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The Catholic Imagination in 2022
About a decade ago, a debate occurred in the public intellectual sphere between Dana Gioia, Paul Elie, Gregory Wolfe, and Randy Boyagoda on whether the Catholic imagination that so...
The Exile of a Moment
Clouds like ice broken on the surface of a lake, / Shifting forms of Pangaea that gravitate towards the sun, / Light rising bright impenetrable and distant. ...
The night my friend confessed her sins over the phone
She told me that she wanted to be holy / But everything she said / Sounded like she wanted to be happy. ...
O’Connor and Race
Radical Ambivalence: Race in Flannery O’Connorby angela alaimo o’donnell fordham, 192 pages, $30 In 1974, ten years after Flannery O’Connor died, Alice Walker visited O’Connor’s farm in Georgia. It...
How Flannery O’Connor Fought Racism
In a recent New Yorker essay, Paul Elie asks, “How Racist Was Flannery O’Connor?” His headline aims to be incendiary, to rile people up, to give us a scapegoat...
