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.
“Man loves to fight, must fight, must do, must conquer a day or lie shiftless, moaning and feckless. Many have felt this…” — Barry Hannah in “Old Terror, New Hearts”
Barry Hannah reports on “Inside Louisiana’s Leper Colony.” Short stories by Debra Leigh Scott and Richard Rubin. Julia Reed explains Southern fashion. Photography by Tom Roster in Canton, Mississippi. Marc Smirnoff writes about That Bookstore in Blytheville. Interview with Joel Schumacher, the director of A Time to Kill. Other contributors include Charles Taylor, Fred Hobson, Thomas Easterling, and Robert Brinkerhoff.
THE ACCIDENTS OF MAN
by Debra Leigh Scott
NOVEMBER
by Richard Rubin
OLD TERROR, NEW HEARTS
Inside Louisiana's Leper Colony
by Barry Hannah
SOUTHERN FASHION EXPLAINED
by Julia Reed
ON LOCATION IN CANTON, MISSISSIPPI
by Tom Roster
THE CRIME SCENE • LIBERTY FOR Y'ALL • THE PATTY WAGON
ELVIS WEEK CONFIDENTIAL
by John Fergus Ryan
LOOK HOMEWARD, THOMAS
by Thomas Easterling
A DAY NO FISH WOULD DIE
by Jonathon Miles
Joel Schumacher: DIRECTOR OF A TIME TO KILL
IN MEMORIAM: CHARLIE RICH
by Charles Taylor
THAT BOOKSTORE IN BLYTHEVILLE
by Marc Smirnoff
LEE SMITH: THIS WORLD IS NOT MY OWN
by Charles Taylor
B.C. HALL & C.T. WOOD: TELLING ABOUT THE SOUTH
by Fred Hobson
WALKER PERCY'S THE SECOND COMING
by Robert Brinkerhoff