
On Elvis Costello’s Cover of “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding”
“As I walk through/This wicked world…”
Hagoth favors essays that can trace their lineage back to Michel de Montaigne; whether narrative, analytical, or devotional, these essays lean ruminative, conversational, meandering, impressionistic, and are reluctant to wax didactic. But that doesn’t mean you won’t find the occasional poem or piece of fiction here as well.

“As I walk through/This wicked world…”

I’d been avoiding this book for the longest time.
On the value of studying near-death-experiences, if any.

A Thai Christmas in July.
It took me for the longest time to realize I don’t actually enjoy Thomas Pynchon–except for this one book.

And we play this at fireworks shows!

Or, brief notes on the Priesthood ban and the Canadian saints.
Your timely reminder that the U.S. government throughout the Cold War overthrew democratically elected governments and replaced them with brutal dictatorships in Guatemala, Chile—and Iran.

An essay that leaps and jumps across oceans.
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