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...

POSTED // Mar 5,2008 - Bella Swan—the teen protagonist of Stephenie Meyer’s supernatural young-adult novels Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse—finds forever-young vampire Edward Cullen almost unbearably beautiful. While he may be part of a family determined to...

POSTED // Jan 9,2008 - Craig Unger, a contributing editor for Vanity Fair, garnered national attention with his previous book, House of Bush, House of Saud. Michael Moore cited it as a key source for Fahrenheit 9/11, and the film popularized the author’s reports on Saudi...