Form and Emptiness: An Interview with Safwan Dahoul K. Iver See more of Safwan Dahoul's artwork in Volume 38.1 here. As one of the...

Theater of Inheritance Fenced in the naming, a music: A crescendo of water lifts a shape. This inspires the first conscious attempt at...

An Interview with Julietta Singh Katya Buresh Photo: Chase Joynt Julietta Singh is a writer and academic whose work engages the enduring...

Handwashing Dishes You find yourself in Phoenix in your mother’s dark kitchen amid piles of dirty dishes, glasses, pots, and baking pans....

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner So Young Koo As a Korean living in America, for me the title of Michelle Zauner’s memoir conjures up...

Crushing It by Jennifer L. Knox Tanner Barnes Jennifer L. Knox’s latest poetry collection, Crushing It, is hilarious and heartbreaking....

Lizard Brain how embarrassing of you / to have so many goddamn mouths / each one full / of unclaimed paper receipts / spilling out of...

The Witch of Eye by Kathryn Nuernberger Isabella Tommasone In this curious and perceptive collection of essays, The Witch of Eye,...

Days of Distraction by Alexandra Chang Li Zhuang The simplistic and elegantly designed cover of Alexandra Chang’s debut novel, Days of...

An Interview with Mary Jo Bang Natalie Tombasco Photo: Matt Valentine Mary Jo Bang has published eight poetry collections, including A...

An Interview with John Brandon Sean Hooks John Brandon has published five books with McSweeney’s, including Arkansas (2008), adapted into...

Gargoyle by Jake Hanrahan Will Anderson Having started his own independent journalism organization, Popular Front, more than two years...

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong Li Zhuang As writers, we play with words and punctuation so much that we start to see the...

An Interview with Spencer Krug Zach Linge Photo: Tero Ahonen Spencer Krug's career spans projects and decades. He is the frontman of Wolf...

"About the Work" with Denise Duhamel In our "About the Work" series, Savannah Trent asks recent contributors for insight into their...

The True Jazz of Wesley Brown's 'Tragic Magic' Aram Mrjoian The first book republished as part of McSweeney’s Of The Diaspora series,...

"About the Work" with Brandon Taylor In our "About the Work" series, Savannah Trent asks recent contributors for insight into their...

“Blood Diary”: An Interview with Min Liu K. Iver MIN LIU is a Taiwanese animation artist/illustrator and tattoo artist. She earned her BA...

The Malevolent Volume by Justin Phillip Reed Devan Schnecker The Malevolent Volume is a text that inhabits several registers. It is at...

The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante Keri Miller “Lies, lies, adults forbid them and yet they tell so many,” says Giovanna,...