FORMA Journal

May 2021

Knowing the Worst

The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene | Richard Greene | W. W. Norton & Company

May 31, 2021 • Sean Johnson

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March 2021

Interview: Gracy Olmstead on Rootlessness, Small Towns, and City People

Her new book, "Uprooted: Recovering the Legacy of the Places We’ve Left Behind," calls us to value places that our society is leaving behind.

Mar 31, 2021 • David Kern

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Notes on Form: The Elegance of Wallace Stevens

For Stevens elegance was a pathway to the divine, but it also reminds us that the divine may be just one more product of the imagination

Mar 13, 2021 • James Matthew Wilson

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February 2021

Two Trains Running

Survivors: Children’s Lives after the Holocaust | Rebecca Clifford | Yale

Feb 26, 2021

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The Beauty of the Second Power

Aesthetics (2 Volumes), Dietrich von Hildebrand Legacy Project

Feb 18, 2021 • James Matthew Wilson

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January 2021

Re-Enchanting Abandoned Language

The Lost Spells | Robert MacFarlance, illus. Jackie Morris | Anansi International

Jan 12, 2021 • David Russell Mosley

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What Makes a Fully Realized Poem?

How the dialectical, the dialogical, and the dramatic create an openness that allows art to flourish

Jan 5, 2021 • James Matthew Wilson

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December 2020

Solzhenitsyn: A Voice for When History Repeats Itself

Solzhenitsyn and American Culture: The Russian Soul in the West | Ed. David P. Deavel and Jessica Hooten Wilson | Notre Dame

Dec 16, 2020 • Heidi White

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What You Eat Is What You Think (And Perhaps Vice Versa)

Eat, Drink, Think: What Ancient Greece Can Tell Us About Food and Wine David Roochnik | Bloomsbury

Dec 9, 2020

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November 2020

When Fires Rage Turn to Stephen Pyne

The Still-Burning Bush | Stephen Pyne | Scribe

Nov 24, 2020 • John Wilson

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Amateur Apostle: On Ninety-Five Years of Robert Farrar Capon

Capon is best-known for his food writing but all of his work is shot through with his Chestertonian view of God as a jovial Romantic.

Nov 16, 2020 • Sean Johnson

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