Angry Kitsch
August 12, 2018 · Books and Arts, Magazine, culture
Hannah Yoest on the work of Jon McNaughton, the painter of populist rage.
Cultural Writer and Reporter
Hannah Yoest
5 articles 2017–2018
Hannah Yoest is a writer and journalist who contributed to The Weekly Standard during 2017–2018. She wrote on a range of cultural topics for the magazine, including book recommendations, arts criticism, poetry, and obituaries. She later joined other media outlets as a reporter and editor.
Meet the Bullies from the World of Social Justice Poetry
August 9, 2018 · Web Only, culture
Mean Girls and the political undertow are sweeping civil discourse out to sea.
Stephen Hawking Reaches His Last Event Horizon, Dies at 76
March 14, 2018 · Hannah Yoest, Stephen Hawking, physics
Theoretical physicist and best-selling author Stephen Hawking is dead at age 76. The revered scientist overcame living with paralysis from Lou Gehrig’s disease to become one of the world’s leading minds on gravity and black holes.
12 Books You Can Read in a Day to Complete Your Goodreads Goal
December 26, 2017 · Books, Hannah Yoest, Listicles
While you sift through all the end of the year Best Books/Movies/Moments lists, they can present a daunting task. You had high ambitions about how much reading you would get done throughout the year and set an over optimistic Goodreads challenge. Now you have mere days to meet a yearlong goal, and…
A Symphony of Silence
November 2, 2017 · Books, Hannah Yoest, culture
There are many winners and losers amid the current political turmoil. Among the losers is the publishing industry. Indeed, The New Republic would like to know, Is Trump Ruining Book Sales? They posit that given the attention the administration demands with its many entertaining twists and turns,…