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.
Your timely reminder that the U.S. government throughout the Cold War overthrew democratically elected governments and replaced them with brutal dictatorships in Guatemala, Chile—and Iran.
An essay that leaps and jumps across oceans.
Even today, over seventy years later, it is difficult to overstate just how absolutely massive Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man was when it was first published in 1952.
A young father finds his child’s language is literally toxic. Another work of media that lands differently once you’re a parent.
A pair of reruns to commemorate the late Beach Boy/Pop-melody master.
On exaltation and singlehood.
Now this is the album I was waiting for Alan Sparhawk to make. In fact, it makes me suspicious.
An American never could have written this.
If Shakespeare were an American, we’d call him an all-American success story.
“After all this time/To believe in Jesus…I thought I was Him.”
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