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Jennifer Sinor

Jennifer Sinor  is an essayist and a professor of English at Utah State University.

We Must All Become Yogis

We Must All Become Yogis

An ancient Hindu text offers advice on how to remain sane in uncertain times

by Jennifer Sinor | Monday, May 11, 2020
Confluences

Confluences

As a beloved uncle makes his final journey in the wilderness, a new life begins

by Jennifer Sinor | Saturday, December 01, 2007
Out in the West

Out in the West

The Mormon Church is going mainstream—and leaving its gay members behind

by Jennifer Sinor | Thursday, August 25, 2011
Say Anything

Say Anything

The stories we tell ourselves

by Jennifer Sinor | Monday, June 10, 2013
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THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

2nd Look

A Tale of War and Forgetting

by Neil Shea

In honor of Memorial Day this Monday, we’re revisiting this powerful essay from contributing editor Neil Shea, written just after the centennial of the First World War. Shea reflects on the war through the lens of Impressionist painting— viewed up close, he writes, “there is bravery and blindness, splinters of bone and steel, mud, horror, cacophony.” As time goes on, however, we risk seeing the war “as a vague event portrayed in colors that seem almost quaint.”