[…] strange territory in the land of current fiction. Though many of her stories begin in the “real” world, they drift into a landscape of dream and fantasy — worlds where the familiar suddenly becomes unfamiliar, […]
Since the publication of the Hosea Stout Journals in 1964, the University of Utah Press has made a significant contribution to the study of western history by publishing a number of important diaries, journals, and letter collections. The […]
[…] of life rather than the painful. The second section of the book, called “The Map of the World,” begins with a sequence of poems recounting Thayne’s 1984 journey to Russia. The poems record the […]
[…] to face. I find it difficult to make sense of such statements as “Questions about the natural world are answered by one’s culture as corrected by personal revelation.” Now, just what does that mean? […]
[…] initiations for young ladies, and the insular attitudes which pitted the “Only True Church” against a hostile world. This particular conflict is well illustrated when, to wards the end of her narrative, Barber relates […]
Marjorie Newton’s 60-page biography of Charles Wesley Wandell, Hero or Traitor, inaugurates the John Whitmer Historical Association’s scholarly monograph series. Those who have read her prize-winning Southern Cross Saints: The Mormons in Austrailia will […]
[…] his sources and develop his ideas. Readers will leave the book knowing some thing about The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism but with many un answered questions. The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism. By […]
[…] Went to go visit Jacob in the hospital for the first time yesterday. 4-West is like another world—another world where skinny bald kids and red-eyed parents live and die together. They even have their […]
[…] diversity, this dazzling diversity created by and in praise of God. In our culture and throughout the world we see this tension between those who insist upon an Augustinian authoritarian order of massive uniformity […]
[…] received a bachelor’s degree in 1968 and a master’s degree in 1970. She earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington, writing her dissertation on landscape in western travel literature. In 1973 […]