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

Dredging the Sea

Oxford American

Don’t Bleed on the Artwork: Notes from the Afterlife

Dream State (As Citrus)

What If It All Burned Down?

Hosanna Japa Town

Dream State (As Conception)

Plain Art

Dream State (As Afterlife)

The Entwining of Matter • Dianna Settles infuses her paintings with flora, earth, water, and breath

Ground Control • Digital surveillance, global capitalism, and Gobelin tapestry

Elegy • Dawoud Bey makes the past visible in the present

Re/Educated • On painting a new record of Indigenous history

The Work

Sunny Side Up • Notes from inside the crate

Strange Parallels • Looking closely at the other Panama City

Tammie Rubin’s Counter-Cartography • The artist reclaims truths and lives, lost and forgotten

FLASH OF THE SPIRIT • How photographer Rose Marie Cromwell sees the world

THE MYTHIC AND THE EVERYDAY • Artist Raul Rene Gonzalez finds the beauty and the iconic in domestic life

THE THREADS OF TIME AND PLACE • Sonya Yong James creates monumental moments thread by thread