Our Summer Series Ends

Our Summer Series Ends

Adam Straus reviews The Militia House

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Nadja Maril interviews Anthony Doyle

12 Essays From Video Games

This week, Mandy Nadyne Clark offered the twelfth and final installment in our summer series, WALKTHROUGH: Essays from/within/about video games. The essay, "There Are Others," is a fitting way to conclude what has been a thoughtful, sometimes playful, sometimes haunting series.In reverse order, I want to highlight our walkthroughs one more time before summer ends: "There Are Others" by Mandy Nadyne Clark, on Grand Theft Auto 5 and the pandemic. "At the Arcade" by Annette deFerrari, on Pac-Man and creative commitment. "As I Command" by Tetman Callis on Missile Command and the late Cold War. "Fulfillment of Destiny" by Daniel Graves, on Destiny and losing one's faith."32 Items on Kingdom Hearts" by Geramee Hensley, on Kingdom Hearts and memory and nonsense."Born Unto Trouble" by Derek Harmening, on Red Dead Redemption, imagination, and growing up."The Different Iterations of the Hero" by Jay Aja, on Dragon Age: Origins, healing, and trauma."Stay on Track" by Alex J. Tunney, on Sonic R, music, and nostalgia."Dawn of All the Days Ahead" by Elena Aponte, on Majora's Mask and grief. "The Face of an Enemy" by Olga Katsovskiy, on Goldeneye 007, storytelling, and imagination."Endless Runner" by Andrew Zubiri, on Counterstrike, brotherhood, and gaming across distance."Killing It" by Hannah Grieco, on Risk of Rain 2 and the difficulty of writing.We already have loose (even crumbly) plans for next year's summer series, but for now, I hope you can revisit the twelve essays above. I love how writers responded to the prompt with such dexterity of subject matter and form and style, all around the same premise, these immersive, interactive games that range from narrative artistry to analogue-era machinery. In the meantime, I hope you keep writing. The world needs it.Peace,Keene ShortEditor-in-ChiefAtticus Review

THIS WEEK AT ATTICUS

WALKTHROUGH 12

THERE ARE OTHERS

by Mandy Nadyne Clark

BOOK REVIEW

Adam Straus reviews HE MILITIA HOUSE by John Milas

"The incoherence of the wartime experience is often framed as an issue of understanding. This book flips that approach on its head, heightening the actual incoherence of deployment to the point where the reader and narrator are every bit as confused as the civilians back home as to what, actually, is going on."

 

NEW FROM THE ATTIC

AN INTERVIEW WITH ANTHONY DOYLEby Nadja Maril"The Hibernacula are the effects of a dystopian reality, but they have a utopian quality to them too. There’s the germ of something new and potentially special in the ruins of the old world."

ISSUE FOUR SPOTLIGHT

AN ANCHOR TO THE WORLDby Mario Aliberto III

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