McSweeney's is today one of America's best literary magazines. Its compilers are committed to finding new voices, gifted but underappreciated writers, and pushing the literary form forward at all times. Each issue of McSweeney's is unique in both design and content.

1. Issue 27
McSweeney's 27 brings together a previously uncategorized cadre of draftsmen, doodlers, and artistic cartoonists.

It includes a stand-alone Art Spielgelman sketchbook and the third of three volumes features text-based humor illustrations, from Magritte's "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" to David Shrigley, Paul Hornschmeier, Jeffrey Brown, Joe Brainard, Steig, Vonnegut, Goya, Duchamp, and more.

Plus work by Raymond Pettibon, Jim Shepard, Stephen King, Tucker Nichols, and many others.
Paperback 288 pages

2. Issue 26
McSweeney's 26 comes in three parts: two small, oblong books of stories (by John Brandon, Amanda Davis, Uzodinma Iweala, and eight more), and a third book, Where to Invade Next, edited by Stephen Elliott and inspired by actual Pentagon documents, which seeks to give a picture of just how our government could create a rationale for its next round of wars.
Hardback 228 pages