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SUMMER OF SONS

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. Here is what I know: becoming a parent made me a better writer; being a better writer made me a better parent. Now, as the number of children...

By Christopher Brunt

THE WHO ROCKS AMERICA: 1982 AMERICAN TOUR

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. They had announced in August of that year that it would be their final outing and Toronto was the final stop on it. I must consider what or...

By Elizabeth Nelson

Film

Social Engineering at the Atomic Lounge

A video supplement to “Social Engineering” by John T. Edge, published in the Summer 2019 issue.

By Ethan Payne

A STEINWAY RETREAT

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. She’s an 1897 Steinway Model A, with flowerpot legs and a music stand that rises from the keys in a tangle of filigreed wood. When I first...

By Katy Simpson Smith

WRITE TO THE OXFORD AMERICAN

We would like to hear from you. The magazine will begin publishing letters to the editor in the fall issue and going forward. If you would like to respond to a story...

By Oxford American

ACCOMPANIED WOMAN

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. To him, my life as an eager, emerging writer was entertaining—inspiring maybe—and our excursions were his break from mind-numbing corporate...

By Osayi Endolyn

ON BEING SEEN

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. Although we’d been learning about his work since Sherrill first arrived at CDS in September 2018, our D.C. journey with him would be the first...

By Amber Delgado

HEART

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. Every football coach I ever had saw it. “You got heart, kid,” they’d say, and I’d grin, all the way to the end zone.

By Eli Cranor

No Tears Suite: Live from New Orleans

VIEWS FROM THE BLACK SITE

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. I thought they were zany, quippy, tender, uproariously profane. In the crosstalk and hubbub, in the backstories of these women I would learn...