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Agatha Christie's Top 20 Novels
(As chosen by the FORMA editors in honor of her 130th birthday)
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David Kern
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Emily Andrews
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Heidi White
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Ian Andrews
, and 
Sean Johnson
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Some Changes to FORMA
(We're going FREE!)
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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
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James Matthew Wilson
The Beauty of the Second Power
Aesthetics (2 Volumes), Dietrich von Hildebrand Legacy Project
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James Matthew Wilson
Knowing the Worst
The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene | Richard Greene | W. W. Norton & Company
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Sean Johnson
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.
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David Kern
Re-Enchanting Abandoned Language
The Lost Spells | Robert MacFarlance, illus. Jackie Morris | Anansi International
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David Russell Mosley
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Two Trains Running
Survivors: Children’s Lives after the Holocaust | Rebecca Clifford | Yale
What Makes a Fully Realized Poem?
How the dialectical, the dialogical, and the dramatic create an openness that allows art to flourish
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James Matthew Wilson
Recovering Personhood: When Religion and Tradition Still Matter
The Inklings, the Victorians, and the Moderns: Reconciling Tradition in the Modern Age | Christopher Butynskyi | Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
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Anthony Barr
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Poems as Prayers: Malcolm Guite Discusses His Quarantine Quatrains
The English poet, priest, and musician discusses writing poetry during the age of the Coronavirus.
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Heidi White
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Reading Homer in Wyoming
How Homer's epic similes, archetypal characters, and violent scenes come alive on the American wilderness
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