Oxford American

The Magazine of the South debuts a new look! Featuring an updated cover design, new fonts, and a higher page count to accommodate more fine art and photography, the magazine has been redesigned to create a more comfortable and enjoyable experience for readers.

Highlights from the issue include Boyce Upholt’s deeply reported feature on a Louisiana tribe facing eviction due to climate change; an exclusive excerpt from Van Jensen and Nate Powell’s graphic novel, Two Dead; and a suite of poems from Nathaniel Mackey paired with collages by Tschabalala Self.

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A NEW LOOK

Magic

A Long Yarn

Letter Imperfect

You Call That Wild • for Max’s mother in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are

The Best That I Have

The Great American Press Release

Three Ghost Variations

Pater Familias

GOODBYE TO GOOD EARTH • A LOUISIANA TRIBE’S LONG FIGHT AGAINST THE AMERICAN TIDE

from DOUBLE TRIO

TWO DEAD • Like many cities, Little Rock is a place of ghosts. The dead hover and haunt, though their stories often go untold. This story is a work of fiction inspired by some of those ghosts, who lived a tale the city tried to forget—of the mob and cops and gamblers, the good and the bad, and the hazy in-between. The violence they knew was real and ugly, with consequences, not a thing to be celebrated or courted. In those days it was impossible to escape. The story begins with a man named Gideon, back home from World War II …

Godmother Tea

SACRED PLACE • Paddling to Walter Inglis Anderson’s Horn Island

EVERYTHING HE WROTE WAS GOOD • The pieces of Johnny Greene

BEDFELLOWS FOREVER • Male romantic friendships in art and life

A POINTE TOWARD BLACKNESS • Could Lucy Negro Redux beckon a new era for ballet?

MY MOTHER’S CATFISH STEW