“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

“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

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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/...

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.

“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

#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

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

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“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

“Something on my phone was listening to me.” In a new short story by Lee Conell, a woman considers her childhood encounter with Simone, a deceased celebrity elk, as she navigates abortion bans and data tracking. 🔗: https://shorturl.at/j7CzI

The Oxford American’s Roundtable discussion on the state of humanities training at HBCUs is now available to watch on our website and YouTube Channel. 🔗: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDum...

Excited to find the latest issue of @oxfordamerican.bsky.social in my mailbox today, complete with an article by @theferocity.bsky.social!

“Who knows where the particles will land, nomads on their own journey to a next home.” In the introduction to the Home Issue, Managing Editor Christian Leus reflects on how often death entered the conversation when talking to this issue’s contributors about home. 🔗: https://shorturl.at/OEGAt

#EyesontheSouth | In Two Places at Once | June Canedo de Souza In this feature from the archive, de Souza documents the impact on having dual citizenship in Brazil and the United States on a family. 🔗: https://shorturl.at/1qgEh

“This type of harassment of beachgoers happens up and down the coast daily.” — @hopecorrigan.bsky.social chronicles the battle for beach access along Florida’s 30A, noting the key players in keeping the beach private and the members of the public fighting back. 🔗: https://shorturl.at/6fThn

Welcome Home. The Oxford American’s special Summer/Fall double issue hits newsstands today! Find the Home Issue at your favorite local bookstore or here: www.oxfordamericangoods.org/collections/...

Pre-Order | Issue 133/134: The Home Issue

This special double issue of the Oxford American explores Home: a place and an idea that’s deeply personal, always political, and as gloriously complicated as the South itself. Saeed Jones writes from...

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There was a time, for many of us, when home was where the telephone was. And therefore, where the voice was." Sasha Bonét considers the corded telephone as an epicenter of her Houston, Texas, community after the loss of her grandmothers. 🔗: https://oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/landline

Looking for your next favorite lit mag? Sit down with @oxfordamerican.bsky.social, winner of the #FirecrackerAward in Magazines/General Excellence! #SummerReading oxfordamerican.org

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We are thrilled to announce the Oxford American Roundtable discussion on the state of Humanities training at HBCUs—available to view on the OA’s YouTube channel on Wednesday, August 19.

#EyesontheSouth | What the Colonel Left Behind | Shayla Freeman In a new feature, Freeman details the auction of more than $300,000 worth of @kfc’s Colonel Sanders’s property in Shelbyville, Kentucky, that drew in bidders from around the world. 🔗: https://shorturl.at/KZzYs

“The earth was libidinous; every woman and man was a maybe-portal for me to jump in and swallow.” Halle Hill considers the threshold of her home in North Carolina as she documents her relationships to the people who enter and exit her life. 🔗: https://shorturl.at/yz1J5

“I think the hospital was the closest thing to home my father had felt in a long time.” Em Palughi tackles Alabama’s healthcare system, hospital bias, and patient dumping in the last few months of her father’s battle with hepatitis C. 🔗: https://shorturl.at/MT6vF

August is here, & with it my 287th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

#ScholarSunday Thread 287 (8/2/26) – Black and White and Read All Over

August is here, & with it my 287th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share as widely ...

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Oxford American Assistant Editor Clarissa Brooks speaks with director and screenwriter Yoruba Richen about the process of making her latest documentary, “Free Joan Little.” Watch the full conversation here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1lF...

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“I lie under the window at night watching the live oaks sway. . .as our tiny newborn curls on my chest like a moonstone amulet.” From the Home Makers series, Gabriel Daniel Solís looks back at the views from the corner window of his old Austin home. 🔗: https://shorturl.at/ryoRX

“Maybe to distract myself from the question of loneliness, I’m working to chart the depths of my ride with Mister Anthony.” @theferocity.bsky.social considers a conversation he had with his Lyft driver, Mister Anthony, where they discuss a shared pull to New Orleans. 🔗: https://shorturl.at/f2rJl

#EyesontheSouth | Strange Parallels | José Castrellón In his series “Palindrome,” Panamanian artist José Castrellón explores the connection between Panama City, Florida, and his birth country, 3,400 miles south along the Caribbean Sea. 🔗: https://shorturl.at/QtvAi

“How do I stay present when I’m so worried about what comes next?” @poetmarcuswicker.bsky.social moves through sleepless nights, 4 a.m. dance parties, and new fatherhood, finding grace in music, family, and his infant son’s laughter. 🔗: oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/noctu...

I spoke to the @oxfordamerican.bsky.social about my personal Southern displacement for their “Home” issue, as well as using sports to tell stories folks don’t want to hear. oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/throu...

Through the Prism of Sports

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