Forma Journal

The next issue of FORMA (CiRCE's journal) is headed to the printer very soon!⠀ Featuring essays on Marilynne Robinson's legacy, cancel culture and the Great Books, and more. Subscribe now to ensure your copy arrives this November. Only $5/month! buff.ly/3nlSM8x

We created a special bonus digital issue of FORMA that shares eight strategies for attacking your summer with purpose. We hope you enjoy this guide and we would love to hear which strategies you’ll be following over the next few months. Happy reading! buff.ly/3fgsAsw

Our next issue of FORMA (#14!) is headed to the printer very soon. There is still time to subscribe and make sure it gets to your mailbox! Subscribe now and get 20% off for 1 year! buff.ly/2WqSXF6

@iamheidiwhitey talks with Lancia Smith, founder and director of the Cultivating Project, about the redeeming power of nurturing art and beauty in intentional community. Available now on the FORMA Podcast feed wherever you get podcasts.

Joshua Gibbs on the enviable life of Roger Scruton. "Because he never asked more of politics than it could reasonably give, Scruton lived a good life. A cursory glance of Scruton’s bibliography suggests a full life, a rich life, and an enviable one" buff.ly/2RvZKcK

What's more fun than setting fire to dessert? Let Agatha Christie be your guide in this (murderously) delicious Plum Pudding. It's another book-inspired dessert for your holiday party on the 12 Days of FORMA. buff.ly/2E6Ap2N

For those adventurous souls seeking a literary-themed Christmas feast, we offer you Tiny Tim's Roast Goose. Your family and friends are sure to rise up, call you blessed, and exclaim, “God bless us, everyone.” buff.ly/2RBJqJ6

Looking for a fun book-inspired dessert to try this Christmas season? Why not a murderously delicious plum pudding inspired by Agatha Christie? Our managing editor @iamheidiwhitey is sharing her recipe in The Forma Review today! Fire is involved. 👌🔥🙌 formareview.substack.com/p/c…

As part of our #12DaysofFORMA celebration, our very own @_SeanJohnson has put his culinary education to work re-creating Bob Crachit's Hot Gin Punch from Dickens' A CHRISTMAS CAROL. It's delicious. And holiday-party-worthy. Check it out here (and cheers!): buff.ly/34Zrf3U

Spread Jolabokaflod with FORMA (and other festive reasons to give FORMA this year) or 28 Reasons to Give FORMA This Year Did you know that quarterly print journals don't make noise, are cheaper than Disney+, and are better gifts than underwear. buff.ly/385iozB

Fresh off the press. - S.D. SMITH TELLS HIS STORY - HOW THEN SHALL WE EAT? - OFFERINGS TO THE WAITING: IN DEFENSE OF NEW ART - And more! We're really excited about this newest issue of FORMA. Coming to your mailboxes!

Join Heidi White (Managing Editor of FORMA) as she chats with poet, Sally Thomas, about how she became a poet, the various poets she loves and imitates, and the story of the poems that were published in the autumn issue of FORMA. Find it wherever you get your podcasts.

In which poet Susan McLean translates Ranier Maria Rilke "Come right after the sun goes down, and see the evening greenness of the fields of grass; isn’t it just as if we had amassed and saved it up inside us gradually..." buff.ly/376RaZd

How Marcel Proust helped a prisoner of war endure a Soviet work camp . . . This is @_SeanJohnson on Jozef Czapski's Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp (which was published late last year by the inimitable @nyrbclassics). buff.ly/33D8qTE

This week in THE FORMA REVIEW: "At the heart of Ovid’s Perseus narrative is a story about how faith and love triumph over vanity, ambition, and politics. Ending in marriage and children instead of death, t is profoundly Christian." buff.ly/2CtubsY

ICYMI: David Hicks came on the podcast to discuss his new translation of Plutarch's Lives. He explained Plutarch's mission in writing those histories, and why they are relevant as ever today. Listen here or wherever you get podcasts. buff.ly/2N2cO7v

" . . . the book is a tome. It is not, however, the tome I expected. I anticipated a theory of criticism; I found, rather, the deeply human Harold Bloom on the brink of death, telling us the unfolding story of the great love of his life: literature." buff.ly/2PrXTqi

"My daughter asked me, weeks ago, to write/a poem about Australia, and I/agreed, but not with that clean kind of yes/that means itself, but with some other kind,/more like a groan of dread." That's from @JMWSPT's "Australia," this week's featured poem. buff.ly/2W994FB

On this week's episode of the podcast, author David Hicks discusses his new translation of Plutarch, THE LAWGIVERS, which he produced with his brother, Scot. Listen wherever you get podcasts. Or here: shows.pippa.io/5a8c9c4c7780d…