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Dive into Memphis magic with our 26th Annual Southern Music Issue!

From Al Green to Elvis, explore iconic photography and fresh takes on legends through stellar writing from Zandria Robinson, Robert Gordon & more.

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Issue 127, Winter 2024

Prologue: The Sound of You

We gravitated toward stories and songs that show how self-expression fuels innovation, or the specific magic that can happen when place and personality align.

By Patrick D. McDermott
Issue 127, Winter 2024

Memphis Music LP: Credits & Liner Notes

The full track list for our limited-edition Memphis mixtape, plus notes and credits for each song.

By Oxford American
Web Feature

Nikki Giovanni’s Extraterrestrial Adventures

Going to Mars is a love letter to longtime fans of Giovanni’s work.

By Hanna Phifer
Issue 81, Summer 2013

Scare ’em a Little

“...if Tav Falco ever had an editor, he’d never have had a career.”

By Robert Gordon

Craft and Subtlety

Photographs that emulate, in color, the craft and subtlety Lee Friedlander, Garry Winogrand, and Diane Arbus cultivated in black and white.

By Maude Schuyler Clay
Issue 88, Spring 2015

Rudy Lombard’s Feast of Freedom

Ramble, young man, ramble!

By Lolis Eric Elie

“Reckoning comes before reconciliation and often begins at the table.”

—Alice Randall

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Web Feature

Dispatches From Mississippi’s Parchman Prison

If a day comes, I regain my freedom more than the freedom on the inside, I’ll shall cherish it the rest of my days.

By Vox Press
Web Feature

The Corpsewood Manor Murders

“Once you reach that road—you’ll feel it.”

By Luke Gregson
Web Feature

Life in Asheville After Hurricane Helene

We are alive: deliriously, irritably alive.

By Melanie McGee Bianchi
Web Feature

The Toxic Wave That Swallowed a Tennessee Town

“Get to Kingston,” Henry added. “They’ve had a blowout down here.”

By Jared Sullivan

Eyes on the South

From Black, Queer, & Untold: A New Archive of Artists, Designers, and Trailblazers

By Jon Key

A Way to Get Gone

By Darryl DeAngelo Terrell

A Way Home

By Jay Simple

I-10 Runs Through It

By Johanna Warwick

Devil's Half Acre

By Ajay Malghan

“God bless America and God bless the Oxford American…”

—Dolly Parton

Podcast

Points South

Daisy Bates in Mitchellville

Join producer Christian Leus for part two of our story about Mitchellville, Arkansas, as she explores the history and legacy of the Mitchellville Self-Help Project, led by Daisy Bates.
Points South

Foundations of a Black Town

Producer Christian Leus travels to Mitchellville, Arkansas, a small Black town close to the Mississippi state line. Mitchellville’s story is little...
Points South

Points South Live: Otis Redding Foundation and Macon Music Revue

Our 25th annual Southern Music Issue is on newsstands now! Join us for a special celebration of one of the South’s greatest balladeers: Otis Redding....

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Memphis x Magic Collection

Memphis and magic collide in this enchanting collaboration with Memphis-based La Panthère Studio!

You can’t spell GOAT without OA!

Here is a little braggadocious humor to celebrate over 30 years of Oxford American, including 26 years of our beloved annual Southern Music Issues!