[…] first half slow going. For with so much space given to the past, the present action—Jared Roseman’s search for his father, who has mysteriously disappeared on his seventy-seventh birthday—is repeatedly interrupted and seems hardly […]
Recent research indicates that certain ancient peoples had a much greater interest and proficiency in observational astronomy than they have generally been given credit for in the past. The evidence to support such a position…
[…] to emerge with some respectable findings as some of these people trained in everything from music to English literature might expect to be able to produce sound history. Only a third of the contributors […]
Obi-Wan Kenobi, that ancient warrior, knight of the Jedi, resembles in many ways Don Juan, the hunter and warrior (and sorcerer) of Carlos Castarieda’s books. Even their names are similar, and both live in the…
[…] quick lesson in the power of the press, for the ink was hardly dry on the “Y News” when I was on the carpet. When I refused to name names, I was suspended. When […]
My first reaction to Mr. Christmas and Mr. Driggs was to hurry back to my essay to see if I had really said those things. I seemed to be hearing myself through a kind of…
[…] man who attracts and marries only culturally sensitive and beautiful women, Taylor is typecast as a debonair, English gentleman set against the stereotyped frontier of Brigham Young’s Utah. The author would have us believe […]
Kate and Mary Ann Hamilton, mother and daughter, are nineteenth-century Mormon women whose romantic dreams are serially shattered during the forty years spanned in this novel, a story, hopes its author, that “has something to…
[…] hunters push into the slain silence, Stopping in slow wonder at the rattle, The bone-on-bone of his breaking breath. Throbbing still, he shudders once as if The captive coat could throw off pain; Then […]
[…] and brought much persecution against the church her husband founded under the direction of heaven. As I search the pages of history I find few women who were asked to go through as much […]