Flannery O'Connor

What We’ve Been Reading—January 2022

Our editors reflect on Eugene Vodolazkin, detective fiction, Jonathan Franzen, Toshikazu Kawaguchi, and Flannery O’Connor. Continue Reading »

27 Jan 2022

God’s Harsh and Dreadful Love

by George Weigel

Catholicism may be entering a new “Humanae Vitae moment.” Continue Reading »

14 Apr 2021

In graduate school, I was a teaching assistant for a course on postwar novels, and I observed over the course of two semesters that no one ever wrote a truly good paper on Ian McEwan’s Atonement or a truly bad paper on Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Something about . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2021

Ugly Chickens in Heaven?

by Hans Boersma

The Christian artist does well to remember that resolutions in art anticipate the resolution of history. Continue Reading »

3 Nov 2020

Letters

by Various

In “Why I Am a Baptist” (August/September), Dr. R. Albert Mohler Jr. inadvertently gives the impression that Southern Baptists came together in 1845 in order to “establish mission boards and organize evangelism.” To those not intimate with the details of Baptist history, this could be . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2020

O'Connor and Race

by Jessica Hooten Wilson

Radical Ambivalence: Race in Flannery O’Connor by 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 was located minutes from the sharecropper shack where Walker had once lived. Walker had . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2020

Don’t Cancel Flannery O’Connor

by Jennifer A. Frey

Loyola University Maryland announced that it is renaming the Flannery O’Connor Residence Hall on campus. Continue Reading »

29 Jul 2020

How Flannery O’Connor Fought Racism

by Jessica Hooten Wilson

O’Connor used her fiction to call for Southerners to repent of racist attitudes. Continue Reading »

24 Jun 2020