Acclaimed author David Joy will appear in conversation with local author Ace Atkins at 5 p.m. Thursday at Off Square Books to promote his latest novel, “The Line That Held Us.” Joy said he looks forward to his visit to Oxford because he already has relationships with both Off Square Books and Atkins. He first […]
Nature has inspired some of the world’s most beloved artists of all stylistic backgrounds, from Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” to Winslow’s “Sunlight on the Coast.” Some of the best-known paintings – even if they are not always known by name – attempt to capture the beauty and power of nature. Carol Roark, a painter based […]
Lauren Groff took the literary world by storm with her 2015 novel “Fates and Furies.” The novel was shortlisted for the National Book Award, and Barack Obama named it his favorite book of 2015. Groff is back again this summer with the release of her latest work – a similarly potent collection of short stories […]
Art vendors from all over come to Double Decker Arts Festival every year, but many artists who set up booths for the two-day event are Oxonians or University of Mississippi students. In fact, the Mud Daubers – a group of graduate and advanced undergraduate student ceramicists at the university – have participated in the festival […]
“Striking Voices,” a photo and video documentary project about the Memphis sanitation workers’ strike in the winter and spring of 1968, is being exhibited in the University of Mississippi Center for the Study of Southern Culture’s Gammill Gallery in Barnard Observatory. The exhibit, which began late last month, will end with a public talk by […]
The epigraph of Oxford-based author Michael Farris Smith’s most recent novel, “The Fighter,” reads a quote by John Steinbeck: “To be alive at all is to have scars.” Few quotes could more accurately describe the experience of the protagonist, ex-fighter Jack Boucher, who bears literal and figurative scars from his years spent fighting for money […]
The Grammy Award-winning choral ensemble Conspirare, which is Latin for “to breathe together,” performed its two-hourlong, three-part oratorio “Considering Matthew Shepard” on Tuesday night at the Gertrude Castellow Ford Center for the Performing Arts. The performance in Oxford was the third stop on the company’s four-performance tour. The Grammy-nominated oratorio, composed by Craig Hella Johnson, […]
The University of Mississippi Music Department will continue its Faculty Recital series with a performance of “Four Octaves, Roughly: The Exciting Range and Breadth of the Horn” this Saturday from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in David H. Nutt Auditorium. Music department faculty members Leander Star, on French horn, and his accompanist Stacy Rodgers will offer […]
The self-proclaimed “queer feminist” Violet Valley Bookstore in Water Valley will celebrate its grand opening at 6 tonight. The event will feature readings by director of UM’s English MFA program Derrick Harriell and other writers. The celebration is free and open to the public. The store is the brainchild of English professor Jaime Harker, who […]
Renowned fiber artist Mary Zicafoose will give a lecture titled “The Power of Cloth” at 6 p.m. tonight at the University of Mississippi Museum. A reception will follow the lecture. The lecture will detail stories of Zicafoose’s personal life and her work as an artist. Some of Zicafoose’s tapestry series are currently on display in […]
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