The Fall 2020 issue of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought is now available. It is heavy with literature and reviews of literature, including:
Luisa Perkins’ short story “Three Dogs in the Afterlife”, which originally appeared in the Mormon Lit Blitz.
Poetry by Christopher Bissett, Luisa Perkins, Tamara Pace Thompson, Chris A. Peck, and Henry Landon Miles.
Book Reviews:
The Cunning Man and Fiction of the Mormon Corridor: D. J. Butler and Aaron Michael Ritchey’s The Cunning Man. Reviewed by James Goldberg.
As Above, So Below: Mormonism in D. J. Butler’s Kaleidoscopic Cosmological Fantasy: D. J. Butler’s Witchy Eye, Witchy Winter, and Witchy Kingdom. Reviewed by Mattathias Singh Goldberg Westwood.
The Things We Make True: Michael William Palmer’s Baptizing the Dead and Other Jobs. Reviewed by Susan Meredith Hinckley.
Karen Anderson’s Excavation of Ghosts: Karin Anderson’s Before Us Like a Land of Dreams. Reviewed by Lauren Matthews.
History Written in Celluloid: Randy Astle’s Mormon Cinema: Origins to 1952. Reviewed by Davey Morrison.
Latter-Day Screens: Mormonism in Popular Culture: Brenda R. Weber’s Latter-Day Screens: Gender, Sexuality & Mediated Mormonism. Reviewed by Conor Bruce Hilton.
Beauty in the Irreversible: Lisa Van Orman Hadley’s Irreversible Things. Reviewed by Sarah Nickel Moore.
Sunni Brown Wilkinson’s The Marriage of the Moon and the Field. Reviewed by Elizabeth Cranford Garcia.
Lessons in Scriptural Origami: James Goldberg’s Remember the Revolution and The First Five Dozen Tales of Razia Shah and Other Stories. Reviewed by Chad Daniel Curtis.
Modern Mormonism, Gender, and the Tangled Nature of History: Gregory A. Prince’s Gay Rights and the Mormon Church. Reviewed by Benjamin E. Park.
Remembering Jane Manning James: Quincy D. Newell’s Your Sister in the Gospel: The Life of Jane Manning James, a Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon. Reviewed by Charlotte Hansen Terry.
Mormon Modernity: David Walker’s Railroading Religion: Mormons, Tourists, and the Corporate Spirit of the West. Reviewed by Dmitri Brown.
The issue also features articles on theology, Joseph Smith, and the Book of Mormon, by James E. Faulconer, Jenny Webb, Colby Townsend, and William Davis. Also art notes by Joanna Brooks and Madison Daniels, and a “From the Pulpit” sermon by Boyd Jay Peterson.
There is also a Dialogue Podcast now available in which I am joined by the authors D. J. (Dave) Butler and Mattathias Westwood to discuss Dave’s recent fantasy/adventure novels, including the steampunk City of the Saints, the early American epic fantasy Witchy War Series, and the historical (1930s Utah) fantasy The Cunning Man.