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.
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.
What history gets saved, and why, and by whom? These questions drive several pieces in the Fall 2018 issue, which features cover art by Kerry James Marshall.
Plus: Tom Piazza rides shotgun with John Prine in his 1977 Coupe de Ville. Beth Macy, author of Dopesick, profiles Robert Gipe and his change-making art in Appalachia. And Nick Tabor examines Orthodox Christianity in the South through the life story of a controversial monk.
Editor’s Letter: Past Imperfect, by Eliza Borné
Will Bostwick digs a gospel music archive
Stay Away from Places with Directions in Their Names, a story by David Wesley Williams
Kelsey Norris on a Nashville descendants project
Tokyo to Davao City, by Helene Achanzar
Nell Boeschenstein reports from a disappearing lake
Megan Mayhew Bergman and the ravens of Paris
Local Fare: Folk Witness, by John T. Edge
Returning to a Moment, by Curtis Bauer
Elements of Accounting, by Sandy Longhorn
LIVING IN THE PRESENT WITH JOHN PRINE
Old car, new shoes
by Tom Piazza
MANY SINGLETONS
War, ownership, and family ties in Tennessee
by Danielle Chapman
THE MOUNTAINS AREN’T EMPTY
Robert Gipe at capacity’s ragged edge
by Beth Macy
THE LIGHT OF SALVATION
Father Damian Hart and the pull of the Orthodox Church
by Nick Tabor
POSTHUMOUS PORTRAIT
a story by Lee Conell
LIGHT THE WORLD
Anne Spencer’s ecosystem of art and activism
by Tess Taylor
SAFE HOUSES
Sarah Winchester and the legacy of living with guns
by Sara A. Lewis
Cooking with Chris:
LARD HAVE MERCY
by Chris Offutt
Art by Kerry James Marshall, L. Kasimu Harris, Vaughn Sills, Suzy Schultz, David Rathman, Wardell Milan, Emily Shur, Lars Elling, Walker Pickering, Catherine McCarthy, Gina Beavers, David McClister, Titus Kaphar, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Chris Jones, Ben Schonzeit, Deborah Bay, Yana Dimitrova
Cover: Untitled (2009) © Kerry James Marshall. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York