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In Magic Hours, award-winning essayist Tom Bissell explores the highs and lows of the creative process. Learn More

A brand-new collection of stay-up-all-night, edge-of-the-seat, fingernail-biting, page-turning short stories. Learn More

Issue Four, reissued. A faithful reproduction of the Winter 2000 issue - now in a sturdier box. Learn More

AKA - McSweeney's At War for the Foreseeable Future and He's Never Been so Scared. Learn More

Even beyond Edmund White's youthful hustler, Joyce Carol Oates' fatherly killer, and Roddy Doyle's Rwandan refugee, Issue 18 will not stay at home. Learn More

Every fourth page is a full-color figurative painting, each one by an excellent artist. Learn More

McSweeney's 28 explores the state of the fable - those astute and irreducible allegories one doesn't see so much anymore in our strange new age, when everyone is wild for the latest parable or apologue but can't find time for anything else. Learn More

Because it seemed important to know in advance, we've dedicated Issue 32 to an investigation of the world to come. Learn More

With tremendous new stories from Steven Millhauser and Roddy Doyle, an epic, genre-shattering novella from Hilton Als, and a really excellent special section on Norway's finest writers (featuring not just Per Petterson but also Kid Icarus and a woman named Blind Margjit)—along with, probably, correspondence from a man we can't yet name and an unbelievable disappearing-ink cover done by Jordan Crane—Issue 35 is a full-to-bursting edition in the tradition of the best ones McSweeney's has ever done. For several hundred pages of unrivaled summer reading, this is your book. Learn More