The autumn issue of The Southern Review is here, and it’s chock-full of mysteries lurking just out of sight. Uncover the truth behind a long-forgotten disappearance in Afsheen Farhadi’s “Something Buried,” and join Kirstin Allio for a family trip gone awry in her story, “Ambush.” You can read new work by Mexican poet Paula Abramo, as translated by Dick Cluster, and consider the history of female automatons crafted by men in Rebecca Morgan Frank’s “The Mechanical Eves.” Along with poems by Charles Rafferty, Nancy Chen Long, and Brandon Rushton, this issue also features the work of Leslie Elliottsmith, whose fantastical photography synthesizes layers of images to explore the interplay of humanity with the natural world.