Arts & Entertainment

This is an excerpt from Lawrence Well's new book "In Faulkner's Shadow: A Memoir" (University Press of Mississippi, Fall 2020), available for purchase as of September 15, 2020.

The Thacker Mountain Radio Hour will start its fall 2020 season with more listeners than ever.

The Yoknapatawpha Arts Council will introduce a new program this fall aimed at giving small art-based businesses a chance to grow -- and is also looking for just the right person to kick it off.

The Oxford Film Festival announced will be donating $8,825 to the University of Mississippi Foundation’s Roy Lee Chucky Mullins Endowment to benefit student athletes at the school.

The city of Oxford has partnered with local artists for a new pop-up public art project entitled “The Shelter Show.”

The first half of “The Rising Place,” by Mississippi author David Armstrong, is set in Mississippi during the Second World War, when the Deep...

“The Mirror & the Light,” by Hilary Mantel, concludes a brilliant trilogy of historical novels that revolve around Henry VIII’s most cunning and loyal minister. It covers the period from May 19, 1536 to July 28, 1540, opening with Anne Boleyn’s execution and ending on the morning when Thomas Cromwell goes to the headsman’s block himself.

Movies will once again be shown on the silver screen in Oxford with the reopening of Oxford Commons Cinema Grill in two weeks.

A superb book of military history – the first of a trilogy on how the Second World War raged across the Pacific – “Tower...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi along with local attorneys recently represented an Oxford filmmaker and artist John Rash in court recently when he was denied a permit by Lafayette County to project art onto the Courthouse.