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 11, Spring 1996
“I hope this Special Issue of the Oxford American, in some little way least, brings into focus something of the true horror and size of America’s crime problem. Much of what we examine in these pages is nightmarish, but when you look at crime . . . you don’t get it any other way.” — Editor’s Letter
Features by Sister Helen Prejean, Donna Tartt, Julia Reed, Paige Williams, and more.
Fiction by Clyde Edgerton, Tom Paine, and Brad Watson. End Piece by Steve Yarbrough, and more.
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FEATURES
MEMORIES OF A DEAD MAN WALKING
by Sister Helen Prejean
MURDER & IMAGINATION
by Donna Tartt
IN DEFENSE OF SOUTHERN WOMANHOOD: HOW TO KILL YOUR MAN AND WALK
by Julia Reed
THE CHIEF OF CHARLESTON: REUBEN GREENBERG
by Paige Williams
EVIL HEARTS: THE KENTUCKY RACE MURDER OF 1995
by Dennis Covington
DEATH ROW PORTRAITS
by John Ramsey Miller
SHORT STORIES
SEND ME TO THE ELECTRIC CHAIR
by Clyde Edgerton
SCAR VEGAS
by Tom Paine
KINDRED SPIRITS
by Brad Watson
DEPARTMENTS
THE FAILED SOUTHERN LADY
POOR BLEEDING BOHEMIA
by Florence King
DEALER’S CHOICE
UNSAFE AT ANY SPEED
by Hal Crowther
PERSONAL ESSAY
MY LIFE OF CRIME
by Joy Tremewan
WHAT HAPPENED TO ME
by Cristen Coker
OPINION
THE SOUTH MUST SAVE THE UNION
by Andrew Peyton Thomas
ESSAY
A TRUE THING
by Carroll Dale Short
FIELD REPORT
DELTA CRACK
by Humphreys McGee
TRUTH INTERNATIONAL
by Linda Peal White
PSYCHOLOGY
FREEDOM FROM FEAR
by John Staddon
ANALYSIS
CRIME IN THE SOUTH
by Dave Shifflett
SOUTHERN VIDEO
MR. MITCHUM & THE FUGITIVE KINDS
by Randy Thornton
SOUTHERN DINING
A TASTE OF DANGER
by Stephanie Riegel
THE WRITING LIFE
ON CREATING VIOLENCE
by Richard Bausch
SOUTHERN BOOKS
WHITE MAN'S BURDEN
by Stephanie Zacharek
BLOODYBONES NIGHT
by Jonathan Miles
SALVATION IN ORDER
by Fred Chappell
CONFESSIONAL
BAD GIRLS
by Allison Glock
POETRY
FIFE THE FINISHER
by J.E. Pitts
COMICS
END PIECE
ON STEALING
by Steve Yarbrough