
On St. Luke Passion, by Krzysztof Penderecki
For Palm Sunday and Holy Week: It was with great daring that the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki scored “St. Luke Passion” in 1966…
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.

For Palm Sunday and Holy Week: It was with great daring that the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki scored “St. Luke Passion” in 1966…
It’s already been 10 years since Pink Floyd’s last original song…

On the subversive power of welcoming Spring.

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…

One death is murder; a million deaths is a statistic.

On Wilco’s career-saving Hail Mary, it’s companion piece Kid A by Radiohead, and how everyone’s a burning sun.


Someone else who needs to get back into his little room…
What you do after the revolution was never televised.

“This is not the house of God. This house IS God.”
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