Hosanna Japa Town

If somebody falls off, I will not stop. If somebody cries I’m thirsty, I will not stop. If bandits fire machine guns, I will not stop.

By Iheoma Nwachukwu

Issue 124, Spring 2024

The Work

“Can I please have an eraser?”

By Wesley Allsbrook

Issue 124, Spring 2024

Ground Control

The series is informed by the unique sociopolitical climate of the border and the imaging technologies used to uphold it.

By Noelle Mason

Issue 124, Spring 2024

Don’t Bleed on the Artwork: Notes from the Afterlife

At the frame shop there is so much beauty, it can’t be real. Maybe this is the afterlife, I think. Or purgatory.

By Wendy Brenner

Big, Dirty, Beautiful, Defensive, and Obsessed

Jodi Hays is resourceful. Her paintings, dyed and bleached cardboard assemblages, harken back to makeshift repairs, temporary solutions.

By Robert Alan Grand

Black Country: A Love Letter and Living Archive

If Black country is having a moment because of Beyoncé, we are here like always to guide and probe and make the necessary connections.

By Oxford American

“Reckoning comes before reconciliation and often begins at the table.”

—Alice Randall

Podcast

Points South

Daisy Bates in Mitchellville

Join producer Christian Leus for part two of our story about Mitchellville, Arkansas, as she explores the history and legacy of the Mitchellville Self-Help Project, led by Daisy Bates.

Points South

Foundations of a Black Town

Producer Christian Leus travels to Mitchellville, Arkansas, a small Black town close to the Mississippi state line. Mitchellville’s story is little...

Points South

Points South Live: Otis Redding Foundation and Macon Music Revue

Our 25th annual Southern Music Issue is on newsstands now! Join us for a special celebration of one of the South’s greatest balladeers: Otis Redding....

Eyes on the South

A Way to Get Gone

By Darryl DeAngelo Terrell

A Way Home

By Jay Simple

I-10 Runs Through It

By Johanna Warwick

A Dream Abandoned

By Brett Schenning

Devil's Half Acre

By Ajay Malghan

“God bless America and God bless the Oxford American…”

—Dolly Parton

Goods

Spring 2024 Issue #124

Pre-orders of the Southern Art Issue will ship in late February, and the issue will become available on select newsstands March 19, 2024.

Ballads Bundle

Includes the Issue + Limited-Edition Tee

G.O.A.T. Sweatshirt

You can't spell G.O.A.T. without OA