25 years of McSweeney's! Celebrate with Art Spiegelman, Lydia Davis, author trading cards, award-winning fiction, and more, inside McSweeney's 74.

This is it, the moment you (or we, at least) have been waiting for: our official twenty-fifth anniversary issue is out today. Gaze in awe-struck wonder at the seventy-fourth issue of our National Magazine Awardwinning McSweeneys Quarterly.

As featured in the Washington Post, this dazzling and must-be-seen-to-be-believed issue comes to you housed inside a lunchbox with an illustration etched in tin by the legendary Art Spiegelman. Open the boxs satisfying metal clasps to find original pieces by Lydia Davis, Catherine Lacey, and David Horvitz printed onto pencils and whose meaning is designed to change throughout the pencils lifespan; a portfolio of pareidolia art by Spiegelman himself, wherein he teases out images from random watercolor inkblots; AND three packs of collectible author cards, packaged in real tear-away baseball-card packaging and featuring some of the finest writers of all time, including David Foster Wallace, Hanif Abdurraqib, Clarice Lispector, Miranda July, George Saunders, and so many more.

Find all these these miraculous objects waiting patiently to reinvigorate your childlike sense of discovery, alongside the McSweeneys Anthology of Contemporary Literature. Comprising some of the greatest works of McSweeneys past decadewith a new introduction by longtime editor Claire Boyleyoull find award-winning, shortlisted, anthologized, and otherwise feted and beloved stories from Lesley Nneka Arimah, T.C. Boyle, Mimi Lok, Kevin Moffett, Adrienne Celt, Bryan Washington, Samanta Schweblin, C Pam Zhang, Eskor David Johnson, and Julia Dixon Evans. Whether youve been with us from the beginning or are just joining us now, we guarantee a reading experience of pure ecstatic rapture.

Subscribe by July 1, and youll get both this stunning lunchbox AND the acclaimed and perhaps equally stunning manifesto issue (plus two more no less jaw-dropping issues). AND if you subscribe by June 30 you can take part in our summer blowout sale, bringing you all four issues for just $80.75 plus shipping!

Its been more than a quarter century now, but were just getting started, and the future has never looked brighter. Subscribe today!

Please note that due to unforeseen circumstances in our warehouse there was a slight delay in getting this issue out to subscribers. If you have already subscribed, rest assured the issue is on its way and we will do everything in our power to avoid this happening again.