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11/14/2025

Introducing The Art of McSweeney’s Kids 2026 Wall Calendar. Spend next year with us, appreciating some of the finest and most mind-blowing and -expanding art work we’ve ever published. Featuring art by Jordan Speer, Matt Furie, Lisa Hanawalt, Shawn Harris, and more! It’s so great you’ll wish time would slow to a crawl.

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11/14/2025

goes deep on our upcoming 80th issue! Read the whole piece in our story and subscribe now (via the link in our bio) to get it for yourself.

11/14/2025

"The sign at Carmen’s gate says, 'DEMOCRATS WANT THIS PLANE TO CRASH—EXPECT DELAYS.'"

4:50 a.m. — Carmen arrives at the airport for her 6:15 a.m. flight. 4:53 a.m. — Carmen heads to security early, because she doesn’t have TSA PreChe...

11/14/2025

"Every Thanksgiving, I watch the greatest comedy of all time: Planes, Trains and Automobiles. It’s beautifully written, intelligently directed, and the cast is absolute perfection. There’s just one thing that always bugs me. Why didn’t eagles take them to Chicago?"

Every Thanksgiving, I watch the greatest comedy of all time: Planes, Trains and Automobiles. It’s beautifully written, intelligently directed, and ...

11/14/2025

McSweeney’s 80, our deluxe Trapper-Keeper inspired issue, is coming next week. Get ready to climb aboard this neon dolphin ride of literary excellence.

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11/14/2025

"Life is absurd and funny and serious and sad. The blues helped me understand how you could do all that at once. And for me, what’s powerful about the blues is that it’s good-time music—it’s meant to make you move and dance—but it is also sometimes singing the saddest thing you can ever think of." - KevinYoung

PART I THE BELIEVER: You’ve been in the poetry and publishing worlds for some thirty years now. What changes have you seen in that time? KEVIN YOUN...

11/14/2025

"America, are you seriously not picking up what I’m putting down? I’m old enough to remember when everyone was like 'believe Black women.'"

You know me as the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court. Over the past three years, I’ve tried changing the system from within. I’ve wri...

11/14/2025

Q: It’s starting to sound like underage women are children. What’s the difference between underage women and children?

A: Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

“Many of the headlines have read that [Jeffrey Epstein] is accused of ‘sex with underage women.’ Really? Why are we whitewashing? Why are we not ca...

11/13/2025

"Of course, it doesn’t feel right to want IT to HAPPEN. And it’s obviously not okay to try to make IT HAPPEN. That’s not what this is ABOUT, just to make things CLEAR LEGALLY as far as VARIOUS AGENCIES are concerned."

It’s been so long, you sometimes forget that eventually, IT will HAPPEN. It’s impossible to say when IT will HAPPEN. But it can’t be too long until...

11/13/2025

McSweeney’s 80, our deluxe Trapper-Keeper inspired issue, is coming in just one week. Get ready to climb aboard this neon dolphin ride of literary excellence.

Subscribe today and experience it for yourself (link in bio).

11/13/2025

"I was hit with a burst of artificial generic fruit flavor that brought to mind a strawberry fluoride treatment at the pediatric dentist."

The time? High summer. The place? Binghamton, New York. My husband and I were there for a two-week stint, and though we weren’t native to the place...

11/13/2025

"I am a grown woman, and I reserve the right to feel anything, google it for several hours, send Brynn a text that says 'lol help,' and receive the gold standard of compassionate medical advice."

Senators, please get OUT of my uterus so my friend Brynn, who is almost finished with nursing school, can get in there STAT. My body doesn’t need t...