McSWEENEY’S ISSUE 79

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This is a preorder. McSweeney’s Issue 79 will be released in late summer with copies sending prior to release. All subscriptions to McSweeney’s Quarterly purchased by October 1, 2025, will include this issue.

Coming to you at the intersection of book and tapestry, the seventy-ninth issue of our National Magazine Award–winning quarterly is embroidered from head to toe—using precisely 133,095 stitches of thread—with the art of Marta Monteiro. Inside this tactile, textile, tangerine-backdropped, cloth-bound art object are nine new stories, three fresh novel excerpts, six timely letters, an essay as sharp as a blade, a stunningly surreal slice of a graphic novel by Patrick Keck, and a shockingly beautiful, hot-pink suite of Mary Magdalenes painted by Leanne Shapton.

As your fingers caress the raised topography of this issue’s beyond-belief weave, marvel at a story by Joseph Earl Thomas in which time stops mid-dunk; a novel excerpt by Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff in which invented languages make a play; a story by Ahmed Naji that circles Cairo rap clashes; a captivating, climate-terror portrait of a story by T.C. Boyle; three totally crisp, sentence-gem-adorned stories by Diane Williams; dazzling letters by Jac Jemc, Meng Jin, Rebekah Bergman, and so much more!

Blow a kiss goodbye to summer, and brush your hands over the neon-threaded landscape of Issue 79 to feel a magazine that, both inside and out, is truly like no other.

Featuring new stories by:
Joseph Earl Thomas
Valeria Parrella, translated from Italian by Sonya Gray Redi
T.C. Boyle
James Kaelan
Caroline Beimford
Diane Williams
Ahmed Naji, translated from Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette

A new essay by:
Camonghne Felix

Novel excerpts by:
Josephine Rowe
Joanna Ruocco
Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff

A graphic novel excerpt by:
Patrick Keck

A portfolio of paintings by:
Leanne Shapton

Letters by:
Meng Jin
Abraham Adams
Jac Jemc
Rebekah Bergman
Hannah Pittard
Enrico Rotelli

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