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.
Contributors
Editor’s Letter • “Every Brush Stroke, a Breath”
Oxford American
Points South • OXFORD AMERICAN
The Things We Leave Behind
Who Is Sam Blow?
Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist
Front-Page News
The Old-Time Sounds of Clifftop
Five Hours from Someplace Beautiful
PINOCCHIO
Four Poems
The Long Wake of the Storm • Six years later, Barbuda still reckons with one of history’s strongest hurricanes
Dear Atlanta: Manipulation of the Reflection • In her visual love letter to ATL, Nicole Hernandez photographs authentic interactions between friends, lovers, and mothers.
Fifteens
Omnivore • OXFORD AMERICAN
GOD’S SILENCE, HUMANITY’S DEAFNESS • On Cormac McCarthy’s two new novels
MADNESS IN THE CUPBOARDS • billy woods’s gripping rhymes elevate the ordinary
ON REVENGE PLOTS AND PRESTIGE TV PARABLES