Best of Dialogue 2015
December 31, 2015[…] of Seeing” by Richard Van Wagoner Most discussed Facebook article: “What 2 Religions Tell us About the Modern Dating Crisis” found at Time September Most read Dialogue piece: “Critique of Alma 36 as an […]
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Book Review: A Book of Contradictions: Ink and Ashes by Valynne E. Maetani
May 24, 2016[…] tomboy, but neither is she comfortable with the social interactions expected of a teenage girl, such as dating. This lack of close female connections allows Claire to take an undisputed center stage role and […]
Dialogue and the Dangerous, Beautiful Possibilities of Mormon Literature
September 12, 2016[…] pretty goodness and high-level mediocrity. There was no way to produce any of this within the Mormon community in 1965, and the national appetite for Mormon-themed literature, while not insignificant, was limited and driven […]
Exponent Bloggers Celebrate Dialogue: A Journal Of Mormon Thought
September 16, 2016[…] had been hired as a new professor. I was teaching high school Latin but craving an intellectual community with whom to discuss Mormon issues. Luckily, I soon found in Irvine a community of Mormon […]
RadioWest with Gregory Prince on Gerontocracy
October 5, 2016
RadioWest intervews Board Member Gregory Prince on his upcoming Dialogue Fall article on “Gerontocracy and the Future of Mormonism.” From the RadioWest page:
Of the major U.S. religions, the LDS Church is the only one whose top leader serves until he dies. That wasn’t an issue in the 19th century when medicine rarely prolonged life after a serious illness. But today, researcher Gregory Prince says that as Church presidents live longer, they’re more likely to experience age-related conditions like dementia. It’s something he explores in a forthcoming article, and Tuesday, he joins us to explain what this “gerontocracy” means for the future of Mormonism.
Book Review: The Last Blessing of J. Guyman LeGrand and Other Stories, by Darin Cozzens
January 25, 2017
Quiet Stories, Complex Emotion
Darin Cozzens. The Last Blessing of J. Guyman LeGrand and Other Stories. Provo: Zarahemla Books, 2016. 202 pp. Paper: $14.95.
Reviewed by Braden Hepner
Darin Cozzens’s second collection, The Last Blessing of J. Guyman LeGrand and Other Stories, contains emus and Mormon spinsters, ill- fated wedding ceremonies and wheelchair races in the dementia ward, washtub nostalgia and the ambiguous values of patriarchal blessings. Beneath these elements of the quietly bizarre run themes of desire, fate, and, most prominently, forgiveness.
Book Review: Ashley Mae Hoiland. One Hundred Birds Taught Me to Fly: The Art of Seeking God.
June 23, 2017[…] including herself, whom she knows intimately. The description of her husband’s gradual integration into an accepting church community and his own self-acceptance in college is simply beautiful. She writes exquisitely about being in nature. […]
2017 Eugene England Memorial Personal Essay Contest
July 17, 2017
In the spirit of Gene’s writings, entries should relate to Latter-day Saint experience, theology, or worldview. Essays will be judged by noted Mormon authors and professors of literature. Winners will be notified by email and announced in our Winter issue and on Dialogue’s website. After the announcement, all other entrants will be free to submit their essays elsewhere.
Prizes:
First place, $300; second place, $200; and third place $100
Book Review: Julie J. Nichols's Pigs When They Straddle the Air: A Novel in Seven Stories.
September 16, 2017[…] think about the big questions, some of which cannot be answered: Is there room in the Mormon community for a broader definition of devotion? Can we embrace those who doubt with love rather than […]
Book Review: Daredevils, by Shawn Vestal
September 19, 2017Lapsing into Daredevilry
Shawn Vestal. Daredevils. New York: Penguin Press, 2016. 308 pp.
Reviewed by Julie J. Nichols
It’s a hard truth: you have to be damn smart to be a writer of good fiction. If you’re dumb, forget it. You have to hear words in your head—and who doesn’t? But you also have to know how to put them together in a sentence that’s not only grammatical but original in its context, truer than any other sentence could possibly be. Then you have to do that with paragraphs and chapters in the service of a whole whose shape knocks readers right out of unconsciousness, makes them alive, blasts their eyes open so they see the world new.
Shawn Vestal is smart. He’s so smart he could write Daredevils, which is about three daredevil kids on the run, two of the daredevil bad guys they’re on the run from, and Evel Knievel, who was the quintessential iconic daredevil of the United States in the 1970s. He figures just enough in this story to be real. Or almost.