Daniel Fitzpatrick makes the case that everyone’s favorite Christmas Elf, Buddy, is a modern-day Dante.

While All the Earth in Darkness Sleeps; The Ghosts in the Machine: Spotify’s Plot Against Musicians; Out of the Vortex; The Big Five Publishers Have Killed Literary Fiction; Black Elk's Gift of Healing; T.S. Eliot and Abraham Lincoln: Christian Humanists

We’ll be publishing our twentieth anniversary edition next year, so you would think by now we’d have that nailed down and distilled into a pithy “elevator pitch.” Still, I found myself recently thinking about our mission again, and how it shapes our journal.

Advent thoughts from Anne Ridler’s poem: “It is good that Christmas comes at the dark dream of the year / That might wish to sleep ever. / For birth is awaking, birth is effort and pain.”