The Southern Review's spring 2012 issue is now available! Featuring a talk piece by David Antin, a play excerpt from Tommy Nohilly's "Blood from a Stone," and new fiction set in Greece, Montréal, and post-revolution Iran. Essays include Susan McCallum-Smith's "Tartar," a masterful essay on Muriel Spark that blends the personal and the scholarly, and Joe Wilkins's "All Apologies." New poems by Christine Garren, Sarah Kain Gutowski, Ron De Maris, Jay Rogoff, Chelsea Rathburn, and others.

Ring in the New Year in style with The Southern Review's jewel-studded winter 2012 issue. Featured poets include Charles Simic, Mary Ruefle, Stephen Dunn, Bob Hicok, Wendy Barker, Elana Bell, Daniel Johnson, and Anna Journey. A snow-dusted Copenhagen at Christmas is the site of Thomas E. Kennedy's surprising and movingly human account of what it means to face death and emerge grateful to the world. Jason Brown brings us "Wintering Over," a chilling story about an artist couple isolated in a neglected Maine house over a winter that may be prove too long for them to endure. New fiction by Stuart Dybek, Christie Hodgen, Christine Sneed, Ted Sanders, and Reese Okyong Kwon joins nonfiction by Rachel Ida Buff and paintings by Gwyneth Scally.

Delve into the unknown in The Southern Review's autumn 2011 issue. Established and emerging writers navigate the landscapes of Zimbabwe and Key West, contemplate art after 9/11, explore growing up in Los Angeles, and trace the evolution of the intellectual thriller. New poetry by Sharon Olds, Christine Poreba, Seth Abramson, Jehanne Dubrow, and Matthew Olzmann, among others, joins stories and essays by eleven writers, including Megan Mayhew Bergman, Judy Troy, Christopher Ross, David Heddendorf, and Angela Morales. Featured artist Béatrice Coron's stunning papercut silhouettes embody the mystery, reflection, and enchantment found in the latest issue of TSR.

Travel to Burma, Russia, Japan, and the beaches of Captiva Island in the pages of The Southern Review’s summer 2011 issue, which brims with great new stories by Christine Sneed, Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry, David Yost, Quan Barry, and others. Essays include Scott Nadelson’s meditation on three writers who shaped his writing life and Peggy Shinner’s exploration of the cultural meaning of hair across space and time. New poetry by writers including Alice Friman, Jim Daniels, Ron De Maris, Laura Kasischke, Peter Marcus, Will Schutt, John Witte, and our own Jen McClanaghan accompanies exuberant artwork by Soren Vandegaard of New Orleans.