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Michael AustinSpring Hill
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“Slippery”
Stephen CarterThe sun streamed unimpeded through the kitchen window, warming Jake’s back as he ate a bowl of cereal. It was a pleasant feeling, but also strange. Usually the light couldn’t get in. His RV blocked…
Mormon Lit Blitz Introduction
Nicole Wilkes GoldbergEvery Mormon writer has heard Orson F. Whitney’s claim that “we will yet have Shakespeares and Miltons of our own.” Mormon writers have been so excited, overwhelmed, and preoccupied by this statement that we still…
“What if . . .?” and “How so . . .?” and “I wonder . . .” Mix with LDS Doctrine and Culture to Generate Each Story in The Darkest Abyss | William Morris, The Darkest Abyss: Strange Mormon Stories
Paul Williams“Mormon speculative fiction” must surely be one of the most niche genres available, and William Morris’s new story collection, The Darkest Abyss: Strange Mormon Stories, published by BCC Press, is a standout and quirky addition…
The Last Day
Jacob Bender“Scott Eccles?” “Yes!” “Please follow me.” Scott Eccles leapt from his seat, straightened his tie, and surreptitiously placed his fists on his hips in the Superman pose, for he had watched a video online that…
A Very Bad Dog Steven L. Peck, Heike’s Void
Jennifer QuistAmong the benefits to reading authors with large, proven oeuvres is trust. We can trust Steven L. Peck. Remember that through the provocations of the opening of his astonishing new release from BCC Press, a…
Sodom and Gomorrah
Wes TurnerListen to the interview about this piece here. Listen to the audio version of this piece here. A man stands naked on the rubber of a checkout counter’s clnveyer belt, face smeared with something red.…
Second Place: Dispatches from Kolob
Ryan HabermeyerListen to the Out Loud audio version of this article here. Listen to the interview about this piece here. Dear President Russell M. Nelson, For centuries, the pope has been addressed as Your Holiness, and they…
Honorable Mention: Butterflies
Phyllis BarberTrying to get to the nursery proper and all of the blooming plants—bright colors, heady smells, early summer at its best—Mona almost walked past his table. It was one of those fold-up numbers with foldout…
Vardis Fisher Pioneered Literary Mormon Writing Michael Austin, Vardis Fisher: A Mormon Novelist
John BennionGrappling with LDS Identity Formation: A Review of Recent Young Adult Novels Rosalyn Eves, Beyond the Mapped Stars James Goldberg and Janci Patterson, The Bollywood Lovers’ Club
Lisa Torcasso DowningThe Private Investigator
Ryan ShoemakerListen to the podcast version here. The doorbell rang as I hung up the phone, and then I heard my father’s deep, imposing voice fill our entryway. I stood and walked slowly into the unlit…
The New Calling
Robert F. BennettPodcast version of this piece. No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be,Am an attendant lord, one that will doTo swell a progress, start a scene or two,Advise the prince; no doubt,…
The Promise and Limitations of Working-Class Male Protagonists
Melissa Lelani LarsonThe ten stories that comprise Losing a Bit of Eden sustain Levi Peterson’s position as one of the most adept scribes of the twentieth-century American West. Each story is well grounded in a particular time…
Q&A with James Goldberg, Co-founder of Mormon Lit Blitz
James GoldbergThe Mormon Lit Blitz contest has tapped into a rich reservoir of Mormon short-short fiction, reaching a milestone this year with the publication of its first anthology. With a 1000-word limit, final winners selected by…
Lucky Wounds
Theric JepsonOld George sat on an upturned half-barrel cleaning his gun. It only ever shot blanks these days, but that didn’t matter much. A fellow outlaw’d once told him the state of your gun’s the state…
Sisterhood and the Divine Feminine Twila Newey, Sylvia
Rebecca BatemanLike a mother opening her arms to embrace her children, the span of mountains and trees that look over my childhood home in Salt Lake City extend to the south and cradle also the homes…
LePetit Richards and the Big Dipper Carpet—An Amusement Based on a Reworking of Whittle’s Research Notes
Simon Peter EggertsenPodcast version of this fiction piece. This was not the only time that Richards, originally born Neville Colyer, the son of a millwright in Oxfordshire, had worked through the imagery of the stars. He had…
Review: Delightful Futuristic Mormon Morality Tale Offers Teaching Tool for Progressive Parents Matt Page, Future Day Saints: Welcome to the New Zion
Christopher C. SmithAfter his death and resurrection on Earth, Jesus Christ traveled to New Zion—a planet in the Kolob star system—and appeared to its six-eyed alien inhabitants, whom he named the Othersheep. He explained to the Othersheep…
Tatau
Lehua ParkerUncle Akumu has tattoos. Big, thick pe’a lines shout his ancient Samoan genealogy as they crisscross his thighs. On his arms he carries his own story. There’s Aunty Lani’s name surrounded by vines and pua…
Excerpt from Eleusis: The Long and Winding Road, Translated and introduced by James Goldberg.
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Maurine WhippleLessons in Scriptural Origami James Goldberg. Remember the Revolution.James Goldberg. The First Five Dozen Tales of Razia Shah and Other Stories
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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
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Madie Markle MossIn the Garden of Babel
Luna CorbdenEldria is a technician on a team that has unlocked the secret to prayer. The learning machine has labored for years. It has uttered prayers both ancient and fresh, rote and random, then monitored weather…
Review: “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
Marden J. ClarkA Survey of Current Literature
Ralph W. HansenA Survey of Current Literature
Ralph W. HansenArticles and Essays in Mormon Studies
Robert A. ReesHugh Nibley: A Short Bibliographical Note
Louis C. MidgleyA Survey of Current Literature
Ralph W. HansenA Survey of Current Literature
Ralph W. HansenA Survey of Current Literature
Ralph W. HansenA Survey of Current Literature
Ralph W. HansenA Survey of Current Literature
Ralph W. HansenA Survey of Current Literature
Ralph W. HansenA Survey of Current Literature
Ralph W. HansenLiterature, Mormon Writers, and the Powers That Be
Wayne CarverVirginia 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.Dialogue 4.3 (Fall 1971): 42–45
It is tempting, of course, to redress the Book’s limited literary impress by recourse to history, sociology, psychology, and demonology. It is tempting to say that a hundred and forty years in the literary marketplace is too limited a test for such a grand design — but entire literary movements, like the preRaphaelites, have come and gone in the same period
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
Ralph W. HansenA Survey of Current Literature
Ralph W. HansenA Survey of Current Literature
Ralph W. HansenA Survey of Current Literature
Ralph W. HansenA Survey of Current Literature
Ralph W. HansenA Survey of Current Literature
Ralph W. HansenJonathan Livingston Seagull: An Ornithologist’s Rod McKuen: Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
Clifton Holt JolleyA Survey of Current Literature
Ralph W. HansenGambit 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. RussellDialogue 11.1 (Spring 1978): 115–119
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 subscribers or a financial “angel/ Courage died after its eleventh number (Winter/Spring 1973).
Windmill Jousting and Other Madness: Century 2
Randy JohnsonNew Messenger and Advocate
Kevin BarnhurstSunstone
Scott KenneyA Wider Sisterhood
Claudia L. BushmanBYU Studies, How She Is
Laura WadleyGospel by the Month
David BriscoeA Survey of Current Literature
Stephen W. StathisInsights from the Outside: From a Commentator’s Note Pad
Candadai SeshachariI, Eye, Aye: A Personal Essay on Personal Essays
Mary Lythgoe BradfordLiterary Dimensions of Mormon Autobiography
Steven P. SondrupThe Representation of Reality in Ninteenth Century Mormon Autobiography
Neal LambertExcavating Myself
Herbert HarkerThree Essays: A Commentary
Franklin FisherThe Vocation of David Wright: An Essay in Analytic Biography
B. W. JorgensenHalldor Laxness, the Mormons and the Promised Land
George S. TateA Survey of Current Literature
Stephen W. StathisA Survey of Current Literature
Stephen W. StathisA Survey of Current Literature
Stephen W. StathisA Survey of Current Literature
Stephen W. StathisA Survey of Current Literature
Stephen W. StathisA Survey of Current Literature
Ralph W. HansenA Survey of Current Literature
Ralph W. HansenA Survey of Current Literature
Stephen W. StathisA Survey of Current Literature: Selected Bibliography of Recent Articles
Stephen W. StathisThe Function of Mormon Literary Criticism at the Present Time
Michael AustinDon’t Fence Me In: A Conversation About Mormon Fiction
Joanna BrooksWhen the Brightness Seems Most Distant
Todd Robert Petersen“It might not be a problem,” she said to her husband before rolling onto her stomach with a pillow clutched in her arms. She was tired from crying and wished sleep would overcome her. Though…
Bash: Latter Day Plays: Bash by Neil LaBute
David G. PaceAnne Perry’s Tathea: A Preliminary Consideration: Tathea by Anne Perry
Richard CracroftSurviving with Hope: Survival Rates by Mary S. Clyde
John BennionHeart, Mind, and Soul: The Ethical Foundation of Mormon Letters
Neal W. KramerWanderings and Wonderings: Contemporary Autobiographical Theory and the Personal Essay
Valerie HolladayThe 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 BoswellModern Postmodernism: Worlds Without End in Young’s Salvador and Card’s Lost Boy
Robert BirdThe Mormon Fiction Mission
Tessa Meyer SantiagoToward a Mormon Criticism: Should We Ask “Is This Mormon Literature?”
Gideon BurtonDanger on the Right! Danger on the Left! The Ethics of Recent Mormon Fiction
Eugene EnglandThe State of Mormon Literature and Criticism
Gideon Burtonfrom Falling Toward Heaven
John BennionThe next morning Allison dropped Howard at the Mormon church in Rockwood, which, except for the thin spire, was shaped like a large, sub urban house. Though he had asked, she refused to go inside…
Sanctuaries
Margaret Blair YoungA Good Sign
Robert Hodgson Van WagonerWolves
Douglas ThayerFrom Three Jacks
Darrell SpencerHavesu
Karen RosenbaumNow and at the Hour of Our Death
Marilyn Bushman-CarltonBrothers
Levi S. PetersonSaturday Evening, Sunday Afternoon
Helen Walker JonesThe Siege of Troy
Hugo N. OlaizWho Brought Forth This Christmas Demon
Larry T. MenloveListen to the piece here.
The Gilded Door
Kristen CarsonA Spiritual Awakening Amid a Hippie Faith : Coke Newell, On the Road to Heaven
Neylan McBaineMarrow: A Review of Richard Dutcher’s Mormon Films
Dallas RobbinsGazing Into the Face of the Other
Richard T. LivingstonInsight Inside
Rosalynde WelchWhen Your Eternal Companion Has Fangs
Jonathan GreenReading the Mormon Gothic
Tyler ChadwickThe Widower
Theric JepsonTriptych: Plural
S. P. BaileyAt the Cannery
Phyllis BarberThe Education of a Bible Scholar
Sheldon GreavesRichard Golightly: A Novel
Ryan ShoemakerConception “They’re up there now,” Bishop Gray croons from the pulpit. His eyes move to the chapel ceiling. “Billions and billions of spirits waiting to inhabit mortal bodies, warriors saved for these last days, ready…
The Dream
Levi S. PetersonNiles awoke from a strange dream to find that his snoring had once again driven his wife from their bed. On his way to the bathroom, he peered into the darkened living room and, as…
American Trinity
David G. PaceThe other two are more patient than I am. They bide their time. What’s worse, Jonas is always telling me that I am shirking my duty. I haven’t talked to him in over a century.…
The Birth of Tragedy
Hugo N. OlaizFor Neal Chandler, il miglior fabbro “Is Mormonism still part of your Weltanschauung?” Aunt Doris asks me every time she sees me. She knows that at 2:15 on Sunday afternoons I’m blessing the sacrament like…
Grandpa’s Hat
Ron MadsenRecompense
Adam S. MillerWhy Joseph Went to the Woods: Rootstock for LDS Literary Nature Writers
Patricia Gunter KaramesinesMormon Scholars in the Humanities Conference: Savior, silver, psalms, and sighs, and flash-burn offerings
Jonathon PennyHank Toy’s Devil
Jack HarrellA devil came to an old Mormon on an icy winter night when mounds of snow outside, as big as cars, lay black and cold, nearly invisible. Having searched since the beginning of the world,…
Sandrine
Levi S. PetersonThese things happened fifty years ago. It was 1962, the year of the World’s Fair in Seattle. I was twenty-one and had just finished my junior year at Utah State University in Logan. My forestry…
What It Means
Reed RichardsI was looking at the morning through the window in the front room like a bear in a cage remembering somewhere there are meadows, and I noticed how much water was running down the gutter…
Dark Watch
William Morris“And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.” Isaiah 34:13 “I will make a wailing…
Trying to Keep Quiet: A Poem Constructed Around Fragments of Leslie Norris’s “Borders”
Simon Peter EggertsenWhat Kind of Truth Is Beauty?: A Meditation on Keats, Job, and Scriptural Poetry
Michael AustinTwo-Dog Dose
Steven L. PeckJarring bang. Wheels leap up, rattling the heavy load of black piping destined for the oilrig. The truck rolls on. Oblivious to what it left behind. On the macadam, a coyote. From its sacrum back…
Acute Distress, Intensive Care
Karen RosenbaumBarb’s dying, Carma thinks, and she steadies herself against the chest of drawers as Dan, kneeling beside his sister’s bed, strokes Barb’s face. Barb’s head seems to be rocking slightly on the pillow. Her eyes…
Moving On
Michael Andrew EllisSo I’m down in Payson helping my father, Wymond, move his new wife’s things into storage. The landowner Peg has been renting from is selling out to developers who want the farmland. It’s early on…
Vardis Fisher’s Mormon Scars: Mapping the Diaspora in the Testament of Man
Michael AustinReview: The Mormon Murder Mystery Grows Up Mette Ivie Harrison. The Bishop’s Wife Tim Wirkus. City of Brick and Shadow
Michael AustinReview: Mormons Are a Different Country Mette Ivie Harrison. The Bishop’s Wife
Scott AbbottSpring Hill
Luisa PerkinsSection Title Spring Hill Luisa Perkins Becca was taking too long. Emma huddled against the iron fencepost and hugged her knees. The chilly breeze had dried her tears, but her nose was still running. She…
“Slippery”
Stephen CarterThe sun streamed unimpeded through the kitchen window, warming Jake’s back as he ate a bowl of cereal. It was a pleasant feeling, but also strange. Usually the light couldn’t get in. His RV blocked…
Mormon Lit Blitz Introduction
Nicole Wilkes GoldbergEvery Mormon writer has heard Orson F. Whitney’s claim that “we will yet have Shakespeares and Miltons of our own.” Mormon writers have been so excited, overwhelmed, and preoccupied by this statement that we still…
The Rose Jar
Emma Lou ThayneWhat the Call of the Deep Teaches
Douglas L. TalleyThe Thirteenth Article of Faith as a Standard for Literature
Jack Harrell“What if . . .?” and “How so . . .?” and “I wonder . . .” Mix with LDS Doctrine and Culture to Generate Each Story in The Darkest Abyss | William Morris, The Darkest Abyss: Strange Mormon Stories
Paul Williams“Mormon speculative fiction” must surely be one of the most niche genres available, and William Morris’s new story collection, The Darkest Abyss: Strange Mormon Stories, published by BCC Press, is a standout and quirky addition…
The Last Day
Jacob Bender“Scott Eccles?” “Yes!” “Please follow me.” Scott Eccles leapt from his seat, straightened his tie, and surreptitiously placed his fists on his hips in the Superman pose, for he had watched a video online that…
A Very Bad Dog Steven L. Peck, Heike’s Void
Jennifer QuistAmong the benefits to reading authors with large, proven oeuvres is trust. We can trust Steven L. Peck. Remember that through the provocations of the opening of his astonishing new release from BCC Press, a…
Sodom and Gomorrah
Wes TurnerListen to the interview about this piece here. Listen to the audio version of this piece here. A man stands naked on the rubber of a checkout counter’s clnveyer belt, face smeared with something red.…
Second Place: Dispatches from Kolob
Ryan HabermeyerListen to the Out Loud audio version of this article here. Listen to the interview about this piece here. Dear President Russell M. Nelson, For centuries, the pope has been addressed as Your Holiness, and they…
Honorable Mention: Butterflies
Phyllis BarberTrying to get to the nursery proper and all of the blooming plants—bright colors, heady smells, early summer at its best—Mona almost walked past his table. It was one of those fold-up numbers with foldout…
Vardis Fisher Pioneered Literary Mormon Writing Michael Austin, Vardis Fisher: A Mormon Novelist
John BennionGrappling with LDS Identity Formation: A Review of Recent Young Adult Novels Rosalyn Eves, Beyond the Mapped Stars James Goldberg and Janci Patterson, The Bollywood Lovers’ Club
Lisa Torcasso DowningThe Private Investigator
Ryan ShoemakerListen to the podcast version here. The doorbell rang as I hung up the phone, and then I heard my father’s deep, imposing voice fill our entryway. I stood and walked slowly into the unlit…
The New Calling
Robert F. BennettPodcast version of this piece. No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be,Am an attendant lord, one that will doTo swell a progress, start a scene or two,Advise the prince; no doubt,…
The Promise and Limitations of Working-Class Male Protagonists
Melissa Lelani LarsonThe ten stories that comprise Losing a Bit of Eden sustain Levi Peterson’s position as one of the most adept scribes of the twentieth-century American West. Each story is well grounded in a particular time…
Q&A with James Goldberg, Co-founder of Mormon Lit Blitz
James GoldbergThe Mormon Lit Blitz contest has tapped into a rich reservoir of Mormon short-short fiction, reaching a milestone this year with the publication of its first anthology. With a 1000-word limit, final winners selected by…
Lucky Wounds
Theric JepsonOld George sat on an upturned half-barrel cleaning his gun. It only ever shot blanks these days, but that didn’t matter much. A fellow outlaw’d once told him the state of your gun’s the state…
Sisterhood and the Divine Feminine Twila Newey, Sylvia
Rebecca BatemanLike a mother opening her arms to embrace her children, the span of mountains and trees that look over my childhood home in Salt Lake City extend to the south and cradle also the homes…
LePetit Richards and the Big Dipper Carpet—An Amusement Based on a Reworking of Whittle’s Research Notes
Simon Peter EggertsenPodcast version of this fiction piece. This was not the only time that Richards, originally born Neville Colyer, the son of a millwright in Oxfordshire, had worked through the imagery of the stars. He had…
Review: Delightful Futuristic Mormon Morality Tale Offers Teaching Tool for Progressive Parents Matt Page, Future Day Saints: Welcome to the New Zion
Christopher C. SmithAfter his death and resurrection on Earth, Jesus Christ traveled to New Zion—a planet in the Kolob star system—and appeared to its six-eyed alien inhabitants, whom he named the Othersheep. He explained to the Othersheep…
Tatau
Lehua ParkerUncle Akumu has tattoos. Big, thick pe’a lines shout his ancient Samoan genealogy as they crisscross his thighs. On his arms he carries his own story. There’s Aunty Lani’s name surrounded by vines and pua…
Excerpt 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 CorbdenEldria is a technician on a team that has unlocked the secret to prayer. The learning machine has labored for years. It has uttered prayers both ancient and fresh, rote and random, then monitored weather…
Review: “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
Marden J. ClarkA Survey of Current Literature
Ralph W. HansenA Survey of Current Literature
Ralph W. HansenArticles and Essays in Mormon Studies
Robert A. ReesHugh Nibley: A Short Bibliographical Note
Louis C. MidgleyA Survey of Current Literature
Ralph W. HansenA Survey of Current Literature
Ralph W. HansenA Survey of Current Literature
Ralph W. HansenA Survey of Current Literature
Ralph W. HansenA Survey of Current Literature
Ralph W. HansenA Survey of Current Literature
Ralph W. HansenA Survey of Current Literature
Ralph W. HansenLiterature, Mormon Writers, and the Powers That Be
Wayne CarverVirginia 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.Dialogue 4.3 (Fall 1971): 42–45
It is tempting, of course, to redress the Book’s limited literary impress by recourse to history, sociology, psychology, and demonology. It is tempting to say that a hundred and forty years in the literary marketplace is too limited a test for such a grand design — but entire literary movements, like the preRaphaelites, have come and gone in the same period
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
Ralph W. HansenA Survey of Current Literature
Ralph W. HansenA Survey of Current Literature
Ralph W. HansenA Survey of Current Literature
Ralph W. HansenA Survey of Current Literature
Ralph W. HansenA Survey of Current Literature
Ralph W. HansenJonathan Livingston Seagull: An Ornithologist’s Rod McKuen: Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
Clifton Holt JolleyA Survey of Current Literature
Ralph W. HansenGambit 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. RussellDialogue 11.1 (Spring 1978): 115–119
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 subscribers or a financial “angel/ Courage died after its eleventh number (Winter/Spring 1973).
Windmill Jousting and Other Madness: Century 2
Randy JohnsonNew Messenger and Advocate
Kevin BarnhurstSunstone
Scott KenneyA Wider Sisterhood
Claudia L. BushmanBYU Studies, How She Is
Laura WadleyGospel by the Month
David BriscoeA Survey of Current Literature
Stephen W. StathisInsights from the Outside: From a Commentator’s Note Pad
Candadai SeshachariI, Eye, Aye: A Personal Essay on Personal Essays
Mary Lythgoe BradfordLiterary Dimensions of Mormon Autobiography
Steven P. SondrupThe Representation of Reality in Ninteenth Century Mormon Autobiography
Neal LambertExcavating Myself
Herbert HarkerThree Essays: A Commentary
Franklin FisherThe Vocation of David Wright: An Essay in Analytic Biography
B. W. JorgensenHalldor Laxness, the Mormons and the Promised Land
George S. TateA Survey of Current Literature
Stephen W. StathisA Survey of Current Literature
Stephen W. StathisA Survey of Current Literature
Stephen W. StathisA Survey of Current Literature
Stephen W. StathisA Survey of Current Literature
Stephen W. StathisA Survey of Current Literature
Ralph W. HansenA Survey of Current Literature
Ralph W. HansenA Survey of Current Literature
Stephen W. StathisA Survey of Current Literature: Selected Bibliography of Recent Articles
Stephen W. StathisThe Function of Mormon Literary Criticism at the Present Time
Michael AustinDon’t Fence Me In: A Conversation About Mormon Fiction
Joanna BrooksWhen the Brightness Seems Most Distant
Todd Robert Petersen“It might not be a problem,” she said to her husband before rolling onto her stomach with a pillow clutched in her arms. She was tired from crying and wished sleep would overcome her. Though…
Bash: Latter Day Plays: Bash by Neil LaBute
David G. PaceAnne Perry’s Tathea: A Preliminary Consideration: Tathea by Anne Perry
Richard CracroftSurviving with Hope: Survival Rates by Mary S. Clyde
John BennionHeart, Mind, and Soul: The Ethical Foundation of Mormon Letters
Neal W. KramerWanderings and Wonderings: Contemporary Autobiographical Theory and the Personal Essay
Valerie HolladayThe 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 BoswellModern Postmodernism: Worlds Without End in Young’s Salvador and Card’s Lost Boy
Robert BirdThe Mormon Fiction Mission
Tessa Meyer SantiagoToward a Mormon Criticism: Should We Ask “Is This Mormon Literature?”
Gideon BurtonDanger on the Right! Danger on the Left! The Ethics of Recent Mormon Fiction
Eugene EnglandThe State of Mormon Literature and Criticism
Gideon Burtonfrom Falling Toward Heaven
John BennionThe next morning Allison dropped Howard at the Mormon church in Rockwood, which, except for the thin spire, was shaped like a large, sub urban house. Though he had asked, she refused to go inside…
Sanctuaries
Margaret Blair YoungA Good Sign
Robert Hodgson Van WagonerWolves
Douglas ThayerFrom Three Jacks
Darrell SpencerHavesu
Karen RosenbaumNow and at the Hour of Our Death
Marilyn Bushman-CarltonBrothers
Levi S. PetersonSaturday Evening, Sunday Afternoon
Helen Walker JonesThe Siege of Troy
Hugo N. OlaizWho Brought Forth This Christmas Demon
Larry T. MenloveListen to the piece here.
The Gilded Door
Kristen CarsonA Spiritual Awakening Amid a Hippie Faith : Coke Newell, On the Road to Heaven
Neylan McBaineMarrow: A Review of Richard Dutcher’s Mormon Films
Dallas RobbinsGazing Into the Face of the Other
Richard T. LivingstonInsight Inside
Rosalynde WelchWhen Your Eternal Companion Has Fangs
Jonathan GreenReading the Mormon Gothic
Tyler ChadwickThe Widower
Theric JepsonTriptych: Plural
S. P. BaileyAt the Cannery
Phyllis BarberThe Education of a Bible Scholar
Sheldon GreavesRichard Golightly: A Novel
Ryan ShoemakerConception “They’re up there now,” Bishop Gray croons from the pulpit. His eyes move to the chapel ceiling. “Billions and billions of spirits waiting to inhabit mortal bodies, warriors saved for these last days, ready…
The Dream
Levi S. PetersonNiles awoke from a strange dream to find that his snoring had once again driven his wife from their bed. On his way to the bathroom, he peered into the darkened living room and, as…
American Trinity
David G. PaceThe other two are more patient than I am. They bide their time. What’s worse, Jonas is always telling me that I am shirking my duty. I haven’t talked to him in over a century.…
The Birth of Tragedy
Hugo N. OlaizFor Neal Chandler, il miglior fabbro “Is Mormonism still part of your Weltanschauung?” Aunt Doris asks me every time she sees me. She knows that at 2:15 on Sunday afternoons I’m blessing the sacrament like…
Grandpa’s Hat
Ron MadsenRecompense
Adam S. MillerWhy Joseph Went to the Woods: Rootstock for LDS Literary Nature Writers
Patricia Gunter KaramesinesMormon Scholars in the Humanities Conference: Savior, silver, psalms, and sighs, and flash-burn offerings
Jonathon PennyHank Toy’s Devil
Jack HarrellA devil came to an old Mormon on an icy winter night when mounds of snow outside, as big as cars, lay black and cold, nearly invisible. Having searched since the beginning of the world,…
Sandrine
Levi S. PetersonThese things happened fifty years ago. It was 1962, the year of the World’s Fair in Seattle. I was twenty-one and had just finished my junior year at Utah State University in Logan. My forestry…
What It Means
Reed RichardsI was looking at the morning through the window in the front room like a bear in a cage remembering somewhere there are meadows, and I noticed how much water was running down the gutter…
Dark Watch
William Morris“And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.” Isaiah 34:13 “I will make a wailing…
Trying to Keep Quiet: A Poem Constructed Around Fragments of Leslie Norris’s “Borders”
Simon Peter EggertsenWhat Kind of Truth Is Beauty?: A Meditation on Keats, Job, and Scriptural Poetry
Michael AustinTwo-Dog Dose
Steven L. PeckJarring bang. Wheels leap up, rattling the heavy load of black piping destined for the oilrig. The truck rolls on. Oblivious to what it left behind. On the macadam, a coyote. From its sacrum back…
Acute Distress, Intensive Care
Karen RosenbaumBarb’s dying, Carma thinks, and she steadies herself against the chest of drawers as Dan, kneeling beside his sister’s bed, strokes Barb’s face. Barb’s head seems to be rocking slightly on the pillow. Her eyes…
Moving On
Michael Andrew EllisSo I’m down in Payson helping my father, Wymond, move his new wife’s things into storage. The landowner Peg has been renting from is selling out to developers who want the farmland. It’s early on…
Vardis Fisher’s Mormon Scars: Mapping the Diaspora in the Testament of Man
Michael AustinReview: The Mormon Murder Mystery Grows Up Mette Ivie Harrison. The Bishop’s Wife Tim Wirkus. City of Brick and Shadow
Michael AustinReview: Mormons Are a Different Country Mette Ivie Harrison. The Bishop’s Wife
Scott AbbottSpring Hill
Luisa PerkinsSection Title Spring Hill Luisa Perkins Becca was taking too long. Emma huddled against the iron fencepost and hugged her knees. The chilly breeze had dried her tears, but her nose was still running. She…
“Slippery”
Stephen CarterThe sun streamed unimpeded through the kitchen window, warming Jake’s back as he ate a bowl of cereal. It was a pleasant feeling, but also strange. Usually the light couldn’t get in. His RV blocked…
Mormon Lit Blitz Introduction
Nicole Wilkes GoldbergEvery Mormon writer has heard Orson F. Whitney’s claim that “we will yet have Shakespeares and Miltons of our own.” Mormon writers have been so excited, overwhelmed, and preoccupied by this statement that we still…