Arts & Culture

Off Square Books will host award-winning author Nate Blakeslee at 5 p.m. tonight for a signing of his newest book, “American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West.” Blakeslee, a native Texan and writer-at-large for Texas...

One of the great joys of Christmas as a child is waking up to see all your presents under the tree, with tags marked “from Santa.” This bearded, red-coated mystery man brings happiness and Christmas cheer each December, but as...

Artists Fred Nice, Silas Reed, Flyrich Double and many more will perform original music at Proud Larry’s this Thursday, reviving the Oxford Square after a weeklong Thanksgiving break. This collaborative concert event, “Issa Lit Thursday,” put together by Nice, an...

Hello, everyone, and welcome to our final installment of our weekly playlists. Hopefully you've returned from the break rejuvenated and ready to work hard on finals (LOL). Since it's officially after Thanksgiving, you can now unashamedly blast those Christmas tunes...

Local author Jesmyn Ward’s fictional work “Sing, Unburied, Sing” carefully crafts a story of the dead that speaks for the dying. The novel received the 2017 National Book Award, making Ward the first woman to win two National Book Awards...

Whether hitchhiking through New Zealand, breaking horses in Mexico or making a pilgrimage in Japan while writing books, it’s just another day for author Catherine Lacey. Lacey is the Grisham writer-in-residence at Ole Miss and the author of two novels,...

On her 14th birthday, Cassie Howard heard members of her favorite boy band, New Kids on the Block, singing happy birthday to her from the air conditioner. Her mother, Donna Howard, knew then that something wasn’t right. After a year...

In a small-town New Jersey pizzeria, sounds of an old rusty Pac-Man machine blast in the distance, while two kids fight over who gets the next turn on the pinball machine in the corner and poke at one another until...

Black Friday — a consumer’s dream and a retail employee’s nightmare. No matter if you are a fan of the holiday or someone who runs for cover from the bargain shoppers and early risers, it’s hard to escape the promotional...

Southside Art Gallery in downtown Oxford will be hosting a reception from 5 p.m. – 8 p.m. Thursday for photographs by Maude Schuyler Clay and the paintings of William Dunlap. The exhibit will be up until December 2. Photos by Logan Conner