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light reaches beyond
its capabilities from behind
three sisters

Liquid Crystal Display of neon Jell-O molds
Rotating underlit, perpetual planetary oscillation,
Celestial diffraction through gelatin.

There in the city they know all about
laughing by diamond light,
living in palaces,
and delighting in feasts.
Those are things I will never know,
Nothing of precious stones,
Marble houses,
Or overflowing tables.

Katie Ludlow Rich and Heather Sundahl’s “first-ever comprehensive history” of Exponent II is a deeply researched and engagingly written volume that reads as much like “a long letter from a dear friend” as the original…

Unique But Not Different: Latter-day Saints in Japan is the result of a sociological investigation into the identity of Latter-day Saints in Japan. Throughout its pages, its three authors seek to elucidate how Latter-day Saints…

Diné dóó Gáamalii. The title of the book is important for understanding both the primary subject of the book and the author. Diné, meaning “the People,” King explains, is a name that the people commonly…

Mormon doctrine plays a scant role in Mary Clyde’s new novel, Journeys from a Desert Road, but Mormon narratives are intrinsic to her characters, their family bonds, and to the journeys of the title. As…

Circles of light crown the peaks of red rocks against black skies. Are they sacred halos gleaming or artificial lights beaming from a UFO? The beautiful cover image of the book Machines for Making Gods…

Given the LDS Church’s recent emphasis on the “covenant path,” it seems fitting that this collection of Mormon short fiction takes up a similar theme: the ordinances (baptism, endowment, temple marriage) that operate as gates…