McSweeney's Issue 84 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)

McSweeney's three-time National Magazine Award-winning quarterly brings you our 84th issue: coming to you inside a deluxe and mysterious canvas artisan's tool scroll. This is an issue that must be seen to be believed.

McSweeney's 84 comes packed, improbably, inside an artisan's tool roll, the kind of portable canvas organizer that craftspeople of all stripes have stored their crucial implements in (chisels, paintbrushes, carving knives) for centuries

Unroll this durable carryall and find actual pockets of new work in a variety of physical forms: new fiction by André Alexis, Anne de Marcken, Catherine Foulkrod, Dylan Fisher; a stunning story by 2026 Stephen Dixon Award-winner Zhenglong Yang (chosen by Catherine Lacey); letters by John Freeman, Anita Felicelli, and Denise Napoli Long; paintings by Cecily Brown; an 8.25” × 11.4” comic by Laura Callaghan; nonslip work gloves by Tucker Nichols, with handwritten use tips from the artist printed across the gloves using Grip Dot technology (for a superior grip); useful information from Nathaniel Russell; a choose-your-own-adventure-esque graphic story by Anders Nilsen, printed (naturally) on a 150cm-long tape measure; and, inconceivably, more.

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.