McSweeney's #82

McSweeney's three-time National Magazine Award-winning quarterly brings you our 82nd issue: a stunning double issue featuring a never before translated novella by Alejandro Zambra!

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 

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 
Publisher: McSweeney's Books
Pages: 200pp
Size: 5 x 8.5 x 1.75
Notes: attached 2-volume hardcover
Release Date: June 18, 2026
ISBN: 978-1963270716