Great collection of short stories accompanied by two-page, full color title pages each featuring a horse in an urban setting. Although the illustrations are wonderful, this issue is rather straightforward. ( )

A pretty standard McSweeney's; Steven Millhauser's "The Tower" was very good, but the rest weren't memorable, and the design wasn't very creative. ( )

The continually excellent McSweeney's fair. "Yuri" and "The Ape Man" were my favorite stories. There were several other engaging tales and I didn't feel that any of these offerings fell completely flat. One of the few stories that I wanted to like, but didn't was "A Death in Custody" which is a tragic real life story of the maltreatment and murder of Aborigines by Australian police. It was sad, but mostly served to remind me of a hundred similar stories from the last hundred years that document these tragedies without materially effecting it. I'm not quite ready to be surprised that "even today" humans can be racist assholes. Then again, maybe I'm just hard-hearted. ( )

A good group of stories (plus one bit of reporting from Palm Island, following up a report in McSweeney's 21), but not as entertaining as the 23rd issue. Terry Wright's one page long surrealist piece, entitled 'The Butcher, The Baker', is worth reading several times. ( )

I absolutely adored this edition of McSweeney's much more so than the last. My favorite story had to be The Tower - what an intriguing idea, and yet incredibly Dr. Seuss, if you know what I mean. A great, innovative collection. ( )