Dialogue 10.1 (1975-1976): 84–86 Review of Carthage Conspiracy: The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith coauthored by Dallin H. Oaks and Marvin S. Hill regarding the trial of Joseph Smith and his […]
To test the assumption that sexual behavior is socially rather than biologically controlled, and to see if Mormon emphasis on avoiding sexual activity out of wedlock has been effective, I have, on three occasions […]
Kieth Merrill, who created the Great American Cowboy, has done it again. This time the movie is Indian, a beautiful, kaleidoscopic montage dramatized through the odyssey of a young Navajo (Raymond Tracey), who has […]
[…] too poetically, these lapses are rare. She has the ability to take us into the children’s absorbing world. This canyon Eden comes complete with gates, serpents, and fire, and in Armchair Canyon these overworked […]
Three brass-skinned boys of Box Creek Reservation in new Grass Valley Mercantile pants black hair cut straight above their wary eyes moved soft as any hunted cottontail
[…] bulk of what we publish is first written for an honors seminar, a biology course or an English class, so we hope that professors will encourage their students to send their best work to […]
Institutions, structures and traditional roles provide necessary meaning, support and direction in people’s lives. Chaos occurs when they are wholly lost, and yet too much structure and constricting roles, out-of step with a changing […]
Most readers of Mormon fiction would quickly agree that the genre still awaits a writer of the stature of Chaim Potok or James Michener, to say nothing of a Joyce or a Faulkner. Perhaps […]
This time of year in the Willamette Valley is full to bursting, glutted with the harvest. Hazelnut trees, tassled and drooping with nuts, trail their branches in the fat green rivers; grain and corn […]
[…] a new and panoramic view of, a fresh insight into, Mormonism as a phenomenon in American and world history. The titles and authorship of the various books speak eloquently not only of Mormonism, but also […]