Oxford American # 102, Fall 2018

Editor’s Letter: Past Imperfect, by Eliza Borné

Points South
Will Bostwick digs a gospel music archive

Stay Away from Places with Directions in Their Names, a story by David Wesley Williams

Kelsey Norris on a Nashville descendants project

Tokyo to Davao City, by Helene Achanzar

Nell Boeschenstein reports from a disappearing lake

Culture Shock, by Scott Korb

Megan Mayhew Bergman and the ravens of Paris

Local Fare: Folk Witness, by John T. Edge

Poetry
Seek & Destroy, by Alex Lemon

Returning to a Moment, by Curtis Bauer

Bikers, by Kate Daniels

Elements of Accounting, by Sandy Longhorn

Features
LIVING IN THE PRESENT WITH JOHN PRINE
Old car, new shoes
by Tom Piazza

MANY SINGLETONS
War, ownership, and family ties in Tennessee
by Danielle Chapman

THE MOUNTAINS AREN’T EMPTY
Robert Gipe at capacity’s ragged edge
by Beth Macy

THE LIGHT OF SALVATION
Father Damian Hart and the pull of the Orthodox Church
by Nick Tabor

POSTHUMOUS PORTRAIT
a story by Lee Conell

Omnivore
LIGHT THE WORLD
Anne Spencer’s ecosystem of art and activism
by Tess Taylor

SAFE HOUSES
Sarah Winchester and the legacy of living with guns
by Sara A. Lewis

Cooking with Chris:
LARD HAVE MERCY
by Chris Offutt

Art by Kerry James Marshall, L. Kasimu Harris, Vaughn Sills, Suzy Schultz, David Rathman, Wardell Milan, Emily Shur, Lars Elling, Walker Pickering, Catherine McCarthy, Gina Beavers, David McClister, Titus Kaphar, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Chris Jones, Ben Schonzeit, Deborah Bay, Yana Dimitrova



Cover: Untitled (2009) © Kerry James Marshall. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York