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Q&A with James Goldberg, Co-founder of Mormon Lit Blitz
(author)Note: The Dialogue Foundation provides the web format of this article as a courtesy. Please note that there may be unintentional differences from the printed version. For citational and biographical purposes, please use the printed…
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Theric JepsonNote: The Dialogue Foundation provides the web format of this article as a courtesy. Please note that there may be unintentional differences from the printed version. For citational and biographical purposes, please use the printed…
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(author)Note: The Dialogue Foundation provides the web format of this article as a courtesy. Please note that there may be unintentional differences from the printed version. For citational and biographical purposes, please use the printed…
Lucky Wounds
Theric JepsonNote: The Dialogue Foundation provides the web format of this article as a courtesy. Please note that there may be unintentional differences from the printed version. For citational and biographical purposes, please use the printed…
Sisterhood and the Divine Feminine Twila Newey, Sylvia
Rebecca BatemanLePetit Richards and the Big Dipper Carpet—An Amusement Based on a Reworking of Whittle’s Research Notes
Simon Peter EggertsenReview: Delightful Futuristic Mormon Morality Tale Offers Teaching Tool for Progressive Parents Matt Page, Future Day Saints: Welcome to the New Zion
Christopher C. SmithTatau
Lehua ParkerExcerpt from Eleusis: The Long and Winding Road, Translated and introduced by James Goldberg.
R. de la LanzaDean Hughes, Muddy: Where Faith and Polygamy Collide Phyllis Barber, The Desert Between Us
Lynne LarsonMormon Saga
Maurine WhippleLessons in Scriptural Origami James Goldberg. Remember the Revolution.James Goldberg. The First Five Dozen Tales of Razia Shah and Other Stories
Chad Daniel CurtisI 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 WestwoodThere 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 GoldbergOn 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 CowleyWhen Was the Last Time You Read a Romance Novel? Ilima Todd. A Song for the Stars.
Madie Markle MossIn the Garden of Babel
Luna CorbdenReview: “Is this the Promised End?” Steven L. Peck. The Tragedy of King Leere, Goatherd of the La Sals.
Kylie Nielson TurleyThe Maidservant’s Witness Mette Harrison. The Book of Abish.
Luisa PerkinsAn Astonishing String of Stories Steven L. Peck. Tales from Pleasant Grove.
Charles Shiro InouyeReview: Welcome Additions Karen Kelsay. Of Omens that Flitter. Javen Tanner. The God Mask.
Edward WhitleySonnet: On His Blindness to Autumn
(author)A Survey of Current Literature
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(author)Articles and Essays in Mormon Studies
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Ralph W. HansenA Survey of Current Literature
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(author)Virginia Sorensen: A Saving Remnant
Mary Lythgoe BradfordVardis Fisher and the Mormons
Joseph M. FloraBeowulf 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. TaylorLiterature in the History of the Church: The Importance of Involvement
Dale L. MorganThe Imagination’s New Beginning: Thoughts on Esthetics and Religion
Robert A. ReesOn Words and the Word of God: The Delusions of a Mormon Literature
Karl KellerVoices of Freedom in Eastern Europe: “Spring” and “Winter” in Prague: Some Thoughts on the Human Spirit
Ralph J. ThomsonVoices of Freedom in Eastern Europe: An Hour with Milovan Djilas — Heroic Yugoslav Intellectual
Melvin P. MabeyA Survey of Current Literature
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(author)Jonathan Livingston Seagull: An Ornithologist’s Rod McKuen: Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
Clifton Holt JolleyA Survey of Current Literature
(author)Gambit in the Throbs of a Ten-Year-Old Swamp: Confessions of a Dialogue Intern
Karen Marguerite MoloneyThe Rise and Fall of Courage, an Independent RLDS Journal
William D. RussellAlthough 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…