Chris Arthur

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Chris Arthur’s most recent essay collection is Hidden Cargoes (2022). He lives in St Andrews, Scotland. Details of his books can be found at www.chrisarthur.org.

  • The three covers to the books discussed in the article below. Text reads: World Literature Today. What to Read Now: Recent Essay Collections, by Chris Arthur

    Recent Essay Collections

    September 2022
    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.…
  • Small raised bed gardens dot the lawn of an empty schoolyard

    Escaping Indoors

    Summer 2019
    Chris Arthur
    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 Room wit…
  • The cover to Reading Life by Chris Arthur

    Reading Life by Chris Arthur

    Chris Arthur
    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 collect…

  • Ars Poetica and the Essay

    March 18, 2015 Chris Arthur
    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,…