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Celebrate 30 years of the OA.

With original work from Imani Perry, Kristen Arnett, Diane Roberts, and so many others, our Spring Issue honors our past and looks into our expansive future.

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Diane Roberts

About

Diane Roberts’s most recent book is Tribal: College Football and the Secret Heart of America. She lives in Tallahassee and is currently at work on a series of essays on white women.

Articles

The Pleasure Domes of Florida

By Diane Roberts
Issue 68, Spring 2010

People of the Cake

I come from a family of cake fundamentalists. No mixes, no faux cream, no margarine, no imitation vanilla, no all-purpose flour.

By Diane Roberts

Find Your Ground

By Diane Roberts
Issue 82, Fall 2013

Game of Tribes

It’s not that Michigan or Minnesota or Arizona or Oregon isn’t just as crazy for college ball as the next ESPN-U subscriber, it’s just that the South, the land of the Hatfields and the McCoys, has...

By Diane Roberts

The Blue Ether of Another World

By Diane Roberts

Stay and Resist

By Diane Roberts

Lunchtime at Rancho Grande

By Diane Roberts
Issue 106, Fall 2019

Letter Imperfect

By Diane Roberts
Issue 116, Spring 2022

Miss Betty

Being a “lady” is, of course, about class and race. Being a “lady” depends on some women—many women—never gaining admission to the club.

By Diane Roberts