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.
Magazine
Issue 101, Summer 2018
In our third annual Southern Journeys feature, five writers travel far and near—from Cuba to Hawaii to Tennessee and Texas—in search of understanding: about their personal histories and roots, about our neighbors and changing landscape.
Contributors include: Lucas Loredo, Lisa Coffman, Daniel Blue Tyx, Holly Haworth, Justin Nobel, Renee Simms, Osayi Endolyn, and John T. Edge. Plus: short stories from Becky Hagenston and Caroline Beimford—and much more.
Editor’s Letter: Novel Roads, by Eliza Borné
Points South
Atlanta Hellride, by Noah Gallagher Shannon
Osayi Endolyn visits the FAMU farm
Storage and Retrieval, a story by Becky Hagenston
Renee Simms researches her grandmother’s home
Local Fare: Dixie Vodka, by John T. Edge
Southern Journeys
MOTHER TONGUE
Sifting my fractured family’s past in our Cuban homeland
by Lucas Loredo
FUGITIVE PLATEAU
On the trail of a tragedy in the Big South Fork
by Lisa Coffman
RIDING THE TORNADO
Documenting migrant workers’ cross-country journey
by Daniel Blue Tyx
THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING MY FATHER
Hawaii fragments
by Holly Haworth
DRIVING THE SUNKEN COAST
The cycle of storm and development continues
by Justin Nobel
Features
FINDING BIG MAN
Brother Dynamite in reflection
by John O’Connor
FEELING THE SPIRIT
a story by Caroline Beimford
Omnivore
EVERYTHING WENT WILD
Reading Florida
by Sarah Viren
Cooking with Chris:
NOBODY LIKES ME
by Chris Offutt
Art by Meg Griffiths, Woodrow White, Raul Gonzalez, David Morico, Allison Janae Hamilton, Julia Jacquette, Jonas Wood, Leo Twiggs, Till Gerhard, Tria Giovan, Kim Dorland, Jeremy M. Lange, Jenny Sathngam, S. Gayle Stevens and Judy F. Sherrod, Wadsworth Jarrell, Anastasia Samoylova, Samantha French, Jackson Hallberg, Maximilian Toth
Cover: “De las montañas” (2014), by Meg Griffiths, from the series Casa Particular. Published in the book Casa de fruta y pan (Aint–Bad)