Oxford American

The Oxford American features the very best in Southern writing, while documenting the complexity and vitality of the American South. Billed as "The Southern Magazine of Good Writing," it has won multiple National Magazine Awards and other high honors since it began publication in 1992. The magazine has featured the original work of such literary powerhouses as Charles Portis, Roy Blount, Jr., ZZ Packer, Jesmyn Ward, Donald Harington, Sarah M. Broom, Donna Tartt, and Ernest J. Gaines. The magazine has also published previously unseen work by such Southern masters as William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Walker Percy, James Agee, Zora Neale Hurston, James Dickey and Carson McCullers, to name just a handful. The New York Times claims that the Oxford American "may be the liveliest literary magazine in America."

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CONFLICTS IN THE MARKET • Exploring the complexities of servicing the South

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FRAYING TIES • Louisiana’s Shrimp and Petroleum Festival at Eighty-Nine

Atomic No.1 • The promise and the pitfalls of the Gulf Coast’s bet on hydrogen

THE DELTA-8 BLUES • Hemp-derived cannabinoids got the South high—and now that is going to change

Comely in Going • The tangled past and unsettled future of greyhound racing in West Virginia, home of the country’s last two active tracks

TOO MUCH AND NOT ENOUGH • Organizing Dollar General workers in Louisiana

The Costs of Eternity • In western Germany, a post-coal prophecy for Appalachia

GETTING OUT OF THE CHICKEN BUSINESS • An escape route for contract farmers

New Souths in Rock Hill, SC • How the Bleachery upheld a region’s dream of remaking itself

FIELD OF DREAMS • For these Georgia tree farmers, innovation is a family tradition