Out now: Paul Willems is BACK in the Spring 2024 Southern Review

My translations of Belgian fabulist Paul Willems’ stories “The Water Globes” and “Rose of the Snows” feature in the latest issue of the Southern Review!

Enjoy a blustery spring day with the newest issue of The Southern Review. You can join Nick Fuller Googins for a raucous surfing trip filled with satirical life advice from Mario Lopez, or investigate a disappearance and the depths of a self-help YouTuber’s comments section with a new story by Alix Ohlin. Gloria L. Huang imagines a mother contemplating an experimental medical procedure, while Arna Bontemps Hemenway imagines a similarly experimental aid for grief. Meanwhile, L. I. Henley describes the encroachment of the wild upon the domestic, and the domestic upon the wild, in the Mojave desert, in a new essay, “Dispatches from the Ridge,” and Chera Hammons explores the arbitrary nature of the world, a place in which sometimes we are born only to be almost devoured and then saved (temporarily) in a new poem, “When the Cottontail Doesn’t Return.” Along with poems by Natsume Sōseki, Okwudili Nebeolisa, Louisiana Poet Laureate Alison Pelegrin, and David Wojahn, this issue features the work of Andorran artist Jesús Castillo Díaz, whose black-and-white drawings center the architecture and landscape of his home country.