol. 4

As December rushes by, the Attic editors settle down with their books, some revisiting holiday classics and others discovering harrowing non-fiction.

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LiteratureThe Attic On EighthJane Eyre, Charles Dickens, Giving Up the Ghost, What We're Reading, John Singer Sargent, literature, Berkeley Books, Madame X, A Christmas Carol, Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking, Henry James, Charlotte Brontë, popular, Hillary Mantel, Strapless, The Wings of the Dove, Eliza Campbell, Olivia Gündüz-Willemin, Raquel Reyes, Lauren Olmeda, Rory MaraComment
Intoxication for the Ear: Christmas Music from the Past
Intoxication for the Ear: Christmas Music from the Past

“What the lyrics to these carols contain is a kaleidoscope of images — a hare, a tree of life, christ winning humanity in battle, an eagle bearing a lover away, a spotless rose. Listening to them, the winter glows with light and fantasy until the light comes back. “

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Culture, Holiday, LiteratureMadeline BakerChristmas, Christmas music, holidays, holiday music, December, medieval, medieval music, medieval inspiration, The Medieval Baebes, The Sixteen, Corpus Christi Carol, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Benjamin Britten, Contributor Post, Middle English Lyrics, Anonymous 4Comment
“What is that noise now? What is the wind doing?"
“What is that noise now? What is the wind doing?"

Accompanied by an original illustration by Rachel Tay, Eliza Campbell addresses the November spirit while contemplating Ruth Negga as Hamlet, Hozier’s recent ‘Movement,’ and a passage from T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Wasteland.’

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Culture, Creative, LiteratureEliza Campbellculture, poetry, T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland, Hozier, Movement, Hamlet, Ruth Negga, Dublin, Ophelia, November, October, Autumn at the Attic, Beowulf, illustration, artwork, Rachel Tay, Eliza Campbell, favorite, HalloweenComment
What We're Reading, Vol. 3
What We're Reading, Vol. 3

The Attic on Eighth Editors round up their November reads. 

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LiteratureThe Attic On EighthContemporary Literature, literature, books, Sally Rooney, Amor Towley, Mr. Salary, Mr Salary, Amor Towles, Normal People, Six of Crows, Leigh Bardugo, The Monk of Mokha, Dave Eggers, The Witches of New York, Ami McKay, To All the Boys I've Loved Before, P.S. I Still Love You, Jenny Han, Olivia Gündüz-Willemin, Raquel Reyes, Lauren Olmeda, Rory Mara, Eliza CampbellComment