The days are growing shorter, but that’s just more time to settle in with the autumn issue of The Southern Review. You can join an unlikely vacation at a remote European resort with Woo Dayoung’s “Night Swimming,” or get ready for the Rumble in the Jungle with a group of musicians in Alejandro Puyana’s “Making Salsa.” Nobel laureate Grazia Deledda ponders the consequences of dreams and misunderstanding in her story “The Lady in White,” while Dominique Ahkong contemplates aging, ritual, and girlhood in two new poems. New York Times best-selling author Maggie Smith returns to our pages with three new poems detailing, among other things, the strangeness of a honeymoon, or how even an extraordinary celestial body might only illuminate something mundane. New poetry by Danusha Laméris, Matthew Minicucci, Charles Rafferty, among many others, is also featured. This issue highlights the artwork and installations of Victoria Manganiello who aims to explore the relationship between human beings and the materials used in her projects.