What Ethan Hawke’s ‘Wildcat’ Gets Right About Flannery O’Connor

What Ethan Hawke’s ‘Wildcat’ Gets Right About Flannery O’Connor

Nobody’s ever really known what to do with Mary Flannery O’Connor. They didn’t know when she was alive, and they haven’t known since she died in 1964, at 39, after years of battling through lupus to write her nervy, weird stories about Southerners, sin, religion and the God to whom she prayed so fervently. Her … Read more

‘Wildcat’ Review: Seeing Flannery O’Connor Through Her Stories

‘Wildcat’ Review: Seeing Flannery O’Connor Through Her Stories

Bedridden and anguished, the writer Flannery O’Connor is visited by a priest (Liam Neeson in a cameo) in “Wildcat,” starring Maya Hawke. Tormented by spiritual agony and the systemic lupus that would kill her at 39, O’Connor, a lifelong Catholic, beseeches him: “I long for grace,” she cries. “I see it, I know it’s there, … Read more