Adalbert Stifter’s collection of novellas is long on landscape descriptions and short on climactic events—but his appeal for his more famous contemporaries is strangely understandable.

Paul Mariani invites a host of other poets to his metaphorical table, and then invites us to take a seat and hear what they have to tell us.

Morgan Meis’s highly unusual collection of essays upends expectations in precisely the right ways. Review by J.C. Scharl

Alternative band Half•Alive’s sophomore effort delivers on cool sounds and poetic lyrics—but it lacks the sense of hope that buoyed their first album.

What could have been the takedown of a real-life faith-healing scandal becomes instead an unlikely conversion story in 1992’s Leap of Faith.

Tyler Childers’s newest album builds up a joyful noise with multiple versions of old classic hymns, original songs, and the songwriter’s own hillbilly universalist perspective.

If God loves this physical, here-and-now world and is continually at work renewing and transforming it, we should, too.

Once again, the Fare Forward editors offer you the (unexpected) favorites we discovered during the year past. If you stumble across them too, we recommend picking them up!