McSweeney's #83

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!

McSweeney’s 83—the latest issue of our National Magazine Award-winning quarterly literary journal—finds us back in the comfort and safety of single-spined hardcoverness, with a multiply foil-stamped cover by Eric Nyquist and new fiction by Daniel Borzutzky, Chiara Barzini, Miranda McLeod, Shruti Swamy, Rosalind Margulies, and SJ Kim; letters by Robert Plunket, Ashton Politanoff, and Aruni Kashyap; a stunning sixteen-page comic by Kevin Reilly; dreamy interior illustrations by Soomyeong Kim; and so much more.

In this issue there are stalkers, bad dads, driver’s tests, absurdist visa applications, dentist appointments, misbehaving children, vampires, Italian islands, plane crashes, paper factories, Zoom calls, miscarriages, kings, castles, and the Pacific Northwest. Open this issue, and step into a magnificent, many-voiced expanse.

Featuring fiction by:
Rosalind Margulies
Daniel Borzutzky
SJ Kim
Shruti Swamy
Hannah Kingsley-Ma
Chiara Barzini
Cristina Cerrada (translated by Lisa Dillman)
Lisa Locascio Nighthawk
Miranda McLeod
Josh Riedel

Art by:
Soomyeong Kim

A comic by:
Kevin Reilly

Letters by:
Robert Plunket
Ashton Politanoff
Aruni Kashyap
Shanna Farrell
Shannon Sanders 

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: 6 x 8
Notes: hardcover, color
Release Date: September 15. 2026
ISBN: 978-1963270747