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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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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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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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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In her latest book review, Rachel Tay celebrates Ottessa Moshfegh’s newly released Death In Her Hands and considers what reading about solitude does to the mind in lockdown.
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As June 2020 advances, The Attic on Eighth keeps turning to our books to sharpen our minds, open our eyes, and keep our emotions as empathetic as we can.
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In this monthly piece, Attic writers and editors get together to share what it is they’re reading this February.
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“For, in Hurricane Season, one is never drawn out of a twister and into a fairytale. Rather, in its terrific torrent of trauma, deceit, desire and greed, only the cruel lashes of failure and poverty remain.” Writer Rachel Tay reviews Fernanda Melchor’s Hurricane Season.
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In her latest for the Attic, Madeline Baker reviews Lauren Elkin’s Flâneuse and considers how the author translates the privileged position of the flâneur – traditionally a well-dressed man of no profession who would wander and wonder around a city, taking things in and contemplating them – to cultural female icons.
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As a favorite Attic novel becomes yet another film, we’re getting into everything to do with Little Women and Louisa May Alcott. In this classic Attic on Eighth piece, we discuss the novel and its most recent adaptation by Greta Gerwig.
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Continuing our series with the books that made our 2019, Sam Cohen talks reading goals and standout titles.
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As 2019 comes to an end, we consider the reading that defined each of our years. In this piece, Jessica Armstrong looks back at the novels that carried her through the end of her English degree and into her first year post-graduation.
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As 2019 comes to an end, we consider the reading that defined each of our years. In this first piece, Amy Richardson looks at a year of fewer but more impactful reads.
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