[…] racists, a cast of not-always-sympathetic characters who comfortably look down in judgment on the rest of the world. By the end of the story, their pedestals have often been knocked out from under their […]
[…] I do them. I embrace Mormonism because the doctrine and the teachings help me to understand my world a lot better. They help me to put the adversity I experience, including the adversity of […]
[…] his circles however and whenever he could. I suppose the alternative is to risk believing that the world consists of people in the conditions of those most immediately around us. There is poverty in […]
[…] take it for granted that we can now make (or take) images and scatter them across the world in a fraction of a second. If for some strange reason we want put text or […]
[…] of us wanted to do), as remarry is to wary, or to worry. Like what I did the first night my brother and I stayed at Mom’s new house. Dad was alone. All alone. […]
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[…] alone, invisible, an absent presence that haunts the women’s lives (literally, in “The Bigamist”). Women in this world can be so other, so unknowable that they are literally monsters, like the Ice Woman and […]
[…] now on quotidiana.org), who famously wrote, “I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.” Madden continues in this vein, harnessing the energy of both the miraculous and the […]
The continual rising interest in all things Mormon, whether they be historical, cultural, social, doctrinal, or even theological, has led to a number of interesting publication projects. The texts gathered in this review […]
How to represent lived religious experience without either underplaying its reality or slipping into the magical-fantastical is an ongoing difficulty in Mormon literature. David G. Pace, in his novel Dream House on Golan Drive, has […]