The Summer 2022 issue continues our year-long celebration of the Oxford American’s thirtieth anniversary, featuring a specially commissioned cover by Michael Berryhill.

In this simmering edition, writers meditate on ancestry, identity, traditional songs, and textiles, as well as the journeys and migrations that led them from one home to another. A special section on masculinity features six writers on fatherhood, war, love, and barbershops. Jenn Shapland re-introduces a story from our archive on Carson McCullers alongside more than a dozen new essays, poems, and investigative pieces by your favorite Southern writers.

Pre-orders of the Summer Issue shipped May 17, 2022, and the issue is available on newsstands as of June 7, 2022.