The album review that follows was delivered in a plain manila envelope to Fare Forward’s unlisted P.O. box. It has been edited for clarity by Drea Jenkins.

Swamp Thing is about the inability of stories to remain buried. Sooner or later, they will reemerge, corpses and seeds alike.

The social role of the pastor and the celebrity have become intertwined in the contemporary evangelical movement.

A look back at one of the first takes on internet romance.

Rowan Williams’s collection of three plays delves into the voices of artists and the purpose of art—before turning to Author of all voices.

Netflix’s film assumes that Jane Austen’s novel must be irrelevant now and modernized to fit current sensibilities.

The second entry in Randy Boyagoda’s Dante-esque trilogy carries the reader through a rollercoaster of a purgatorial journey.

By blending Anglo Saxon words with modern language, Hana Videen shows us how close the English of the past is to the English of the present.

We would do well to read Rowan Williams alongside Robin Wall Kimmerer, just as we should read Maximos the Confessor alongside Thomas Aquinas.

A public librarian joins Amanda Oliver in her reckoning with the institution of the library—past, present, and future.