Oxford American # 98, Fall 2017

Editor’s Letter: Right in Time, by Eliza Borné

POINTS SOUTH
What Happens Next, by Paul Crenshaw

Soul Meeting, by Jonathan Bernstein

Another Country, by Osayi Endolyn

Needful Expression, by Michael Collins

The Kitler, a story by Amina Gautier

The Hunter, by Gabriel Daniel Solis

Removal, by Jeanie Riess

Lunchtime at Rancho Grande, by Diane Roberts

POETRY
American Persimmon, by Rose McLarney

Astrology, by Kaveh Akbar

The Return, by Bob Hicok

Luck, by Jenny Browne

Ghost Story, by Jacob Shores-Argüello

FEATURES
Honky-Tonk Man
We both loved Gary Stewart, and we both loved Grace
by David Ramsey

Jagged
A story by Jesmyn Ward

The Socialist Experiment
A new-society vision in Jackson, Mississippi
by Katie Gilbert

The Country Way
Sketches of Tennessee
by Danielle Chapman

Los Vampiri
A story by Kevin A. González

OMNIVORE
Becoming Integrated
Trying to achieve black selfhood in Little Rock
by Frederick McKindra

Old Woods and Deep
Traces of Cormac McCarthy’s Knoxville
by Noah Gallagher Shannon

Cooking with Chris:
The Country Sausage That's Going To Town
by Chris Offutt



Art by: Leo Touchet, Kohshin Finley, Derrick Adams, Aaron R. Turner, Shoshanna Weinberger, Lindsay Metivier, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Farrah Karapetian, Alexander Missen, Mauro C. Martinez, Mark Flood, Diego Camposeco, Heather Oelklaus, Rett Peek, Trip Burns, Marlo Pascual, Daniel Pagán, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Huger Foote, Kevin Horan

Cover: New Orleans jazz funeral, 1969. © 2017 Leo Touchet, leotouchet.com