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LOWCOUNTRY FOR OLD HEADS: IN PICTURES

A supplement to our South Carolina Music Issue A rap IT octopus, Matt “DJ Wiz” Jones always kept a spare hand for taking pictures and his photo album from that era is an adhesive historic designation.

By Dave Tompkins

THE LAND

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. As Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) audio director John Biewen preps for the next season of Scene on Radio, the podcast is headed to 5 million...

By John Biewen

A TRIBUTE TO MAXWELL GEORGE

Farewell to Deputy Editor Maxwell George On Max’s last day at the Oxford American, we’re sharing ten highlights from his years with the magazine.

By Eliza Borné

EPISODE FOUR: MARY ANN AND ONE EYED DAN

A new episode of Points South is now playing! Subscribe today and never miss an episode. Episode Four features the OA editors discussing the upcoming South Carolina Music Issue and sharing...

By Sara A. Lewis

WHY

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. For twenty years, football was my purpose, my reason, white lines and rules for everything, the scoreboard keeping track of it all. Do I want...

By Eli Cranor

AMOR FATI: LET’S GET IT ON

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. In my research following Leibniz and Spinoza as their paths cross and then diverge, I became interested more broadly in the failure of the...

By Christopher Brunt

PRE-ORDER THE SOUTH CAROLINA MUSIC ISSUE

NASA astronaut Ronald McNair is the cover star of the 21st Annual Southern Music Issue & Sampler featuring South Carolina!

By Oxford American

MARVIN GAYE: LIVE IN AMSTERDAM 1976

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. This is the most Marvin Gaye sentiment ever. There is no such thing as a fun, cheap fling in the Marvin Gaye universe. There is no hedonistic...

By Elizabeth Nelson

CELESTIAL NAVIGATION

An excerpt from the collection Step Into the Circle: Writers in Modern Appalachia . In my family, the women of generations past—and sometimes present—often found themselves without choices...

By Jason Kyle Howard

CAUGHT IN THE CRAZY QUILT

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. Below the quilt is a daybed where I would lie as a child when I was sick or restless, or just wanted my mother’s company as she worked. The...

By Katy Simpson Smith

EPISODE THREE: A CEMETERY ANGEL

A new episode of Points South is now playing! Subscribe today and never miss an episode. Episode Three features Arkansas’s “cemetery angel,” Ruth Coker Burks, John Jeremiah Sullivan’s...

By Sara A. Lewis

ONLY LOVE TO SHARE

A review of Scott Avett’s debut museum exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of Art . While Avett is far better-known as a musician than a painter—the Avett Brothers’ new album Closer Than...

By David Menconi

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