Recently added articles from The Southern Review:
Editor's note.(Editorial)
Jun 22, 2009; ... I have had the honor of serving as editor and director of The Southern Review since January 2008. This issue you hold is my fifth in print, and this is my first editor's note. I don't like editors' notes. The greatness of the work contained here speaks for itself; there is no need for ...
Summer Is Sweet and Long.(Poem)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Budapest, 2006 <Pre> Summer is sweet and long, the evening a jingling bicycle bell: Here I come . It is hours yet till dark. It is decades since the last occupation and along the avenue people in the cafes are laughing. There is almost nothing to mourn; the weatherman calls for ...
Darkly.(Poem)
Jun 22, 2009; ... for Dave Smith <Pre> The moss never falls. However gray, it hangs like shirts left to weather and rag over the road and the dead-end rail and in all the branches from there to the shore and then as far upriver as you can see. Here it's only open water, empty sky, two ends ...
Homochitto.(Poem)
Jun 22, 2009; ... for Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Deesouthwest Mississippi <Pre> In what language did it mean the river, this tongue of rust that gives the forest a name? The trees can't tell you and the forest means you are alone and a hundred years from Natchez when the ...
The Formalists.(Short story)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Our father he worked in factories, he believed in automobiles, he lined us up like garden implements against the white wall of the garage, Rebecca, Colin, and me. He did that every year at Christmas, marked our heights with a carpenter's pencil, until the year I turned ten and the twins were ...