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The Oxford American’s spring issue includes a fascinating opus on Afro-Cuban religions in Miami, Ben Fountain’s short story about a woman existing in a bewildering in-between place after the death of her mother, and an epic reported feature by Emily Gogolak with photographs by Gabriella Demczuk on Dilley, Texas, home of the South Texas Family Residential Center.
Plus: a community searches for a mass grave in Thibodaux, Louisiana, KaToya Ellis Fleming resurrects the work of novelist Frank Yerby, and Casey Parks profiles a New Orleans principal who has an innovative plan to prepare black students for college.
Editor’s Letter: The Messy Middle, by Eliza Borné
Career Girl Meets Rock Star, by Malinda Maynor Lowery
The Wild, six love poems by Seth Pennington and Bryan Borland
Nothing Stays the Same, by Jeanie Riess
The Virgin, a story by Ashleigh Bryant Phillips
What Is Lost, by Wei Tchou
The Ghosts of Georgetown County, by John Thomason
An Intersection at the End of America
A portrait of Dilley, Texas, home of the largest immigration detention center in the United States
by Emily Gogolak
Cane Creek
A story by Ben Fountain
Persons Unknown
A community’s search for a mass grave in Thibodaux, Louisiana
by Rosemary Westwood
On Sacred Ground
Afro-Cuban religions find a home in Florida
by Jordan Blumetti
Sense of Strength
A New Orleans principal’s innovative plan to prepare black students for college
by Casey Parks
You Never Can Tell About a River
My search for Frank Yerby and our Augusta, Georgia
by KaToya Ellis Fleming
Buh Black Snake in New England
A prep school teacher, Walker Percy, and the power of Gullah folktales
by Benjamin Anastas
Local Fare:
Getting the Look
by John T. Edge
Art by: Emerald Arguelles, Dale Niles, Joe Rudko, E.A. Bethea, Maria Sturm, Matthew Finley, J.T. Blatty, Tim Davis, Bess Adler, Justin Cook, Gabriella Demczuk, Tatiana Trouvé, Nina Robinson, Alberto del Pozo, Casey Parks, Romare Bearden, Nathan Gelgud, and Walker Evans
Cover: “For Nakeya” (2019), by Emerald Arguelles