Book Review: Backwardness, by Garielle Lutz
There are intelligences even in the discarded candy-bar receipts and notebooks.
Notes on The Cantos of Ezra Pound, Finance, and Italian Fascism
As we have done previously, we share another example of what’s possible when we allow an LDS perspective to seep into our scholarship…
Brief Notes on Jacques Derrida, the Center is Not the Center, and Helaman 1:24
On midrashes and military disasters
The Truman Show and These Celestial Hosts
We are all in the Truman Show now; perhaps we always have been.
On Renée Girard’s “Violence and the Sacred” and the Kirtland Temple
French theorist Renée Girard, in his influential 1972 study Violence and the Sacred, argued that the origins of human religion are rooted in the ever-present threat of all-consuming, retributive violence…
On Malcolm X and Idaho “Human Rights Day”
On being careful what you wish for.
Belated Review: The Tree at the Center, by Kathryn Knight Sonntag
There are days when I consider the very real possibility that I don’t actually enjoy poetry, that I only muscle through it all out of some misbegotten sense of English majory duty.
On Finally Reading Altmann’s Tongue
The Brian Evenson controversy at BYU in the mid-1990s is one of those Rorschach tests that almost invariably reveals more about yourself than about Evenson.
On the Mona Lisa and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
A couple of illustrative examples of why if ye have not charity, ye really are nothing.
Review: MERCY, by John Cale
The Welsh iconoclastic John Cale has spent virtually his entire career better known for his influence than his music. Co-founder of The Velvet Underground (always listed second after Lou Reed–who pushed him out after their second album); producer for the debut records of The Stooges, Patti Smith, and Modern Lovers (acts who are also better […]