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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…
Chris Arthur
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.…
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…
March 18, 2015Since 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,…
