In this essay, Megan Preston Meyer connects creativity, the Trinity, dragons, and - as one might expect - supply chains.

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"The resemblance between Dante’s time and Sayers’s also drove her interest: the corruption in Dante’s day which drove his Inferno Sayers found in her own day, as she began reading Dante’s work from a World War 2 bomb shelter."

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For Dr. Josh Herring, his relationship with Dorothy L. Sayers is... complicated.

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"I am not sure exactly why I, and apparently the rest of the world, love mysteries as much as I do. I think Anthony Horowitz’s book-editor-turned-detective Susan Ryeland touches close to the reason."

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"To what degree should a work of imagination be credited to the mind of its creator, and to what degree, to the minds that influenced its creator?"

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This new poem from J.A. Cooper begins, "I do not have a soul..."

It ends differently. And it's from our latest issue focusing on the work of Dorothy L. Sayers!

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"The weight of the darkness of death and life in the pit may feel unbearable but it is not the time for hopeless despair, and it is not the time to stay silent in a hopeless world of chaos and confusion."

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Detective fiction is the purest literature we have.

That's the claim of this new poem from Elizabeth Scott Tervo...

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Check out this short poem, "A Gaudy Device," from Gabriella Schumacher!

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Essays and poetry from our new Dorothy L. Sayers issue are already available online... with more to come!

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"Dorothy L. Sayers messed me up. Whimsy, indeed. Hmph. One cannot help, when one begins to think in Dorothy’s whimsical terms, but see whimsy in the minutest details and the most complex matrices of life. Whimsy has invaded, and I like it."

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During the Second World War, Dorothy L. Sayers’s radio play cycle, The Man Born to be King, gave hope and truth to a country during a time when they needed it most.