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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The Oxford American
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Even Jesus Left
Tell the Kids I Love Them • For Valerie Boyd
The Tyrant
Channel Orange Taught Me
Really Gone
A LONG GEORGIA NIGHT • THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF MATTIE GREEN
SAEED, OR THE OTHER ONE • EXCERPTED FROM ALIVE AT THE END OF THE WORLD
SHAKING THE TREE • The gnarled history of Houston’s live oaks
EL HOGAR QUE COMPARTIMOS HOMES WE SHARE
Hunting The Lonely Heart • What made Carson McCullers so different from everyone else in her sad and faraway hometown of Columbus, Georgia?
WRONG-HEADED AND IRRESISTABLE
Omnivore
THE NEW BEND • Contemporary weaving artist Diedrick Brackens reinterprets a centuries-old quilting tradition
THE BEGGING SONG OF GRAND MAMOU • How one of the oldest songs in America lives on
COSMIC REQUILTING • A new exhibition by Sanford Biggers deftly remixes the patchwork of history
ON MASCULINITY, THE POWER OF THE WORD, AND FINDING ZION