It’s time to choose a summer adventure with the newest issue of The Southern Review. You can join a young girl’s rebellion as she steals her parents’ boat and becomes a pirate on a small local lake in Benjamin Schaefer’s surreal story, “Pirates,” or venture across the French countryside in search of family with Monique Debruxelles’s “Heart of Ashes.” You might recall a harrowing encounter with hurricane season and cardboard in Marshall Moore’s essay, “Storms and Boxes,” or take a walk along the beach with Erika Meitner’s poem, “A Strikingly Unsettled Portent.” Teresa Pham-Carsillo considers race and the process of adjusting to a home country in “Thank U, Ghosts,” while Leila Gueirrero explores inspiration in the mundane with a selection of microessays from her book, Theory of Gravity. Along with new poems by Charles Rafferty, Maitreyabandhu, and Mary Angelino, the issue features the paintings of Martha Hughes, whose interpretations of prosaic interiors evoke the momentary uneasiness we sometimes feel in familiar spaces.