The Oxford American is a national magazine dedicated to featuring the very best in Southern writing while documenting the complexity and vitality of the American South. Billed as "The Southern Magazine of Good Writing," it has won two National Magazine Awards and other high honors since it began publication in 1992.
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Blooms, Greens, and Portals
Oxford American
Points South
Dear Queen • The land that saved you, Mama
Reign of the Silver King
Clearing Ground in Georgia’s New Cannabis Country
Suffering Embarrassments in a Small Town
The Persistence of Memory • Searching for James Baldwin in Alabama
Brackish Water • How the TVA deals with the living and the dead
Outskirts
The Worm Charmers • A Florida family coaxes earthworms from the forest floor
Omnivore
AN ARCHIVE OF ONE’S OWN • A conversation with photographer Julie Rae Powers
WILD LUNCH • Edible botanicals, documented with an artist’s eye
SOUTHERN ARTISTIC INGENUITY AND A BLACK COUNTRY SYLLABUS