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.

Review: MERCY, by John Cale

The Welsh iconoclastic John Cale has spent virtually his entire career better known for his influence than his music. Co-founder of The Velvet Underground (always

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Low Album Primer

I am still processing my grief at the recent passing of Low, whom I have previously argued was secretly the most Mormon band to ever exist, in all the best ways possible. So, I created this album guide.

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Reviews for Non-Existent Films #3: Not the Robo-Apocalypses We Expected, But the Ones We Deserved

One’s a curiosity, two’s a coincidence, but three’s a full-blown trend: when not one, not two, but three separately and independently produced films about the RoboApocalypse debut at the same film festival, then you know for sure that’s something’s in the water, something’s just floating in the air, that is making audiences anxious about the rise of AI. 

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