Caroline McCoy

Sep 5, 2023 | theamericanscholar.org | Caroline McCoy

For more than two years, I have lived in the lower level of Flannery O’Connor’s childhood home, which sits on a quiet residential block in downtown Savannah, Georgia. I had studied O’Connor’s life and work in graduate school, and it was my research that enabled me to recognize the gray façade of the author’s first residence during a routine Zillow search. This happened one morning in late September 2020, at the height of the pandemic.

Sep 5, 2023 | theamericanscholar.org | Ilan Stavans |Megan Craig |Christian Wiman |Caroline McCoy

Articles The photographic language of Dorothea Lange conveyed order and beauty in a dusty, impoverished America by Megan Craig Can poetry truly supply the language to express the ineffable sensations of suffering and love? by Christian Wiman What we know of Flannery O’Connor’s childhood—and how her views on race took shape—is incomplete if her caretaker Emma Jackson remains in obscurity by Caroline McCoy Reckoning with 9/11, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and most recently the Covid-19...