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.
“This new issue of the Oxford American is, far and away, the best one we’ve produced. … In any event, here is the new issue, replete with writing of a most thrilling and engaging strain.… spectacular artwork, and wild hogs, not in that order." — Editor’s Note
Includes a previously unpublished short story Zora Neale Hurston, with more fiction by John Grisham. Essays by Donna Tartt and Lewis Nordan. “My Friend Forrest Gump” by Willie Morris.
BLACK DEATH
by Zora Neale Hurston
THE QUESTION OF FATHER MURPHY'S SIN
by Pepper Smith
THE BIRTHDAY
by John Grisham
SWARNER AND ME TALKING
by John Fulton
IN MELBOURNE
by Donna Tartt
THE MAKING OF A BOOK
by Lewis Nordan
PHOTOGRAPHS
by Ken Light
MY FRIEND FORREST GUMP
by Willie Morris
BACK VALLEY LIBRARY • GOOD COBB • BADD COBB • NORTH GEORGIA WEDDING • WE'RE ALL MISS AMERICAS
FROM THE JOURNALS OF A COMMERCIAL TRAVELER
by John Fergus Ryan
BE KIND TO YOUR WEB-FOOTED KINFOLK
by Florence King
APPALACHIAN BOARDOM
by Jonathan Miles
CHARLIE VERGOS'S RENDEZVOUS
by Lindapeal White
CHALET SUZANNE
by Scott M. Morris
INTRUDER IN THE DUST
by Steve Vineberg
BERTRAM WYATT-BROWN'S THE HOUSE OF PERCY AND THE LITERARY PERCYS
by Fred Hobson
WILLIAM STYRON'S DARKNESS VISIBLE and REYNOLDS PRICE'S A WHOLE NEW LIFE
by Steven Harvey
Cover art by Bill Mayer