Oxford American Fall 2024

POINTS SOUTH

Writing about Paintings
A poem by Derrick Austin

Cracker
A story by Rebekah Morgan

A Walk with Ancestors
Inside a pre-integration, Black Belt, Black-owned bookstore
By Adria R. Walker

The Frogs
A story by Kaylie Saidin

new novel
A ghost story by Justin Phillip Reed



FEATURES

THE FLIRT
A story by Rebecca Bernard

A RECIPE PASSED DOWN
Debut Fiction by Kevin Wranovix

POEMS
By Aimee Nezhukumatathil

FREEZER SONGS
Debut Fiction by Josie Tolin



OMNIVORE

Ellen Gilchrist’s Real Man
A visit with the iconoclastic author
By James McWilliams

Cool Nights and Intimate Cowboys
A conversation with Texas artist RF. Alvarez
By Alyssa Ortega Coppelman



ART BY: Thomas Deaton, Louis Carlos Bernal, Awol Erizku, Keisha Scarville, Jerrell Gibbs, Jamie Earnest, Timothy Ivy, Charles C. Mosely, Jr, Shelley Justiss, Coady Brown, Nicholas Galanin, Erica Vincenzi, Jo Ann Chaus, Terra Keck, Tim Sandow, Jess Allen, Ginny Crouch Stanford, RF. Alvarez

COVER: Scene from Alligator (1980) (detail), 2019, acrylic and mixed media on canvas by Thomas Deaton © The artist. Courtesy Lemieux Galleries, New Orleans. Deaton’s work will be on view from November 2 to February 2, in the exhibition Prospect.6: The Future is Present, The Harbinger is Home, in New Orleans.