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.
OK, story time. Once, while interning for an English-language newspaper in Mexico during tail-end of the Bush years, I went with my office to Hard
[Apropos of the season, we present here a third and final selection from Modern Death in Irish and Latin American Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), available
Early in William Gaddis’s sprawling 1955 debut novel The Recognitions, a gifted young artist named Wyatt is recruited by an unscrupulous art dealer to paint
From the vantage point of 2021, what now stands out to me most about Low’s 1999 Indie-classic Christmas is how much it anticipates their development throughout the 21st century–and our own.
Once upon a time, I went floating in the Great Salt Lake. The experience is uncanny: there, there are no tides, no currents, no waves,
Thus far we’ve spent the bulk of our time discussing that Sunday morning feeling–the one you sometimes get in the harsh light of the dawn
A Study in Scarlett, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1887 debut Sherlock Holmes novel, memorably finishes with roughly 5 chapters of salacious anti-Mormon caricatures. Whereas Part
But why do any of us believe in the first place? Church meetings are boring, Church history is sketchy, and Church leaders are (by their
This is not an essay about The Da Vinci Code. I haven’t seen the movie; I haven’t read the book. But it’s not because I’m
Appearing on his massive (in every sense of the word) 2015 album To Pimp a Butterfly and cited as a favorite track by no less
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