This winter, join The Southern Review with stories across the globe. You can bumble across an isolating corner of Tokyo with Ernie Wang in his new story, “Paper Cranes,” or travel to fifth-century Persia in Miroslav Penkov’s “The Boy.” Navigate the precarious politics of a Taiwanese office in Belinda Chang’s “Smoke and Shadow,” or test the boundaries of familial relationships in a Floridian city in a new story by Ladee Hubbard. Okwudili Nebeolisa unveils some of the many hardships faced by African refugees in Spain in his poems “Supplication” and “Carrion,” while French-Senegalese poet Sylvie Kandé offers “The Hot Iron Strikes,” a long poem about a boy who lives with an aunt and bears her cruelty with thanks for taking him in. Along with new poems by David Kirby, Julia B. Levine, and Sharon Olds, this issue also features photographs by Gabriel Isak, who uses the medium to draw and paint surreal images. We also proudly announce the winners of our annual James Olney and Oran Robert Perry Burke Awards.