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.

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The Oxford American

Points South

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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