CELEBRATING 25 YEARS

PROUDLY PUBLISHED FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS

OXFORD***AMERICAN***

A MAGAZINE OF THE SOUTH • FALL 2017

MISSISSIPPI’S SOCIALIST EXPERIMENT: KATIE GILBERT on a RADICAL VISION FOR JACKSON

GARY STEWART, HONKY TONK MAN

by DAVID RAMSEY fiction by JESMYN WARD AND KEVIN A. GONZALEZ

KAVEH AKBAR, DANIELLE CHAPMAN, CHRIS OFFUTT, AMINA GAUTIER, DIANE ROBERTS, CO RM AC McCARTHY, YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, ROSE McLARNEY

AND FREDERICK McKINDRA ON BLACK SELFHOOD IN LITTLE ROCK