Flannery and St. Thomas, Take II
Angela Alaimo O’Donnell riffs on Flannery O’Connor’s fandom of Thomas Aquinas.
Angela Alaimo O’Donnell riffs on Flannery O’Connor’s fandom of Thomas Aquinas.
Angela Alaimo O’Donnell riffs on Flannery O’Connor’s fandom of Dante Alighieri.
Daniel Holden has been on a Georgia death row for the rape and murder of his girlfriend for 19 years and has been released following new DNA evidence. Newly loose upon the world, he is distant, vague, as motivationally inscrutable as a Flannery O’Connor anti-hero. His fiercely loyal sister and parents are getting used to […]
In the 5th grade I decided that resolutions were a ‘crutch for the weak’. I think I’d heard someone misquoting Marx or something (the silly kind of Marx, not the Harpo kind). I just remember thinking, ‘Why do adults always need a catalyst for changing their rotten habits?” I doubt I used the word catalyst, […]
In this adapted excerpt from his part memoir and part theological treatise, The Devil Wears Nada, Tripp York seeks out the Prince of Darkness by confronting a neo-druid and some Satanists.
Flannery O’Connor insists that good fiction must be grounded in place; in this essay, Andrew W. E. Carlson discovers that the same can be said for church.
In this interview, artist Barry Moser discusses racism, religion, and working amidst mystery.
This collection of paintings by Laura Lasworth were inspired by the life and works of the writer Flannery O’Connor.
Criterion’s May release of Wise Blood (1979, John Huston) makes available the flawed but fascinating artistic meeting of two uncontested American masters, novelist Flannery O’Connor and film maker John Huston.