Atticus Review

04/20/2024

We are in a state of transition. We are always all in a state of transition. Here's a note from the Publisher, David Olimpio, on what's to come over the next several months at Atticus Review...

A note from our Publisher

04/20/2024

Our spring issue is out now! Go get you some poetry and !

Issue Seven

04/02/2024

"This Was Back in the Typewriter Days": An Interview with Rick Ardinger

"People who do our taxes each year don’t understand why we’re doing the press. It makes no fiscal sense. Some people have boats and cars, some have good causes they devote their money to. Limberlost is ours."

https://atticusreview.org/34590-2/

03/30/2024

"Episodic Memory Pervades": An Interview With Ricardo José González-Rothi

"The horse, like I was, is aware of its surroundings, the dangers and distractions, but the blinders allow it (and me) to focus on the road ahead, moving forward."

https://atticusreview.org/episodic-memory-pervades-an-interview-with-ricardo-jose-gonzalez-rothi/

03/26/2024

IDENTITY IN THE NATURAL WORLD: Andrew Squitiro’s LOCAL WEATHER
by Geoff Watkinson

"Neither the reader nor the narrator has rational answers to these questions. But it's the questions that aren’t asked, directly, that lurk in the backdrop of the lyricism."

https://atticusreview.org/identity-in-the-natural-world-andrew-squitiros-local-weather/

03/09/2024

"Daydreaming More Than Analyzing and Memorizing": Mariam Ahmed in Conversation With Brent Ameneyro

"I don’t believe writers become politically charged through peer influence or academic indoctrination, at least that wasn’t the case for me. I think writers tend to be inherently sensitive, acutely aware, and can’t help but point out when language is weaponized."

https://atticusreview.org/mariam-ahmed-in-conversation-with-brent-ameneyro/

03/04/2024

Open Eyes, Open Hands: Tenacity and Grief in Renee Emerson’s CHURCH LADIES
by Ian Williams

"This undercurrent of sacrifice cannot help but yield to a deeply and constantly felt grief that permeates this collection."

A book review by Ian Williams.

02/22/2024

When he spoke, his voice sounded like the radio. He was asking for assistance, but he was not asking her. He was asking no one in particular. He simply said, looking up at the wall, “Perhaps someone could enumerate the distinguishing specifications of the latest machine.”

ALMOST NOTHING
by Shaya Kadouri

Fiction from Issue Six

Fiction by Shaya Kadouri.

02/20/2024

STILL TIME
by Patrick Swaney

Poetry from Issue Six

https://atticusreview.org/still-time/

02/19/2024

FICTION'S TRUTH
D. E. Lee reviews True Fiction by Sohrab Homi Fracis

"Does emotional impact affect us more than startling fact? A story is known to be true by the reaction it engenders. The content may be irrelevant. What never happened may be true."

https://atticusreview.org/fictions-truth/

02/13/2024

"Climbing is tricky on the newly slippery branches. After what she’s done, she’s tired, too. But when morning comes, she’s sitting in her favorite crook high up, leaning against the trunk."

TREE OF GLASS
by Kris Faatz

Fiction from Issue Six

Flash fiction by Kris Faatz.

02/12/2024

BOOK REVIEW: Louise Kennedy's THE END OF THE WORLD IS A CUL DE SAC
by Lisa Seidenberg

"One can feel the palpable presence of that dusty shed and the dreary dampness of the Irish weather permeating her lungs as she breathes it in."

A book review by Lisa Seidenberg.

02/05/2024

BOOK REVIEW: Holly M. Wendt’s HEADING NORTH
by Nicole Hylton

"Here is a novel that interrogates identity, language, culture, and grief with two deeply compelling protagonists and earnest prose. Here is a novel that centers the experiences of women and q***r men, two identities often marginalized by the hypermasculine, heteronormative sports world. Here is the novel I have been looking for for the last six years."

https://atticusreview.org/book-review-holly-m-wendts-heading-north/

02/02/2024

"She stands stock-still as she says it and looks more real than usual, like a dream. Closer to the bone than I care to be, as brutal as nature itself. "

A NATURAL HISTORY
by Hannah Weber

Creative nonfiction from Issue Six

Hannah Weber

01/31/2024

WHILE RIDING TO WORK
by Eliot Khalil Wilson

Poetry from Issue Six

https://atticusreview.org/while-riding-to-work/

01/29/2024

Hey Friends, David Olimpio here... I'm back as the Owner and Publisher of Atticus Review. Here's the most recent Weekly Atticus which explains the change. In a nutshell it is this:

1. Atticus Review, a publication/property of Notsolinear Productions, LLC is now a separate entity from Atticus Books & Music
2. The amazing Editors and Staff of Atticus Review, along with the publication schedule, etc are all the same
3. I'll be putting my energy into a sibling publication that will publish poetry on the blockchain; more on this to come

I'm eager to get back into this world and start building new things!

A Note From David Olimpio

01/29/2024

THEY DO THE ARTISTS IN DIFFERENT VOICES
a book review by Zachary Martin

"Goluboff and Luebbers have chosen as their subjects artists, especially photographers, who are enmeshed in questions about perspective and framing."

https://atticusreview.org/they-do-the-artists-in-different-voices/

01/17/2024

"The Angel Gabriel brings me back a floor lamp that is too tall even for the tallest room in my apartment. No amount of angelic calculation or distortion can make it fit. "

TWO ANGEL GABRIEL FLASH PIECES
by Frances Klein

Fiction from Issue Six

Flash fiction by Frances Klein.

01/16/2024

Book Review: Danielle Chapman's HOLLER
by J.G.P. MacAdam

"Much of Chapman’s prose carries an ironic, antithetical quality to it, as though her own memory is composed of lockboxes unlatched, of family myths refuted before being reauthenticated, of seemingly incompatible elements yet sharing the same sentence, the same breath, the same identity."

https://atticusreview.org/book-review-holler/

01/11/2024

"we wade through the thicket of long leaves and thorns,
intricate shrubs intertwined with their long branches"

MY MOTHER WHO FOLLOWS ME INTO THE BUSH
by Jonathan Chibuike Ukah

Poetry from Issue Six

A poem by Jonathan Chibuike Ukah.

01/10/2024

"My ear rests on Eulalie’s skin. Below, I can hear whooshing, like gusts of wind. I try again, whispering, 'Who will you be?'"

EXPECTANT BODIES
by Anna Cabe

Fiction from Issue Six

Fiction by Anna Cabe.

01/09/2024

"The navel is a knotty center that won’t be undone. Even dinosaur fossils show this imprint of connection."

THE CORD AND THE GOOD MOTHER LIZARD
by Calley Marotta

Creative nonfiction from Issue Six

Creative Nonfiction by Calley Marotta.

01/08/2024

A Journey of Longing: Richard Ford's BE MINE: A FRANK BASCOMBE NOVEL

by Stephen Newton

"Although their relationship is often strained, it is laced with humor, sarcasm, love, and their shared appreciation and enthusiasm for the absurd."

A book review by Stephen Newton.

01/05/2024

Happy New Year, submissions are officially open in all genres!
https://atticusbooks.submittable.com/submit

01/04/2024

"It won’t make sense just yet,but, when older,
I’ll explain how worlds can mesh,
how, when we inspect a violet bloom"

THE NATURAL WORLD
by Johnny Kovatch

Poetry from Issue Six

A poem by Johnny Kovatch.

01/03/2024

DRY BED
by Alexis Macnab

Fiction from Issue Six
https://atticusreview.org/dry-bed/

12/09/2023

"An Enormous Capacity for Breadth": Christine Ma-Kellams in Conversation With Gail Schwartz

"A well-known Canadian le***an feminist writer, asked me point blank if I had ever considered making it into a novel. It terrified me but also liberated me, because I was far more interested in a fictional character than my own life."

https://atticusreview.org/an-enormous-capacity-for-breadth-christine-ma-kellams-in-conversation-with-gail-schwartz/

11/29/2023

We're thrilled to announce our Pushcart Prize nominations for 2023!