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 the undercurrent of Hope For Zion threading its way through the Ted Chiang adaptation.
For your end of the summer.
How quickly we forget just how quickly we can forget.
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.
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.
One more Summer re-run of Mormon lit debates of yore.
Continuing our Summer re-runs of Mormon Lit debates from years past.
“I think the central question of all story—and thus possibly of every form of human culture—is just this: How shall we greet the Other? Shall we devour, or annihilate, or welcome?”
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