25 November 2021, The Tablet
Advent reading
The first of two selections of books preparing the way for Christmas
Advent is about nothing happening. The season centres on a stubbornly un-occurring occasion: four Sundays’ worth of not-yet. Soon we’ll have the presents, the tree, the new-sprung God, but Advent begins with absence; hopes unfulfilled; a childless cradle and skies vacant of angels.
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