[…] temple seriously while business contracts registered in the temple they take very seriously indeed (Matt. 23:16-18). I am told of a meeting of very big businessmen in a distant place, who happened also to […]
[…] the experience” (p. ix). They further assert that “these lives are a splendid example and model for today’s women” (p. 10). The stories of seventeen women are told, with a skillful interweaving of history […]
[…] of modern fiction.” I agree. Though they all partake somewhat of the paradox inherent in what I am calling faithful fiction, Peterson is right that they thus belong to “a large and venerable literature […]
[…] of civilization to far-flung regions of the world and its zealots almost brought Europe within its fold. Today’s Muslims have not forgotten this glorious epoch (Cox 1981, 73-80). Currently, fervent re-Islamization is sweeping the […]
[…] was made a stake president. Since that time they have only known me as President Brown. I am sorry to say that I have seen the effect of my possibly overbearing attitude in the […]
[…] not always, in my view, effective; the characters are sufficiently convinced of their own cuteness that I am reminded of the excesses of Heinlein’s later novels. Presumably, though, what can’t be cured must be […]
[…] be much taller than my brother. His skin was dark and leathery. Occasionally he would lift a live coal to his lips, then smoke would pour from his nose. I smiled wildly—proud. “These are […]
[…] hundred pages. I didn’t neglect my task during these seventeen months; I simply couldn’t work faster. I am sure I am not unusual among writers in finding the first draft the most irksome and […]
In his carefully crafted and distinguished novel Recapitulation (1979), Wallace Stegner, Iowa-born, Saskatchewan-reared, but Utah-formed, joins his protagonist Bruce Mason on a brief visit to Salt Lake City some forty-five years after leaving home. The […]
[…] the university, but in the Marmalade District. Gentrification has since remade the area, but at that time and for much of its history, it was a backwater of decaying pioneer dwellings and odd apartments […]