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Death is one of the great anxieties and mysteries that permeate human existence. Through various art forms, and across different contexts, people have sought to alleviate the sorrow and grief that stem from death. Moth and…

Last summer, the Church History Museum was busy preparing to send art from Salt Lake City to New York City. The backstory of this move was the foundation of the Mormon Arts Center. This nonprofit is the brainchild of historian Richard Bushman and author Glen Nelson, trying to fill a gap in what they saw in Mormon arts and arts scholarship.

Although courtroom dramas can be entertaining, providing a formula for introducing new information through surprise witnesses or new evidence, simple procedurals can grow tired. An antidote is a realistic courtroom novel, where inner change and contemplation…

Editor’s Note: This article has footnotes. To review them, please see the PDF below. In 2016, the poet Solmaz Sharif said, “More and more, I am becoming convinced that poetry is not a form of…

The stories in Heidi Naylor’s short story collection Revolver present characters who have experienced regret, grief, loss, and even death. As readers, we have the opportunity to peer into the abyss of their lives, while still garnering from the experience some little hope to carry on. Sounds grim, perhaps, but literature allows us to experience vicariously the circumstances, situations, and tragedies we would rather avoid in our own lives, perhaps with the hope that we might learn therefrom.

The highest achievement for a volume of Festschrift is to prompt readers to revisit the life and teachings of that individual in whose honor it has been composed and move them to act in furtherance of…

Death comes into our lives all too often; we don’t seek it out. As much as possible, we focus on essential, everyday concerns and keep death in the distance, at the edge of the horizon.…