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 94, Fall 2016
In the Oxford American’s 94th issue, Rachel Monroe, a 2016 Livingston Award finalist, reports on the radical activist community of tiny Lake Worth, Florida. In West Virginia, Catherine Venable Moore investigates the worst industrial disaster in U.S. history (with wet-plate photographs by Lisa Elmaleh).
The issue also includes Asher Elbein’s chronicle of the rise and fall of a black cult in rural Georgia; fiction by George Singleton and Ben Stroud; a critical appreciation of Lillian Smith by Diane Roberts; a graphic essay by Kristen Radtke; and much more. The cover image is “Fay & Persimmon” by Ben Davis.
Points South
Lyndsie Bourgon on a church’s Acadian migration
Poke Salad, a story by Stephanie Soileau
J. Drew Lanham remembers Daddy’s good name
Gwendolyn Knapp among the plumeria addicts
The Frog of War, by Jake J. Smith
Andrew Paul looks South toward Israel
The Safest Place in Kentucky, a graphic essay by Kristen Radtke
¡Viva la Huelga!, by Daniel Blue Tyx
André Gallant in the garden of refugees
Local Fare: The Harris Hegemony, by John T. Edge
Poetry
Dollar General, by Erika Meitner
The Pastor, by Michael Shewmaker
Features
MONKEYWRENCH
Travels in Radical Florida
by Rachel Monroe
THE ROAD TO TAMA-RE
A Disappearance, a Con Man, and the Lingering Ruins of His Improvised Religion
by Asher Elbein
COLUMBUS DAY
a story by George Singleton
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD
In Fayette County, West Virginia, Expanding the Document of Disaster
by Catherine Venable Moore
MY DEAR MASTER LISZT
a story by Ben Stroud
Omnivore
STAY AND RESIST
Learning from Lillian Smith
by Diane Roberts
Cooking with Chris:
MOON BALLS
by Chris Offutt
Art by Ben Davis, Amy Sherald, Andi Schreiber, Ashleigh Coleman, Karine Laval, Eliot Dudik, Polixeni Papapetrou, Deborah Luster, Heidi L. Kirkpatrick, Bill Aron, Kristen Radtke, Annie Donovan, Tammy Mercure, Aaron Canipe, Julie Branaman, Michelle A. M. Miller, Maury Gortemiller, Anderson Scott, Tom Martin, Lisa Elmaleh, Letitia Huckaby, Carrie Mae Weems, John Baldessari
Cover: “Fay & Persimmon” by Ben Davis, from the series After Jordan