A Reading List for Laura

by Chris Arthur

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This piece is part of our Winter 2023 print issue, available for purchase here.

Chris Arthur

Chris Arthur is a Northern Irish writer currently based in Scotland. He’s author of several essay collections, most recently What is it Like to be Alive? Fourteen Attempts at an Answer (2024). Further information about his work can be found on his website (www.chrisarthur.org), and on his page at the Royal Literary Fund (https://www.rlf.org.uk/writer/chris-arthur/).

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CSKA – Lveski

by Josip Novakovich

Following the Day of Liberty, March 3, in Sofia, with a few impressive explosions right outside my window, on Tsar Osvoboditel — a kind of imitation of St. Petersburg’s Nevsky Prospekt complete with a huge Cathedral, Alexander Nevsky, at the end of the street — on March 4, I heard explosions again, and looked out the window to see a huge parade of people in red.

Winter 2017

A Wilder Agenda

by Jenny Forrester

My brother told me I should write stories without an agenda. “You should write something everyone will enjoy – something like Holes or Secondhand Lions,” he said. Holes, by Louis Sachar, is about a prison camp for children. It’s a novel where, back in time, one of only two black characters in the book was

Summer 2016

Milk, Oil, and a Night of Tequila

by Adriana Páramo

This piece is part of our Fall 2018 print issue.

Fall 2018 Print Issue

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