Essays

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.

On Arrival

On the undercurrent of Hope For Zion threading its way through the Ted Chiang adaptation.

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Let Us Liken the Best Books Unto Ourselves: Towards an Expansive Mormon Literary Criticism

In 1999, luminaries of Mormon literary criticism like Eugene England, Gideon Burton, Neal Kramer, gathered together for a special issue of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought dedicated entirely to Mormon Literary Criticism, setting the stage for a revival and new vigorous engagement with Mormon literary criticism. There has yet to be another special issue of Dialogue about literary criticism.

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What To Do With Win Butler

It was a year ago today that Pitchfork first published their exposé on Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler, who had been accused of sexual misconduct by four different people throughout the 2010s.

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