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

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