Author(s): Claire Boyle (Editor); Dave Eggers (Editor); Valeria Luiselli (Guest Editor)

Fiction | South and Central America | North America | Short Stories

McSweeney's three-time National Magazine Award-winning quarterly finished up 2021 with our 65th issue, a high-concept themed issue, guest edited by acclaimed author Valeria Luiselli! 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.
Praise for McSweeney's Quarterly A key barometer of the literary climate.-The New York Times McSweeney's is so much more than a magazine; it's a vital part of our culture. -Geoff Dyer, McSweeney's contributor and author of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi and Otherwise Known as the Human Condition

McSweeney’s 65: Plundered spans the American continent, from a bone-strewn Peruvian desert to inland South Texas to the streets of Mexico City, and considers the violence that shaped it. In fifteen bracing stories, the collection delves into extraction, exploitation, and defiance. How does a community, an individual, resist the plundering of land and peoples?

Guest-edited by Valeria Luiselli with Heather Cleary, McSweeney’s 65 brings together stories of stolen artifacts and endless job searches, of nationality-themed amusement parks and cultish banana plantations. With contributors from Brazil, Cuba, Bolivia, Mexico, Argentina, Ecuador, the United States, and elsewhere, Plundered is a sweeping portrait of a hemisphere on fire.

Contains contributions by:
Valeria Luiselli and Heather Cleary
Karen Tei Yamashita and Ronaldo Lopes de Oliveira
Gabriela Wiener
Laia Jufresa
Carlos Manuel Álvarez
Sophie Braxton
Gabriela Jauregui
Julia Wong Kcomt
Brenda Lozano
Mahogany L. Browne
Samanta Schweblin
Sabrina Helen Li
Edmundo Paz Soldán
Nimmi Gowrinathan
MJ Bond
C. T. Mexica

Letters by:
Claudina Domingo
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Lia García (La Novia Sirena)
Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil

Translations by:
Heather Cleary
Gabriela Jauregui
Megan McDowell
Julia Sanches
Jennifer Shyue
Jenna Tang