For most of us, mention of the Ku Klux Klan conjures up visions of the Deep South—night riders in white robes, burning crosses, and, as the lyrics of “Strange Fruit,” Billie Holiday’s jazz classic, state,…
This small (126 pages) book written for juveniles, is one person’s view of a thorny issue in America today. Mormons will be interested to read Ms. Weiss’s first three chapters discussing historical events leading up…
A new Mormon poetry is beginning to emerge from the shadow of traditional, more bardic Mormon verse. Peeping about in the bright sun, blinking a bit and rubbing its eyes, it shows itself in poems…
What is this human intimacy, this condition that human beings seek “at every stage of life .. . as urgently as we seek food and drink . . . this need so powerful that we…
It is easy for me to be enthusiastic about this relatively short, readable volume, which in many ways breaks new ground in Mormon historiography. It is a book for all fascinated with Mormon health attitudes…
It may well be true, as Arnold H. Green, professor of Near Eastern history at American University (Cairo), pointed out at a conference devoted to Mormons and Muslims in October 1981, that Protestants like to…
After the Latter-day Saints began building Zion in the Great Basin it was natural to celebrate crossing the plains as pioneers. Succeeding generations of land lubbers have been less inclined to remember a similarly pivotal…
In the fall 1983 column, we surmised that Merlo Pusey’s history of the George A. Smiths represented, by virtue of its flavor, a respectable and even successful attempt at “family-authorized” biography. Subsequently, a missive from…
Each year the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints receives several hundred thousand column inches of space in national and local newspaper. News items range from the local LDS missionaries in the community to…
Waking from my loud dream
I hear only what is here:
the cornered stars rattling in glass
and the slow roll of a drumhead moon.