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.
Remember that all we are is what we love, and not a fragment more.
Pablo Neruda wished to do with you what Spring does to cherry blossoms/ That old communist, who sought for United Order but knew not where to find it
On the ineffable quirkiness of the Mexican Day of the Dead, English Guy Fawkes Day, and U.S. Thanksgiving.
An older creative piece (and sort-of sequel to “And All Eternity Shook”) that blurs the line between fiction and nonfiction, the same way that the Mexican Day of the Dead (not to mention our own theology) blurs the line between the living and the dead.
We have mentioned before how odd it is that we have a First Presidency Christmas Devotional but not an Easter Devotional. We frankly believe that we shouldn’t stop there. We believe there should also be a First Presidency Halloween Devotional.
Just like Autumn leaves/we’re in for change…
The African-American novelist[1]and ex-youth pastor James Baldwin shares the following anecdote from his essay collection The Cross of the Redemption. Billie Holiday, the famed singer
[Reviving an older series from a year ago for this Halloween season, I provide another selection from Modern Death in Irish and Latin American Literature
We’ve all read the books before and we’ve all seen the movies, so at this point Gollum’s role in the final destruction of the Ring
The curious paradox of how our ostensible “Low Art” is so much less accessible than our ostensible “High Art.”
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