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NATASHA TRETHEWEY: LANGUAGE AND RUTHLESSNESS

When I was named poet laureate of the State of Mississippi, it was a big deal to me because it was “the state that made a crime // of me.” To go from that world to ostensibly being the most publicly...

By Claire Schwartz

OBSESSED, UNKNOWN

A collector ambles down to his basement, tripping on boxes packed with rabid miscellany. He hears Julien Baker’s “Blacktop” wilting from the turntable in the living room. Somewhere on the highway, a...

By Oxford American

THE YEAR IN STORIES

This year saw numerous milestones for the  Oxford American, but nothing stands out more than the stories we were fortunate enough to publish. Here are just a few of many highlights from the...

By Oxford American

THEY CALL HER BAD GIRL

A heartbreaking deep soul classic by Atlanta’s Lee Moses almost became the third ’60s-era song called “Bad Girl” to grace an OA music issue CD.

By Eliza Borné

FOX-TEETH IN YOUR HEART

I guess I usually begin with a situation, maybe a “what if” question. In “Blood Brothers” it was “what if these meth heads in East Tennessee got their hands on Grindr?” That was back when the Grindr...

By Grant Taylor

OXFORD AMERICAN RECEIVES $20,000 ART WORKS GRANT

Today, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) announced awards totaling more than $27.6 million in its first funding round of fiscal year 2016, including an Art Works award of $20,000 to the ...

By Oxford American

HOOT YOUR BELLY

George Mitchell’s recordings and photographs of the blues music and culture of Georgia’s Lower Chattahoochee Valley document a once-thriving American musical tradition drawing its last defiant breath.

By Brian Crews

GRANDMAMA, OUTKAST, STANK

Kiese Laymon reads from his essay “Da Art of Storytellin’ (A Prequel)” from the Oxford American’s Georgia Music Issue.

By Oxford American

YOUR TRUTH, YOUR WAY

The truth is, I had no intention of making a life out of writing until I read an article on OutKast by a writer from my hometown of Jackson, Mississippi. So when the  Oxford American asked...

By Kiese Laymon

WHAT SAM PHILLIPS HEARD

Peter Guralnick on his new book, the nature of biography, and the endless complexities of Sam Phillips.

By Jonathan Bernstein

THE GEORGIA MUSIC ISSUE

From the country blues to early jazz to gospel, soul, metal, rock & roll, hip-hop, and beyond—there isn’t a corner of American music the people of this state haven’t made their own.

By Oxford American
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ALEX MAR’S JOURNEY INTO THE OCCULT

This Pagan world is a discreet part of American religious history that hadn’t been told of yet, outside of very small snippets in books that are really for the community itself. There’s power in...

By Caitlin Love

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