Tag: Mormon Fiction

Fiction and Culture: Mette Ivie Harrison’s The Bishop’s Wife

by David Evans • August 30, 2017 • 9 Comments

A good Mormon mystery Novels — particularly good ones — convey a sense of place. This is absolutely true of mystery novels, from Kwei Quartey’s police detective in Ghana to Alexander McCall Smith’s private detective in Botswana. But how much…

The Literary, Linguistic and New York City Life of Pratt

by Kent Larsen • December 20, 2011 • 1 Comment

The first Institute class held in our upper Manhattan apartment in 1988 explored Mormon philosophy and intellectual life. The readings included a 1969 Dialogue article by Leonard Arrington, “The Intellectual Tradition of the Latter-day Saints,” (pdf) which mentioned a questionnaire…