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On Churchgoing, Style, And Being Deranged

By Matthew Neill Null

Mothers Pray Out

By The Como Mamas

An African-american Scholar, A White Southerner From Appalachia, And A New Southern-latina Walk Into A Conference And Grab The Microphone

By Sandra Gutierrez

Bramble Road

Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil

Listen to Rev. Sekou’s powerful album Times Like These , paired with an essay by the activist artist.  Mama taught me to read when I was four years old. It was my job to read the mail for Miss...

By Rev. Sekou

FAITH FROM THE SHORES OF DOUBT

Michael Shewmaker’s exceptional debut hinges on the need not to resolve form but to further open it, a puzzle, a question, as though the very act of questioning keeps him in balance.

By Chad Abushanab

The Bestoink Dooley Fan Club

Outskirts of the Southern Canon

By Will Stephenson

THE CHILDREN OF EMMETT TILL

An installment in our weekly series, The By and By. From the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University: To introduce our first story for  The By and By, a writing-and-audio narrative...

By Timothy B. Tyson

Up To And Including The Pectoral Fins

By Matthew Neill Null

RIVER MUSIC

A conversation with the Georgia-bred, North Carolina-based singer and guitarist Jake Xerxes Fussell. “It’s hard to say what a song is after a while, it’s been through so many lives and...

By Jacob Rosenberg

VILLAGE PRODIGIES

A web feature showcasing excerpts from Village Prodigies, Rodney Jones’ new collection, to which the author refers as a “political satire, a harmony of narcissists, a fable, a reverb cartoon, a...

By Rodney Jones

DEFYING THE REGIONAL LABEL

Yesterday, the  Washington Post’s Book World editor, Ron Charles,  applauded the  Oxford American’s Spring 2017 issue (which hits newsstands today) and joined us in celebrating...

By Oxford American