Oxford American # 108, Spring 2020

Editor’s Letter: The Messy Middle, by Eliza Borné

POINTS SOUTH

Career Girl Meets Rock Star, by Malinda Maynor Lowery

The Wild, six love poems by Seth Pennington and Bryan Borland

Nothing Stays the Same, by Jeanie Riess

The Virgin, a story by Ashleigh Bryant Phillips

What Is Lost, by Wei Tchou

The Ghosts of Georgetown County, by John Thomason

FEATURES

An Intersection at the End of America
A portrait of Dilley, Texas, home of the largest immigration detention center in the United States
by Emily Gogolak

Cane Creek
A story by Ben Fountain

Persons Unknown
A community’s search for a mass grave in Thibodaux, Louisiana
by Rosemary Westwood

On Sacred Ground
Afro-Cuban religions find a home in Florida
by Jordan Blumetti

Sense of Strength
A New Orleans principal’s innovative plan to prepare black students for college
by Casey Parks

OMNIVORE

You Never Can Tell About a River
My search for Frank Yerby and our Augusta, Georgia
by KaToya Ellis Fleming

Buh Black Snake in New England
A prep school teacher, Walker Percy, and the power of Gullah folktales
by Benjamin Anastas

Local Fare:
Getting the Look
by John T. Edge



Art by: Emerald Arguelles, Dale Niles, Joe Rudko, E.A. Bethea, Maria Sturm, Matthew Finley, J.T. Blatty, Tim Davis, Bess Adler, Justin Cook, Gabriella Demczuk, Tatiana Trouvé, Nina Robinson, Alberto del Pozo, Casey Parks, Romare Bearden, Nathan Gelgud, and Walker Evans

Cover: “For Nakeya” (2019), by Emerald Arguelles