Oxford American # 41, Fall 2001

COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS

Editor's Box:
American Question
In times like these, what is the proper role for a magazine like The OA?
by Marc Smirnoff

Dear OA

Off the Shelf
by Fred Hobson, Randall Curb, Tessa DeCarlo, and Annie Wedekind


Dealer’s Choice:
A Man of the World
James Still (1906–2001)
by Hal Crowther

Local Fare:
Eat More Possum?
by John T. Edge

Southern Gallery:
Barry Hannah
One of the South’s most celebrated fiction writers discusses his technique and beliefs.

Wildlife:
Where Tiny Deer Reign
by Bill Belleville

Family Life:
The Place of Shakespeare in a House of Pain
by Eric Ormsby

Art Views:
Spanish Grandeur in Mississippi
by Donna Tartt

Southern Music:
The Other Music Cities
by Alex Halberstadt

Gone Off Up North:
Much Ado About Nothin'
by Roy Blount Jr.

Forum:
Remembering Eudora Welty (1909-2001)
John Updike, Bobbie Ann Mason, X.J. Kennedy, and others pay tribute

Southern Scenes:
Eudora Welty
Photograph by William Eggleston

FEATURES

On the Road in Third-World Alabama
The AIDS epidemic has hit the rural South, and one man tries to help.
by Jacob Levenson

Strange Fruit: The Dream of Elmer Martin
A Baltimore wax museum documents—explicitly—the events that shaped African-American history.
by Paul Reyes

Samuel Mockbee's Vision in an Invisible World
A “genius” award-winning architect builds postmodern homes for the poor.
by Raad Cawthon

Fetch
A young man wants the affection of his roommate.
A story by John McManus

POETRY

Vigilance
by David Bottoms

Documentary
by James Applewhite



Cover: "Leland Juke" by Birney Imes (Leland, Mississippi, 1983)