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Volume 32, No. 3

Fall 1999

Articles/Essays

The State of Mormon Literature and Criticism

Gideon Burton and Neal W. Kramer

Danger on the Right! Danger on the Left! The Ethics of Recent Mormon Fiction

Eugene England

Toward a Mormon Criticism: Should We Ask “Is This Mormon Literature?”

Gideon Burton

The Mormon Fiction Mission

Tessa Meyer Santiago

“Easy to be Entreated:” Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent and Christian Communication

Grant Boswell

Wanderings and Wonderings: Contemporary Autobiographical Theory and the Personal Essay

Valerie Holladay

Heart, Mind, and Soul: The Ethical Foundation of Mormon Letters

Neal W. Kramer

Measures of Music

B. W. Jorgensen

It came then that Sara dreamed of the flood. It had been the news for weeks, cities all along the Front sandbagging streets, sidewalks, driveways, window wells, a mudslide that made a lake over a…

There is Always Someplace Else (From There is Always Someplace Else)

Reed McColm

In 1957, a year and a half before she married the man who would leave her, Kören Dixon was almost the Carnival Queen of Conjuring Creek. There were only three nominations for the job, and…

Elijah’s Calling: 1840-41 (from This Could Be the Dawning of That Day)

Darius Gray and Margaret Blair Young

The following chapter is excerpted from One More River to Cross, the title of the first novel of a trilogy to be called Standing on the Promises being published by Deseret Book beginning in August…

Measures of Music

B. W. Jorgensen

It came then that Sara dreamed of the flood. It had been the news for weeks, cities all along the Front sandbagging streets, sidewalks, driveways, window wells, a mudslide that made a lake over a…

Brother Melrose

Douglas Thayer

The old man walked out from under the line of high, heavy trees bordering the cemetery. He stopped. He looked up, blinking his eyes. He held his hands palms up to the fading April sunlight.…