Rochester, Massachusetts. Eastover Press. 2024. 304 pages.What Is It Like to Be Alive? is the question Chris Arthur ponders in this collection of fourteen seemingly unconnect…
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What I like about essays is their sheer unpredictability and exuberance, their limitless range of subject matter, the way in which, within short compass, they give access to all kinds of perspectives.…
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Photo: Stuart Lime Digital In a series of vignettes, essayist Chris Arthur considers why “respecting what gives life is not a lesson to be learned indoors.” In E. M. Forster’s A…
- Mobile, Alabama. Negative Capability Press. 2017. 202 pages.Chris Arthur knows what an essay is: an attempt to reach a further, transcendent understanding through writing. Chris Arthur’s 2017 collecti…
- Since Horace’s original, many poets have written their version of an Ars Poetica. The best known is Archibald MacLeish’s. Can MacLeish’s poem cast light on the art of a different literary genre,…