Literature

Q&A with James Goldberg, Co-founder of Mormon Lit Blitz

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Theric Jepson

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Sisterhood and the Divine Feminine Twila Newey, Sylvia

Rebecca Bateman

LePetit Richards and the Big Dipper Carpet—An Amusement Based on a Reworking of Whittle’s Research Notes

Simon Peter Eggertsen

Review: Delightful Futuristic Mormon Morality Tale Offers Teaching Tool for Progressive Parents Matt Page, Future Day Saints: Welcome to the New Zion

Christopher C. Smith

Tatau

Lehua Parker

Excerpt from Eleusis: The Long and Winding Road, Translated and introduced by James Goldberg.

R. de la Lanza

Dean Hughes, Muddy: Where Faith and Polygamy Collide Phyllis Barber, The Desert Between Us

Lynne Larson

Mormon Saga

Maurine Whipple

Lessons in Scriptural Origami James Goldberg. Remember the Revolution.James Goldberg. The First Five Dozen Tales of Razia Shah and Other Stories

Chad Daniel Curtis

I first discovered James Goldberg when a friend from my mission shared a blog post from the Mormon Midrashim entitled “Explanation, Justification, Sanctification.” In it, the author shares some profound theology with his ten-year-old daughter in a…

As Above, So Below: Mormonism Mattathias Singhin D. J. Butler’s Kaleidoscopic Cosmological Fantasy D. J. Butler. Witchy Eye D. J. Butler. Witchy Winter D. J. Butler. Witchy Kingdom

Mattathias Singh Goldberg Westwood

There are many different ways to construct a fantasy universe. Some are flowers, carefully grown from a single seed. Some are mirrors, with each element corresponding to a specific parallel in our own world for…

The Cunning Man and Fiction of the Mormon Corridor D. J. Butler and Aaron Michael Ritchey. The Cunning Man

James Goldberg

On December 6, 2019, the Western Mining and Railroad Museum in Helper, Utah hosted a release party for The Cunning Man. The novel, which has scenes in the city and in the old coal mines nearby…

A Rising Generation: Women in Power in Young Adult Novels Jo Cassidy. Good Girls Stay Quiet Emily King. Before the Broken Star Julie Berry. Lovely War

Katherine Cowley

When Was the Last Time You Read a Romance Novel? Ilima Todd. A Song for the Stars.

Madie Markle Moss

In the Garden of Babel

Luna Corbden

Review: “Is this the Promised End?” Steven L. Peck. The Tragedy of King Leere, Goatherd of the La Sals.

Kylie Nielson Turley

The Maidservant’s Witness Mette Harrison. The Book of Abish.

Luisa Perkins

An Astonishing String of Stories Steven L. Peck. Tales from Pleasant Grove.

Charles Shiro Inouye

Review: Welcome Additions Karen Kelsay. Of Omens that Flitter. Javen Tanner. The God Mask.

Edward Whitley

Sonnet: On His Blindness to Autumn

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A Survey of Current Literature

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A Survey of Current Literature

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Articles and Essays in Mormon Studies

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Hugh Nibley: A Short Bibliographical Note

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A Survey of Current Literature

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A Survey of Current Literature

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A Survey of Current Literature

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A Survey of Current Literature

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A Survey of Current Literature

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A Survey of Current Literature

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A Survey of Current Literature

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A Survey of Current Literature

Ralph W. Hansen

A Survey of Current Literature

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Literature, Mormon Writers, and the Powers That Be

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Virginia Sorensen: A Saving Remnant

Mary Lythgoe Bradford

Vardis Fisher and the Mormons

Joseph M. Flora

Beowulf and Nephi: A Literary View of the Book of Mormon

Robert E. Nichols Jr.

Little Did She Realize: Writing for the Mormon Market

Samuel L. Taylor

Literature in the History of the Church: The Importance of Involvement

Dale L. Morgan

The Imagination’s New Beginning: Thoughts on Esthetics and Religion

Robert A. Rees

On Words and the Word of God: The Delusions of a Mormon Literature

Karl Keller

Voices of Freedom in Eastern Europe: “Spring” and “Winter” in Prague: Some Thoughts on the Human Spirit

Ralph J. Thomson

Voices of Freedom in Eastern Europe: An Hour with Milovan Djilas — Heroic Yugoslav Intellectual

Melvin P. Mabey

A Survey of Current Literature

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A Survey of Current Literature

Ralph W. Hansen

A Survey of Current Literature

Ralph W. Hansen

A Survey of Current Literature

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull: An Ornithologist’s Rod McKuen: Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

Clifton Holt Jolley

A Survey of Current Literature

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Gambit in the Throbs of a Ten-Year-Old Swamp: Confessions of a Dialogue Intern

Karen Marguerite Moloney

The Rise and Fall of Courage, an Independent RLDS Journal

William D. Russell

Although Courage struck a responsive chord in quite a few hearts, its readers did not support it to the extent the editors had expected. Appealing only to a minority in a small church, and without either sufficient…

Windmill Jousting and Other Madness: Century 2

Randy Johnson

Windmill Jousting and Other Madness: Century 2

Sue Bergin

New Messenger and Advocate

Kevin Barnhurst

Sunstone

Scott Kenney

A Wider Sisterhood

Claudia L. Bushman

BYU Studies, How She Is

Laura Wadley

Gospel by the Month

David Briscoe

A Survey of Current Literature

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Insights from the Outside: From a Commentator’s Note Pad

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I, Eye, Aye: A Personal Essay on Personal Essays

Mary Lythgoe Bradford

Literary Dimensions of Mormon Autobiography

Steven P. Sondrup

The Representation of Reality in Ninteenth Century Mormon Autobiography

Neal Lambert

Excavating Myself

Herbert Harker

Three Essays: A Commentary

Franklin Fisher

The Vocation of David Wright: An Essay in Analytic Biography

Bruce Jorgensen

Halldor Laxness, the Mormons and the Promised Land

George S. Tate

A Survey of Current Literature

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A Survey of Current Literature

Stephen W. Stathis

A Survey of Current Literature

Stephen W. Stathis

A Survey of Current Literature

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A Survey of Current Literature

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A Survey of Current Literature

Ralph W. Hansen

A Survey of Current Literature

Ralph W. Hansen

A Survey of Current Literature

Ralph W. Hansen

A Survey of Current Literature

Ralph W. Hansen

A Survey of Current Literature: Selected Bibliography of Recent Articles

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The Function of Mormon Literary Criticism at the Present Time

Michael Austin

Don’t Fence Me In: A Conversation About Mormon Fiction

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Don’t Fence Me In: A Conversation About Mormon Fiction

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Don’t Fence Me In: A Conversation About Mormon Fiction

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When the Brightness Seems Most Distant

Todd Robert Petersen

Bash: Latter Day Plays: Bash by Neil LaBute

David G. Pace

Anne Perry’s Tathea: A Preliminary Consideration: Tathea by Anne Perry

Richard Cracroft

Surviving with Hope: Survival Rates by Mary S. Clyde

John Bennion

Heart, Mind, and Soul: The Ethical Foundation of Mormon Letters

Neal W. Kramer

Wanderings and Wonderings: Contemporary Autobiographical Theory and the Personal Essay

Valerie Holladay

The Lyric Body of Emma Lou Thayne’s Things Happen

Lisa Orme Bickmore

“Easy to be Entreated:” Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent and Christian Communication

Grant Boswell

Modern Postmodernism: Worlds Without End in Young’s Salvador and Card’s Lost Boy

Robert Bird

The Mormon Fiction Mission

Tessa Meyer Santiago

Toward a Mormon Criticism: Should We Ask “Is This Mormon Literature?”

Gideon Burton

Danger on the Right! Danger on the Left! The Ethics of Recent Mormon Fiction

Eugene England

The State of Mormon Literature and Criticism

Gideon Burton

from Falling Toward Heaven

John Bennion

Sanctuaries

Margaret Blair Young

A Good Sign

Robert Hodgson Van Wagoner

Wolves

Douglas Thayer

From Three Jacks

Darrell Spencer

Havesu

Karen Rosenbaum

Now and at the Hour of Our Death

Marilyn Bushman-Carlton

Brothers

Levi S. Peterson

Saturday Evening, Sunday Afternoon

Helen Walker Jones

The Siege of Troy

Hugo N. Olaiz

Who Brought Forth This Christmas Demon

Larry T. Menlove

The Gilded Door

Kristen Carson

A Spiritual Awakening Amid a Hippie Faith : Coke Newell, On the Road to Heaven

Neylan McBaine

Marrow: A Review of Richard Dutcher’s Mormon Films

Dallas Robbins

Gazing Into the Face of the Other

Richard T. Livingston

Insight Inside

Rosalynde Welch

When Your Eternal Companion Has Fangs

Jonathan Green

Reading the Mormon Gothic

Tyler Chadwick

The Widower

Eric W. Jepson

Triptych: Plural

S. P. Bailey

At the Cannery

Phyllis Barber

The Education of a Bible Scholar

Sheldon Greaves

Richard Golightly: A Novel

Ryan Shoemaker

The Dream

Levi S. Peterson

American Trinity

David G. Pace

The Birth of Tragedy

Hugo N. Olaiz

Grandpa’s Hat

Ron Madsen

Recompense

Adam S. Miller

Why Joseph Went to the Woods: Rootstock for LDS Literary Nature Writers

Patricia Gunter Karamesines

Mormon Scholars in the Humanities Conference: Savior, silver, psalms, and sighs, and flash-burn offerings

Jonathon Penny

Hank Toy’s Devil

Jack Harrell

Sandrine

Levi S. Peterson

What It Means

Reed Richards

Dark Watch

William Morris

Trying to Keep Quiet: A Poem Constructed Around Fragments of Leslie Norris’s “Borders”

Simon Peter Eggertsen

What Kind of Truth Is Beauty?: A Meditation on Keats, Job, and Scriptural Poetry

Michael Austin

Two-Dog Dose

Steven L. Peck

Acute Distress, Intensive Care

Karen Rosenbaum

Moving On

Michael Andrew Ellis

Vardis Fisher’s Mormon Scars: Mapping the Diaspora in the Testament of Man

Michael Austin

Review: The Mormon Murder Mystery Grows Up Mette Ivie Harrison. The Bishop’s Wife Tim Wirkus. City of Brick and Shadow

Michael Austin

Review: Mormons Are a Different Country Mette Ivie Harrison. The Bishop’s Wife

Scott Abbott

Spring Hill

Luisa Perkins

“Slippery”

Stephen Carter

Mormon Lit Blitz Introduction

Nicole Wilkes Goldberg

The Rose Jar

Emma Lou Thayne

What the Call of the Deep Teaches

Douglas L. Talley

The Thirteenth Article of Faith as a Standard for Literature

Jack Harrell