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Dinner Invitation and The Secret Lives of Sister Wives: Jenny Rebecca Rytting’s “Sister Wives”

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Angela Hallstrom, 2026 AML Lifetime Achievement Award

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James Goldberg, 2026 Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters

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Shosted and Davis “The Deseret Alphabet: A Fixed and Unalterable Sound” (Reviewed by El Call)

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Mormon Short Fiction 2026

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2026 AML Career Achievement Awards: James Goldberg and Angela Hallstrom

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Dinner Invitation and The Secret Lives of Sister Wives: Jenny Rebecca Rytting’s “Sister Wives”

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James Goldberg, 2026 Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters

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Mormon Short Fiction 2026

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2026 AML Career Achievement Awards: James Goldberg and Angela Hallstrom

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  • Becerra, et al. “Picturing Christ: Understanding Depictions of Jesus in History and Art” (Reviewed by Conor Hilton)
  • Oman, “Living Oracles: Law and the Latter-day Saint Tradition” (Reviewed by Conor Hilton)
  • Klein, “Loved Ones: Poems” (Reviewed by Conor Hilton)
  • Hales, “Sacred Scar: Poems” (Reviewed by Conor Hilton)
  • Beshears, “40 Questions About Mormonism” (Reviewed by Kevin Folkman)
  • LeSueur, “Life and Death on the Mormon Frontier: The Murders of Frank LeSueur and Gus Gibbons by the Wild Bunch” (Reviewed by Melvin C Johnson)
  • Bailey, “The Sun Has Shifted As Have I” (Reviewed by Andrew Hamilton)
  • Gómez/Núñez, “Volveré…con el alma silenciosa: poemas de Consuelo Gómez” (Reviewed by Jessie Christensen)
  • Hutchins, Joseph: An Epic (Reviewed by Henrik Sorensen)
  • McBeth, “Deseret Series” (Reviewed by Andrew Hamilton)
  • Allred, “Seeing (Themes in the Doctrine and Covenants)” (Reviewed by Conor Hilton)
  • Barlow “Time (Themes in the Doctrine and Covenants)” (Reviewed by Conor Hilton)
  • Stark, “The Desert Prophet“ (Reviewed by Conor Hilton)
  • Collings, “Divine Law (Themes in the Doctrine and Covenants)” (Reviewed by Conor Hilton)
  • Givens, “Agency (Themes in the Doctrine and Covenants)” (Reviewed by Conor Hilton)
  • Swallow, Blythe, Eliason, Rudy “The Three Nephites: Saints, Service, and Supernatural Legend” (Reviewed by Conor Hilton)
  • Hanks, “To Be A Friend of Christ: The Life of Marion D. Hanks” (Reviewed by Conor Hilton)
  • Stapley, “Holiness to the Lord: Latter-day Saint Temple Liturgy” (Reviewed by Kevin Folkman)
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