Oxford American

The Oxford American features 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 multiple National Magazine Awards and other high honors since it began publication in 1992. The magazine has featured the original work of such literary powerhouses as Charles Portis, Roy Blount, Jr., ZZ Packer, Jesmyn Ward, Donald Harington, Sarah M. Broom, Donna Tartt, and Ernest J. Gaines. The magazine has also published previously unseen work by such Southern masters as William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Walker Percy, James Agee, Zora Neale Hurston, James Dickey and Carson McCullers, to name just a handful. The New York Times claims that the Oxford American "may be the liveliest literary magazine in America."

Contributors

A Fair, Delectable Place • An introduction to the Home Issue

Oxford American

Mister Anthony

Space Elk

Memory Architecture • Devotion to a Florida home

The Bullshit Express

A Record of Breath • Archiving a life at the edge of disposal

Chronicles of the Windrush Generation #51

Steward of the Inanimate World

Something Like Home • A reflection on mess and the ritual of homemaking

Can I get Boho Knotless? Medium Size. Middle Part.

JOHN JENNINGS’ IMAGINED WORLDS ALL CONTAIN A BIT OF MISSISSIPPI

GONE AND ALMOST LOST • Artist Robert Gordy’s legacy was nearly smudged out

THE SNAKE UNDERNEATH THE CHAIR • A look at how and where we land to find home again

LIKE IT IS, LIKE IT WAS

PROFESSOR MITCHELL VERSUS • A SOUTHERN RADICAL CONFRONTS AMERICAN HIGHER EDUCATION

The Dream in the Valley • How the Orr brothers’ vision of sustainable living in Arkansas died and rose again

LOOKIN’ THROUGH THE WINDOWS: JULY 1973

Beds • Who gets the right to take up space in our hospitals?

Three Poems

Generous Terms • AN EXCERPT FROM The Occidental Book of the Dead

The Twang of Black Resilience • Blackbirding by Queen Esther

Home is Where the OA Is Take advantage of our special double edition deal!

My Neighborhood

After My Son Announces His Favorite Color is Pink