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Category: New works

  • by Guest
  • Posted on July 17, 2026July 18, 2026

Maureen Clark introduces her memoir Confessions of a Once Upon a Time Mormon Girl

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  • by Guest
  • Posted on May 25, 2026May 29, 2026

A Scandal in Zion: The Tragic Story of Louie Wells and John Q. Cannon

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  • by Guest
  • Posted on May 13, 2026May 13, 2026

Come West: Secular and Sacred Poetry

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  • by Liz Busby
  • Posted on April 24, 2026

More than Just a Joseph Smith Retelling: Reviewing The Tales of Alvin Maker

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  • by Guest
  • Posted on March 30, 2026

David Thacker’s poetry collection Some Hard Stars

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  • by Guest
  • Posted on March 19, 2026

We’ll Always Be Relapsing Mormons: Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Write About The Faith

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  • by Guest
  • Posted on March 11, 2026March 12, 2026

Millie Tullis’s These Saints are Stones

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  • by Scott Hales
  • Posted on February 20, 2026February 21, 2026

Sacred Scar and Loved Ones, LDS poetry collections from Scott Hales and Kevin Klein

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NEW REVIEWS

  • Crosby, Richards, “Latter-day Eloquence: Two Centuries of Mormon Oratory” (Reviewed by Kevin Folkman)
  • Shosted and Davis “The Deseret Alphabet: A Fixed and Unalterable Sound” (Reviewed by El Call)
  • Hess, “World Running Down” (Reviewed by Andrew Hamilton)
  • Bergevin, Hall, “Enough Elizabeth’s” (Reviewed by Andrew Hamilton)
  • Nielson, “A Barn Full of Angels: The Spiritual World and Pioneer Journey of Zerah Pulsipher” (Reviewed by Melvin Clarno Johnson)
  • 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)

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