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AML Awards 2017

The results of the 2017 Association for Mormon Letters Awards, presented at the Mormon Scholars in the Humanities Conference at Brigham Young University on May 26, 2018 can be found here. Also, Lavina Fielding Anderson was presented with the Smith-Pettit Foundation Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters, and Robert Kirby was presented with the AML Lifetime Achievement Award.

NEW REVIEWS

  • Laxness, “Paradise Reclaimed” (Reviewed by Randy Astle)
  • McCann, “We’re Thankful for the Moisture” (Reviewed by Andrew Hamilton)
  • Clark, “Confessions of a Once Upon A Time Mormon Girl” (Reviewed by Andrew Hamilton)
  • Goldberg and Goldberg, “Latter-day Sikh: From a Guru’s Feet to a Prophet’s Call” (Reviewed by James D. Holt)
  • Crosby, Richards, “Latter-day Eloquence: Two Centuries of Mormon Oratory” (Reviewed by Kevin Folkman)

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