McSweeney's three-time National Magazine Award-winning quarterly brings you our 78th issue, guest-edited by Thi Bui and Vu Tran, the issue comes to you inside a stunning keepsake box and commemorates the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam war.

In McSweeney's 78: The Make Believers (guest edited by Thi Bui and Vu Tran), nine writers of the Vietnamese diaspora write from the eclectic hodgepodge that is their shared imagination of what it means to be "Vietnamese". The work in this issue spans highbrow to lowbrow, proper to naughty, logical to absurd, and painful to funny. This issue will be published on April 30th 2025, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. Its contributors work across diasporic perspectives and multiple languages. In this completely singular, nothing-else-of-its-kind, anthology contributors write (and illustrate!) from a place of collective loss and joy.

Featuring:

• Doan Bui
  
• Thi Bui
  
• H'Rina DeTroy
  
• Anna Moï
  
• Hoài Huong Nguyen
  
• Vaan Nguyen
  
• Isabelle Thuy Pelaud
  
• Bao Phi
  
• Paul Tran
  
• Vu Tran

About McSweeney's Quarterly:
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.

Editors: Dave Eggers / Rita Bullwinkel / Thi Bui / Vu Tran
Publisher: McSweeney's Books
Pages: tba
Size: tba
Notes: box set
Release Date: April 30, 2025
ISBN: 978-1963270198