REVIEW: Why Do the Heathen Rage?

Staring down our own limitations requires the greatest degree of courage. Writing in 1963 to editor and anthologist Sr. Mariella Gable, novelist Flannery O’Connor forthrightly unburdens herself of the creative and spiritual barriers preventing her next work: “I can’t do again what I know I can do well, and the larger things I need to do now, I doubt my capacity for doing.”