MCSWEENEY'S

Egger's auto-biography. The book that started it all. Learn More

in a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter’s college tuition, and finally do something great. Learn More

It’s 1897, and the world seems on the verge of offering its outcasts a new kind of opportunity. Learn More

Do we have free will? What counts as justice in the Peruvian Amazon? Does evolutionary theory make ethics a sham? Is Catherine Zeta-Jones objectively hotter than Drew Barrymore? Learn More

Always Apprentices collects five years of intimate, wide-ranging conversations with many of today’s most prominent writers, taken from the pages of the Believer. Learn More

ANIMALS OF THE OCEAN, IN PARTICULAR THE GIANT SQUID advances many heretofore unexplored discoveries and opinions. Learn More

There are the days: the dappled grounds, the aimless yardwork, the hours in the booth giving directions to families in SUVs. Learn More

Recently, while moving into a new house, Elizabeth Gilbert unpacked some boxes of family books that had been sitting in her mother's attic for decades. Among the old, dusty hardcovers was a book called At Home on the Range (or, How To Make Friends with Your Stove) by Gilbert's great-grandmother, Margaret Yardley Potter. Learn More

At recess one day, sisters Elsie and Theo spy a nut wiggling on the ground. Learn More