McSweeney's Issue 82 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)

The latest issue of McSweeney's National Magazine Award-winning quarterly comes to you housed inside an M-shaped, accordion-style, joined-at-the-back double-hardcover, folding and unfolding with art by Rob Sato to reveal a world that expands when the book is open and contracts when the book is closed. Inside this architectural feat of a book-art object is a stunning work of never-before-translated fiction by Alejandro Zambra; alongside dazzling new literature from Kenan Orhan, Deb Olin Unferth, and Hannah Kingsley-Ma; letters by Halle Butler, John Wray, and Massoud Hayoun; an Odyssean, toad-centric, natural-wine-drunk novella by Tom Bubul; a twelve-page, two-book-wide fever dream of a comic by Matt Panuska that can be read only if and when both books are open at once; a twenty-four-page booklet of additional drawings by Sato; and so much more. Breathe in the sweet late-spring air, and let this mysterious puzzle box of an issue envelop you.

Featuring fiction by:
Alejandro Zambra (translated by Megan McDowell)
Andrew Roe
Avigayl Sharp
Deb Olin Unferth
Hannah Kingsley-Ma
Jean Marc Ah-Sen
Kenan Orhan
Matt Lapata
Paige Cooper
Tom Bubul

Art by:
Jesse Jacobs
Rob Sato

A comic by:
Matt Panuska

Letters by:
Emily Nemens
Halle Butler
John Wray
Massoud Hayoun
Olivia Parkes

Ever changing, each issue of the quarterly is completely redesigned (there have been hardcovers and paperbacks, an issue with two spines, an issue with a magnetic binding, an issue that looked like a bundle of junk mail, and an issue that looked like a sweaty human head), but always brings you the very best in new literary fiction.