Born in Bosnia, Elvis Bego fled the war there at age twelve and now lives in Copenhagen. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in AGNI, The Best American Essays, Granta, New England Review, The Threepenny Review, Tin House, and elsewhere. He is at work on a novel and also a story collection, which is almost complete.
Food
Fall 2023
Our House
In our house there are twenty-seven rooms. In those twenty-seven rooms tick seven hundred and twenty-nine clocks. My father says I should come visit, it’s been so long. For days, […]
Spring 2016
Janus
Listen, it was in his twenty-seventh year that my poor brother Gael—the red sheep of the family, which is why Papa had sent him up the mountain to think some more of it all in the divided house of our grandparents