Oxford American

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 • FALL 2023 * NO. 122

A Deep Wanting to Know

Oxford American

Language of Hunger

Her Retirement, My Retirement

A Louisiana Story

Background Noise

Unspooling Norma Rae

Ja’Tovia Gary’s Cosmic Return

LOVE LETTER FROM KOKOMO • FILMMAKER D. SMITH’S DOCUMENTARY EXPLORES THE LIVES OF BLACK TRANS WOMEN

MADE FOR TV • ON POLLY AND DEBBIE ALLEN’S DIRECTORIAL SAVVY

THE INTIMATE AND THE PUBLIC • On Les Blank and Collaborative Documentary

IS THIS SACRED GROUND? • A Q&A WITH KASI LEMMONS

Toward a Radical Cinematic Horizon • The unrealized works of Toni Cade Bambara and Gloria Naylor

Imagining Through Fabric • The textiles and memories of Cameroon’s Muna Moto

The Black Girl Best Friends at the Survivors Party

In Old Wilmington • How the failed search for a silent film uncovered a lost musician of the Harlem Renaissance

Documenting BodyPoetry and Two Iconic Movie Soundtracks