Monthly Archives: October 2022

William Pei Shih’s story, “Necessary Evils,” appears in the spring 2022 issue of The Southern Review. Here he discusses his story’s guiding philosophies, the lure of characters who subvert expectations, and the potential for pettiness in academia. Jake Zawlacki, Editorial Assistant: Your story opens with Schopenhauer’s “hedgehog dilemma” and has a bit of Sartre in the […]