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We’re excited to present the Summer/Fall 2026 double issue dedicated to Home! Pre-order your copy for a late July delivery here: www.oxfordamericangoods.org/products/iss...
“That was life for you: you try to make something work and the minute you need it, it falls apart.”
In this story by Destiny O. Birdsong, a woman raising her boyfriend’s young son forms the family they both need.
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In this story by Destiny O. Birdsong, a woman raising her boyfriend’s young son forms the family they both need.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/RBdc3
October 7, 2026 at 8:30 PM
“That was life for you: you try to make something work and the minute you need it, it falls apart.”
In this story by Destiny O. Birdsong, a woman raising her boyfriend’s young son forms the family they both need.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/RBdc3
In this story by Destiny O. Birdsong, a woman raising her boyfriend’s young son forms the family they both need.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/RBdc3
“I received an email from a colleague one day who asked me to take down the sign outside my office door reading STOP CENSORSHIP.”
In this essay, Lucy Schiller balances fear, courage, and surveillance as a professor in a conservative Texas town.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/kJih7
In this essay, Lucy Schiller balances fear, courage, and surveillance as a professor in a conservative Texas town.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/kJih7
October 2, 2026 at 10:00 PM
“I received an email from a colleague one day who asked me to take down the sign outside my office door reading STOP CENSORSHIP.”
In this essay, Lucy Schiller balances fear, courage, and surveillance as a professor in a conservative Texas town.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/kJih7
In this essay, Lucy Schiller balances fear, courage, and surveillance as a professor in a conservative Texas town.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/kJih7
“And yet the work persists—vivid, insistent, thrilling.”
Jeremy Lybarger traces the life and rediscovery of queer Southern painter Robert Gordy, whose whimsical style earned acclaim and then obscurity.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/nRyV9
Jeremy Lybarger traces the life and rediscovery of queer Southern painter Robert Gordy, whose whimsical style earned acclaim and then obscurity.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/nRyV9
October 1, 2026 at 11:01 PM
“And yet the work persists—vivid, insistent, thrilling.”
Jeremy Lybarger traces the life and rediscovery of queer Southern painter Robert Gordy, whose whimsical style earned acclaim and then obscurity.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/nRyV9
Jeremy Lybarger traces the life and rediscovery of queer Southern painter Robert Gordy, whose whimsical style earned acclaim and then obscurity.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/nRyV9
"She’s our lost daughter, going into the wilderness. Where did she go?”
Andrea Cooper documents the turbulent journey of the 1859 "Virginia Dare" sculpture and how Dare herself was embraced as a symbol across movements.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/BWX2a
Andrea Cooper documents the turbulent journey of the 1859 "Virginia Dare" sculpture and how Dare herself was embraced as a symbol across movements.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/BWX2a
September 30, 2026 at 11:46 PM
"She’s our lost daughter, going into the wilderness. Where did she go?”
Andrea Cooper documents the turbulent journey of the 1859 "Virginia Dare" sculpture and how Dare herself was embraced as a symbol across movements.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/BWX2a
Andrea Cooper documents the turbulent journey of the 1859 "Virginia Dare" sculpture and how Dare herself was embraced as a symbol across movements.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/BWX2a
“and their voices gather / like charms in a church / where the heavy antagonisms of ugly have no seat”
In her new poem, Camonghne Felix relishes in the comfort of Black hair salons that can serve as sanctuaries against prejudice.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/sOwLS
In her new poem, Camonghne Felix relishes in the comfort of Black hair salons that can serve as sanctuaries against prejudice.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/sOwLS
September 29, 2026 at 9:00 PM
“and their voices gather / like charms in a church / where the heavy antagonisms of ugly have no seat”
In her new poem, Camonghne Felix relishes in the comfort of Black hair salons that can serve as sanctuaries against prejudice.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/sOwLS
In her new poem, Camonghne Felix relishes in the comfort of Black hair salons that can serve as sanctuaries against prejudice.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/sOwLS
Happy #LitMagWeek! In celebration, we’re offering a new, limited-edition t-shirt that includes a free matching tote! We’re also offering 15% off almost everything on OxfordAmericanGoods.org with the code LITMAGWEEK, now through Oct. 2. Shop now: shorturl.at/WG59U
September 28, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Happy #LitMagWeek! In celebration, we’re offering a new, limited-edition t-shirt that includes a free matching tote! We’re also offering 15% off almost everything on OxfordAmericanGoods.org with the code LITMAGWEEK, now through Oct. 2. Shop now: shorturl.at/WG59U
As the Oxford American grows, we are establishing two leadership positions: an Executive Director to lead the organization and an Editor to lead the magazine.
We are hiring for both.
Learn more and apply: oxfordamerican.org/jobs
We are hiring for both.
Learn more and apply: oxfordamerican.org/jobs
September 24, 2026 at 3:07 PM
As the Oxford American grows, we are establishing two leadership positions: an Executive Director to lead the organization and an Editor to lead the magazine.
We are hiring for both.
Learn more and apply: oxfordamerican.org/jobs
We are hiring for both.
Learn more and apply: oxfordamerican.org/jobs
Kiki Petrosino shares an excerpt from her latest collection “Perfect Italian” which weaves personal memories with ancestral echoes, reflecting on themes of family, grief, and the search for connection across generations and geographies.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/DyMFn
🔗: https://shorturl.at/DyMFn
September 23, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Kiki Petrosino shares an excerpt from her latest collection “Perfect Italian” which weaves personal memories with ancestral echoes, reflecting on themes of family, grief, and the search for connection across generations and geographies.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/DyMFn
🔗: https://shorturl.at/DyMFn
In "Something Like Home," gender theorist Kelsey L. Smoot considers the context of home through the lens of mess, and how access to enclosure changes what excess is allowed.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/nMllB
🔗: https://shorturl.at/nMllB
September 22, 2026 at 11:30 PM
In "Something Like Home," gender theorist Kelsey L. Smoot considers the context of home through the lens of mess, and how access to enclosure changes what excess is allowed.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/nMllB
🔗: https://shorturl.at/nMllB
Georgia poet Mason Wray considers how people live on in the objects they leave behind. As he clears out his grandmother’s house, Wray reflects on the meaning of ownership, our attachments to material things, and the possibility of being forgotten.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/CSnuu
🔗: https://shorturl.at/CSnuu
September 21, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Georgia poet Mason Wray considers how people live on in the objects they leave behind. As he clears out his grandmother’s house, Wray reflects on the meaning of ownership, our attachments to material things, and the possibility of being forgotten.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/CSnuu
🔗: https://shorturl.at/CSnuu
In this new poem by Courtney Conrad that appears in our Summer/Fall 2026 Home Issue, a Jamaican grandmother watches as her young granddaughter packs keepsakes to take with her on her move to the United Kingdom.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/arrhL
🔗: https://shorturl.at/arrhL
September 18, 2026 at 10:00 PM
In this new poem by Courtney Conrad that appears in our Summer/Fall 2026 Home Issue, a Jamaican grandmother watches as her young granddaughter packs keepsakes to take with her on her move to the United Kingdom.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/arrhL
🔗: https://shorturl.at/arrhL
"So my father's suicide became a chasm."
From the archive, Jeremy Redmon dissects his trauma surrounding his veteran father’s suicide and reflects on his time as a journalist during the Iraq war.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/A5Mcr
From the archive, Jeremy Redmon dissects his trauma surrounding his veteran father’s suicide and reflects on his time as a journalist during the Iraq war.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/A5Mcr
September 16, 2026 at 11:00 PM
"So my father's suicide became a chasm."
From the archive, Jeremy Redmon dissects his trauma surrounding his veteran father’s suicide and reflects on his time as a journalist during the Iraq war.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/A5Mcr
From the archive, Jeremy Redmon dissects his trauma surrounding his veteran father’s suicide and reflects on his time as a journalist during the Iraq war.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/A5Mcr
In this new poem by Katie Condon, a college professor watches pro-life protests unfold on campus and is drawn into questions about God and the voices behind the movement.
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🔗: http://tiny.cc/vfha101
September 15, 2026 at 11:00 PM
In this new poem by Katie Condon, a college professor watches pro-life protests unfold on campus and is drawn into questions about God and the voices behind the movement.
🔗: http://tiny.cc/vfha101
🔗: http://tiny.cc/vfha101
“There is something magnetic about decay.”
Mississippi writer Marci Wilding explores a dilapidated office building and navigates her feelings about the finality of death, the evanescence of life, and what relics are worth saving.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/RcQ2F
Mississippi writer Marci Wilding explores a dilapidated office building and navigates her feelings about the finality of death, the evanescence of life, and what relics are worth saving.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/RcQ2F
September 10, 2026 at 10:01 PM
“There is something magnetic about decay.”
Mississippi writer Marci Wilding explores a dilapidated office building and navigates her feelings about the finality of death, the evanescence of life, and what relics are worth saving.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/RcQ2F
Mississippi writer Marci Wilding explores a dilapidated office building and navigates her feelings about the finality of death, the evanescence of life, and what relics are worth saving.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/RcQ2F
“She was convinced Eddie was magnetic and her cells were tiny pieces of metal.”
—In a new short story by Katherine Webb, a young girl in rural Appalachia is in love with her soon-to-be uncle and grapples with her feelings on his wedding day.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/rR59c
—In a new short story by Katherine Webb, a young girl in rural Appalachia is in love with her soon-to-be uncle and grapples with her feelings on his wedding day.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/rR59c
September 9, 2026 at 10:00 PM
“She was convinced Eddie was magnetic and her cells were tiny pieces of metal.”
—In a new short story by Katherine Webb, a young girl in rural Appalachia is in love with her soon-to-be uncle and grapples with her feelings on his wedding day.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/rR59c
—In a new short story by Katherine Webb, a young girl in rural Appalachia is in love with her soon-to-be uncle and grapples with her feelings on his wedding day.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/rR59c
“Nobody gave a rat’s ass about suicide when we got home from Iraq. ”
In a new work of flash fiction by Eric McMillan, a soldier contends with an epidemic of military suicides.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/GfWoR
In a new work of flash fiction by Eric McMillan, a soldier contends with an epidemic of military suicides.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/GfWoR
September 5, 2026 at 4:00 PM
“Nobody gave a rat’s ass about suicide when we got home from Iraq. ”
In a new work of flash fiction by Eric McMillan, a soldier contends with an epidemic of military suicides.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/GfWoR
In a new work of flash fiction by Eric McMillan, a soldier contends with an epidemic of military suicides.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/GfWoR
“This isn’t home—that I know. But someday, I’ll find it again.”
The final essay in the Home Makers series, Jaquira Diaz explores the liminal space between house and home.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/AqqPP
The final essay in the Home Makers series, Jaquira Diaz explores the liminal space between house and home.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/AqqPP
September 2, 2026 at 11:00 PM
“This isn’t home—that I know. But someday, I’ll find it again.”
The final essay in the Home Makers series, Jaquira Diaz explores the liminal space between house and home.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/AqqPP
The final essay in the Home Makers series, Jaquira Diaz explores the liminal space between house and home.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/AqqPP
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Dolly merch, a donation to her charity, and supporting Southern storytelling all in one purchase! You can't beat that!
We mourn the loss of the beloved Queen of Country. In her memory, we will donate $5 per T-shirt and $1 per Country Roots Music Issue to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. Shop the full collection: www.oxfordamericangoods.org/collections/...
August 27, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Dolly merch, a donation to her charity, and supporting Southern storytelling all in one purchase! You can't beat that!
Poet, essayist, and novelist Wendell Berry died yesterday at 92 at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky.
In his memory, we're sharing "Sabbaths," originally published in our Spring 2018 Issue, a poem that, like so much of his work, asked us to slow down and pay attention.
In his memory, we're sharing "Sabbaths," originally published in our Spring 2018 Issue, a poem that, like so much of his work, asked us to slow down and pay attention.
September 1, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Poet, essayist, and novelist Wendell Berry died yesterday at 92 at his home in Port Royal, Kentucky.
In his memory, we're sharing "Sabbaths," originally published in our Spring 2018 Issue, a poem that, like so much of his work, asked us to slow down and pay attention.
In his memory, we're sharing "Sabbaths," originally published in our Spring 2018 Issue, a poem that, like so much of his work, asked us to slow down and pay attention.
“My house is haunted.”
From the Summer/Fall 2026 Home issue, @dkroberts.bsky.social reflects on loss and memory in her family's Florida house, which she refuses to ever leave.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/afKNn
From the Summer/Fall 2026 Home issue, @dkroberts.bsky.social reflects on loss and memory in her family's Florida house, which she refuses to ever leave.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/afKNn
August 31, 2026 at 10:00 PM
“My house is haunted.”
From the Summer/Fall 2026 Home issue, @dkroberts.bsky.social reflects on loss and memory in her family's Florida house, which she refuses to ever leave.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/afKNn
From the Summer/Fall 2026 Home issue, @dkroberts.bsky.social reflects on loss and memory in her family's Florida house, which she refuses to ever leave.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/afKNn
#EyesontheSouth | Ghost Bird | Dason Pettit
In this feature from the archive, Pettit documents the “persistent existential crisis” embodied by the probable extinction of the ivory-billed woodpecker.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/oNuZo
In this feature from the archive, Pettit documents the “persistent existential crisis” embodied by the probable extinction of the ivory-billed woodpecker.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/oNuZo
August 27, 2026 at 10:00 PM
#EyesontheSouth | Ghost Bird | Dason Pettit
In this feature from the archive, Pettit documents the “persistent existential crisis” embodied by the probable extinction of the ivory-billed woodpecker.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/oNuZo
In this feature from the archive, Pettit documents the “persistent existential crisis” embodied by the probable extinction of the ivory-billed woodpecker.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/oNuZo
We mourn the loss of the beloved Queen of Country. In her memory, we will donate $5 per T-shirt and $1 per Country Roots Music Issue to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. Shop the full collection: www.oxfordamericangoods.org/collections/...
August 27, 2026 at 12:19 AM
We mourn the loss of the beloved Queen of Country. In her memory, we will donate $5 per T-shirt and $1 per Country Roots Music Issue to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. Shop the full collection: www.oxfordamericangoods.org/collections/...
“It’s outside our home, though, where I feel him most readily.”
From the Home Makers series, OA Associate Editor @fmckindra.bsky.social moves through the Arkansas spaces his father loved in life, processing his grief along the way.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/IAjGE
From the Home Makers series, OA Associate Editor @fmckindra.bsky.social moves through the Arkansas spaces his father loved in life, processing his grief along the way.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/IAjGE
August 26, 2026 at 10:00 PM
“It’s outside our home, though, where I feel him most readily.”
From the Home Makers series, OA Associate Editor @fmckindra.bsky.social moves through the Arkansas spaces his father loved in life, processing his grief along the way.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/IAjGE
From the Home Makers series, OA Associate Editor @fmckindra.bsky.social moves through the Arkansas spaces his father loved in life, processing his grief along the way.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/IAjGE
We will always love you, Dolly.
August 25, 2026 at 6:44 PM
We will always love you, Dolly.
“The body must’ve been prepared at home, by his people.”
—West Virginia writer Matthew Neill Null shares an excerpt of his latest novel “Floodgate” out today from @BlairPublisher.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/heyrP
—West Virginia writer Matthew Neill Null shares an excerpt of his latest novel “Floodgate” out today from @BlairPublisher.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/heyrP
August 25, 2026 at 5:01 PM
“The body must’ve been prepared at home, by his people.”
—West Virginia writer Matthew Neill Null shares an excerpt of his latest novel “Floodgate” out today from @BlairPublisher.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/heyrP
—West Virginia writer Matthew Neill Null shares an excerpt of his latest novel “Floodgate” out today from @BlairPublisher.
🔗: https://shorturl.at/heyrP