Oxford American # 116, Spring 2022

Editor's Letter: We Are Ever New by Danielle A. Jackson

POINTS SOUTH

Miss Betty, by Diane Roberts

Search History, by Allison Braden

Busing Battle, by Kelundra Smith

Making Paradise, by Austyn Gaffney

Erosion, by Jeanie Riess

Questing for the Past, by Katherine Churchill

When the Barrios Hear Her Song, by Verónica Dávila Ellis

FEATURES

Pigskin
A story by Kristen Arnett

Music City
A poetic sequence
by Didi Jackson and Major Jackson

People Change All The Time
A story by Charles Ramsay McCrory

Louisiana Girls
What's a happy ending for Britney Spears?
by Lauren Stroh

OMNIVORE

Coda for Winifred Rembert
Two recent exhibitions feature scenes depicted in the artist's memoir, Chasing Me to My Grave
by Rebecca Bengal

For Daughters of Southern Sundays
An African name in an American place
by Imani Perry

A Return to the Black Mountains with Moses Sumney
From the web
by Clarissa Brooks



Art by: Xaviera Simmons, Rose Marie Cromwell, Olivier Souffrant, Darrel Ellis, Carter/Reddy, Meg Griffiths, Brian Dettmer, Allison Braden, Dominic Chambers, Molly Z. G., Nicolas Grenier, David Shrobe, Juan Arango Palacios, Michelle Garcia, Kristine Potter, William Greiner, Anna Jensen, Winfred Rembert, Nadiya I. Nacorda, Spencer Kelly

Cover: Sundown (Number Fourteen), 2018, by Xaviera Simmons. Courtesy the artist and David Castillo, Miami