Issue 125 of the Oxford American
Volume 125 of the Oxford American hit newsstands today. Billed as the Outside Issue, the latest edition of the Conway-based magazine is filled with essays that “speak to the rituals used to witness and maintain an open channel between humanity and all beings in the natural world,” per Danielle A. Jackson’s editor’s letter. “The stories are best enjoyed outside.”
Jackson’s introduction highlights four pieces from the issue:
Christina Leo examines the traditions of Grand Isle, the sole remaining inhabited barrier island off the coast of Louisiana and home to the Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo, now a catch-and-release festival of fishing to preserve life in its waters. Michael Adno visits a north Florida family steeped in the centuries-old ritual of summoning earthworms from the ground; Anna Venarchik describes a pilgrimage to the home of an Alabama-born visual artist who likely spent hours with James Baldwin at the writer’s country estate in St. Paul de Vence. Tauheed Rahim II recounts a lost eighty acres, and a found eighty-four-hundred-square-foot plot on Exchange Avenue in Memphis, that, for him and his children, became a “portal that provided protection, shelter, a shell.”
To purchase the Outside Issue, head here.
