Oxford American

The Oxford American is a quarterly literary magazine from the United States that focuses on showcasing outstanding Southern literature. It aims to capture the richness and complexity of life in the American South.

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Welcome to Y’all Street: Inside the Summer 2025 Issue

1 week ago | oxfordamerican.org | Frederick McKindra

Self Portrait as the Professor of Astronomy, Miscegenation and Critical Theory at the New Negro Escapist Social and Athletic Club Center for Graduate Studies, 2008 © Rashid Johnson. Courtesy the artist Associate Editor Frederick McKindra on the tension between business and the humanities This introduction appears in the Summer 2025 print edition with the title “Conflicts in the Market.” Order the Y’all Street Issue here.
The Tangled Past and Unsettled Future of Greyhound Racing in West Virginia

2 weeks ago | oxfordamerican.org | Michelle Orange

Two greyhounds at night, 2019, oil on panel by Clare Menck © The artist. Courtesy 99 Loop Gallery In the home of America’s last active tracks, tradition and uncertainty run neck and neck This story appears in the Summer 2025 print edition with the title “Comely in Going.” Pre-order the Y’all Street Issue here. They look ancient because they are. Eight in all, each one led by a teenaged handler in a royal purple t-shirt, the dogs cut a silhouette at odds with their surroundings.
Nostalgia in Diaspora: Bad Bunny and Félix Rodríguez Báez

4 weeks ago | oxfordamerican.org | Alexandra Martinez

Félix Rodríguez Báez, The Shack (El ranchón), 1954, oil on canvas, 25 3/8 x 36 1/4 inches (64 x 92.5 cm), Museo de Arte de Ponce. The Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc. Gift of Lomba. Image courtesy of the artist. From Burnaway, how two artists reflect the collective experience of Caribbean diasporas One of the last times I stepped foot onto my family’s home in Marianao, Cuba, we gathered in the backyard.
Know Your Burger

1 month ago | oxfordamerican.org | David Cook

A version of this story originally appeared in Food as a Verb, an independent media company based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, co-founded by author David Cook and photographer Sarah Unger. Food as a Verb is devoted to spotlighting the people and places within the South’s food landscapes. To eat in modern America is to participate in not-knowing.
Issue 128, Spring 2025

2 months ago | oxfordamerican.org | Madeline Weinfield |Latria Graham

THE FOOD ISSUEIN THE STREETS WITH THE KREWE OF MUNG BEANSRedefining the spirit of New OrleansBy E. M.
Lena Richard’s New Orleans Cookbook

2 months ago | oxfordamerican.org | Mayukh Sen

One night, the chef Lena Richard dreamt of fruit. She pictured a dessert fashioned in the likeness of a watermelon, only one that you could eat “clean through the rind,” as she told the Times-Picayune in 1938. When she awoke, she actualized her vision: She blanketed the bottom of a crescent-shaped mold with whipped cream—the lower half tinted with green food dye, the upper half white—to simulate the fruit’s rind.
Writing Motherhood in Arkansas and the Missouri Ozarks

2 months ago | oxfordamerican.org | Jennifer Case |Bailey Moore |s Jennifer Case

Motherhood, 1905 by Stanisław Wyspiański, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Bailey Gaylin Moore and I both started writing about motherhood around the same time—Moore from the Missouri Ozarks, where she’d grown up, and me from central Arkansas, where I’d moved almost a decade ago.
Oxford American | A Local Loaf

Feb 17, 2025 | oxfordamerican.org | David Cook

Photo by Food as a Verb, Sarah Unger A few years ago, Erik and Lauren Zilen began counting hands. The husband-and-wife owners of Niedlov’s Bakery and Café in Chattanooga, Tennessee, were trying to put a number on everyone involved in making one loaf of Niedlov’s bread. “How many sets of hands did it take?” Erik wondered. In 2016, Erik and Lauren bought Niedlov’s.
Oxford American | Rude Angel

Dec 10, 2024 | oxfordamerican.org | Stephen Deusner

Photograph by Trey Harrison Lori Godwin drove her Chevette to Memphis the first chance she got. Growing up in Savannah, Tennessee—just two hours away but a completely different world—she visited the big city during family trips in the late ’70s and early ’80s, and the place stuck in her imagination. Her older sister, who married and moved to Memphis, would call home and place the phone next to the radio so that Lori could stay up late listening to WEVL.
Makin’ a Dolla Out a Dime

Dec 10, 2024 | oxfordamerican.org | Charles Hughes

Talibah Safiya photograph by Anthony Lorenzo It’s a fitting origin story. As acclaimed Memphis artist Talibah Safiya began work on a new blues-infused project that became her astonishing 2024 album Black Magic, her husband brought her a book that he bought: Angela Davis’s Blues Legacies and Black Feminism. For Safiya, the reading was revelation.