Over the years, the bookworms at America Media have compiled list upon list of books that would make good Christmas gifts. Here is a sample.

We do not generally think about Christmas carols as about a battle. And yet what does it mean for the Christ child to be our savior, if not a blessed release from some kind of struggle?

“O Come, All Ye Faithful” is a song almost everyone knows. But where did it come from, and why is it so popular?

Kavanagh’s poem looks to Advent for a sort of poetic and spiritual rebirth, a chance to reacquaint ourselves with the “newness that was in every stale thing.”

“Belfast” presents itself as a family photo album: Violence may intrude, but it doesn’t crowd out the Christmas pictures.

What this quintessential stage musical needed, apparently, was a thoroughgoing cinematic makeover.