Oxford American # 114, Fall 2021

Editor’s Letter: A Belief in Birds, by Danielle A. Jackson

POINTS SOUTH

Finding a Home Behind the Counter, by Frederick McKindra

The Faithful, a story by Allison Light

Dollhouse of Horrors, by Mary Kay McBrayer

Apple Flesh, a story by Andrew Malan Milward

Rum and Pearls, a story by Herbert Girtley Jr.

The Dock, a story by Steve Cushman

FEATURES

Outage,
A story by Mary Miller

The High Shelf,
A story by Dawnie Walton

The Guidebook to the Evaluation of Revelatory Phenomena,
A story by Jeremy Griffin

Dr. Sandman,
A story by Deesha Philyaw

POEMS

Blues Poems by Henry Dumas

Employment Blues
Concentration Camp Blues
Keep the Faith Blues
The Buster
Outer Space Blues

OMNIVORE

Something Deeply Rooted
Breece D’J Pancake’s Milton, West Virginia
by Emily Hilliard

Cutting Across Lines
Teaching Holocaust Literature in Arkansas
by Dorian Stuber

The Second Sight of Henry Dumas
Envisioning Black (Im)possibility in the U.S. South
by Carter Mathes

한년 (WOAMN, WHITE)
On Korean Drama and the New Southern Gothic
by S.J. Kim



Art by: Allison Janae Hamilton, Doron Langberg, Catherine Panebianco, Mary Kay McBrayer, Charlie Engman, Isip Xin, Madeleine Bialke, Artur Wiernicki, Lorna Simpson, Carter/Reddy, Jerrell Gibbs, David Huffman, Blanche Lazzell, Carl Hammoud, Lonnie Holley, GaHee Park