The lives of others are on display in The Southern Review’s spring issue. Join an elderly Chilean woman and her surly teenage assistant as they create an art installation from videos, secretly taken, of a neighboring apartment complex in a new story by Antonio Díaz Oliva. You can watch over the decline of a rival professor in William Pei Shih’s “Necessary Evils,” or join Heather Aruffo as she observes the culture of gun ownership in her adopted home of Alaska. Lisa Low’s “Crown for the Girl Inside” presents an Asian American writer in conversation with her therapist in a formal poem about identity, grief, writing, and race, while Charlotte Pence shows how we are complicit in violence and cruelty when we do not intervene in “Stingray Valentine.” Along with new poems by Sharon Olds, Jose Hernandez Diaz, and torrin a. greathouse, this issue features the black-and-white photography of Olivier Desmet, who captures stunning images of people and their absence on the Northern California coast.