Helen Beach Cannon

A Celebration of Diversity: A Heritage of Faith: Talks Selected from BYU Women’s Conferences

In 1986 Deseret Book published an anthology of talks selected from BYU women’s conferences. That collection, Woman to Woman, as the title suggests, included talks exclusively by Church women. Now, a 1988 anthology includes both…

On the Edge of Solipsism | Larry E. Morris, The Edge of the Reservoir

Comparisons, they say, are odious, yet I find it difficult to comment on Larry E. Morris’s new novel, The Edge of the Reservoir, without referring to Anne Tyler’s latest novel, Breathing Lessons (New York: Alfred…

…of the Book…

My friend’s two-year-old loves the stories in books. He loves them so much that sometimes he takes a book from his mother’s hands, places it on the floor, and tries to step into the story.…

Pertinent to Our Enterprise | Wayne C. Booth, The Vocation of a Teacher

Why, you may ask, review a book on teaching for Dialogue! The reasons are several and compelling. 

In the first place, author Wayne C. Booth, surely one of the most significant critics now writing in English and perhaps in any language, unashamedly traces his roots to Mormonism.

Empathy

Several times a year, I give one of the Relief Society’s supplemental lessons. Jokingly, I call this my token Church job; in truth it means a great deal to me. I deeply value the opportunity…

Strange Love | Phyllis Barber, The School of Love

Disparate voices of contemporary short story writers, among them Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, Raymond Carver, Louise Erdrich, and even Mormon author Linda Sillitoe, all use external situations to probe the inner life of characters. All…

The Paradox of Paradox | Margaret Toscano and Paul Toscano, Strangers in Paradox: Explorations in Mormon Theology

Recently I was asked to review Margaret and Paul Toscano’s Strangers in Paradox for a local newspaper. While I tried in that review to be as honest and true as I know how, I realize…

Unnatural History: Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams

Sacred Clothing: An Inside-Outside Perspective