[…] a “Heracles, a Beowulf, a Gilgamesh, an Odysseus,” who sought out the living and the dead in order to place them into family relationships that would link the heavens to the earth (12). The […]
I am a relative newcomer to the academic side of Mormon history. I never traded photocopies of photocopies of historical documents. I only know of the most scandalous shenanigans in the field through my […]
To the young ravens which cry Songs in the night, Stormy wind fulfilling, Saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed
[…] Smith’s death, were embellished, and the Mormon leaders in Utah were depicted as Eastern potentates reigning supreme over their extensive harems. Fluhman describes how such practices made the Mormons themselves seem alien, and, as […]
Jesus and I were the only white people in the sanctuary. One summer, while outside Washington, D.C., on a college internship, I walked across the street to church. When I opened the door and […]
[…] once she had it lifted she couldn’t launch herself forward, so she had to lower it in order not to fall down backwards. Facing the garden hose again, foiled by it, she looked surprised […]
[…] the pyramid is the phrase that explains the meaning of America: novus ordo seclorum, or “a new order of the ages.” Here was a nation, therefore, untouched by the hand of hu man tradition, […]
[…] merely a “structured sample of reality” where science empowers their message. Alternatively, museums might encourage a pseudo-religious experience of ritually “attending” them— factors, some critics observe, that reduce the probability of resistant readings by patrons.
In our Spring issue, we mistakenly omitted Terence L. Day’s biographical note. Our sincerest apologies. There was also a mistake in the printing of James Goldberg’s poem, “The Feather Pen.”
In the months after September 11, 2001, essayist and poet Frederick Turner crafted an unpublished tale entitled “The Terrorist Goes to Paradise.” Told in the first person by the terrorist himself, the story recounts […]