POSTED // Jul 15,2009 - Sometimes, you're in the mood for a full sit-down dinner centered on a main course; other times, you just want to sample a variety of items from a buffet ...

POSTED // Jun 10,2009 - Over the years, plenty of Utah-spawned literature has been the product of disillusionment with the LDS Church. There have been memoirs and fictional tales, some mournful and some bitter, an entire subgenre of recovering ...

POSTED // Jun 3,2009 - The category of sports memoir/autobiography isn't generally a place to find good literature. In most cases, the athletes don't do the writing, instead leaving the task to cliché-spewing sportswriters. Terrell Owens once famously alleged he'd been...

POSTED // Feb 26,2009 - Utah authors have shown us talents that run from stunning poetry to heartbreaking novels to illuminating works of nonfiction. But its probably no surprise to find, in this most family-centric of states, that there are many appealing local works intended for a ladies, gentlemen and children of all ages.

POSTED // Feb 13,2009 - Avatar Press seems to let Warren Ellis do whatever he wants—and fortunately, just about everything he decides to do is fantastic. Ellis has a way to packing more story into a single issue than most writers can fit in six, and his line of “graphic novellas” is the perfect example.

POSTED // Jun 25,2008 - The history of Salt Lake City can basically be boiled down to this: The Mormons showed up and started building a town. Other types of people showed up and contributed to the mix. There were struggles and tough times along the way, but the capital city...

POSTED // May 28,2008 - Blame that high school English class in which you slogged your way through a paperback edition of Hamlet: The combination of plays and reading probably feels like homework. Perhaps even worse, it feels like homework that doesn’t even allow you to...

POSTED // Apr 23,2008 - The problem with Jeff Benedict’s The Mormon Way of Doing Business becomes apparent in the first four words of the book when he writes, “I am a Mormon.” Not that there’s anything wrong with that—except when you’re purporting...

POSTED // Apr 2,2008 - They descend from a patriarch who made a fortune in the wild west of early 20th-century capitalism. Their family history is haunted by airplane crashes, illegitimate children and the great expectations of a public life. Many of them were educated at elite...

POSTED // Mar 19,2008 - Before the infamous forger and murderer Mark Hofmann became a household name, he was double-dealing a nonexistent “McLellin collection” to several buyers, claiming it would change Mormon history forever. On Oct. 15, 1985, he was to deliver...