Just in time to weather the blazing heat, it’s the newest issue of The Southern Review! Join Brian Trapp for a trip to the aptly named “Camp Happy,” or idle away in a ferret-filled bedroom with your high school buddy in Peter Orner’s “Ross Bernstein.” Yang Shuang-zi considers the lives of Taiwanese schoolgirls during the Japanese occupation in “Sendan Blossom Season,” while Hungarian writer Péter Moesko considers an unlikely friendship between a tenant and a landlord’s son in “Sam’s House.” Jay Deshpande’s “Proportion” is a poem that shows how art and craft can be like prayer for the artist, as the speaker admires the aged yet enduring paved roads in an old Italian town on a hot summer afternoon, while John A. Nieves also ponders the season in “Mainspring Barrel,” about a writer’s awareness of needing to write things down, as inspired by a summer lightning storm. Along with new poems by Krystyna Dąbrowska, Kim Addonizio, and Piotr Florcyz, this issue includes the paintings of Adrienne Brown-David, who aims for her work to reinforce joy of Black childhood, the humanization of Black youth, and how that relates to growing up not only in the South, but in America as a whole.