This past July, founding editor Marc Smirnoff “was fired after being accused of sexual harassment. Also, he admitted that he gave alcohol to under-age interns. … Four months later the air has cleared a bit. The Oxford American has installed a new editor, Roger D. Hodge, formerly the editor of Harper’s Magazine … But it’s worth pausing to revisit why this quarterly matters, and why so many people, not just in the South, will be paying attention to the changes there.”