Sheila Heti, author of the acclaimed How a Person Should Be? and coeditor of the best-selling anthology Women in Clothes, along with the students of 826 Valencia writing lab will edit this year’s anthology. Their compilation includes new fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, and the category-defying gems that have become one of the hallmarks of this lively collection. Divine Providence / Quim Monzo—An excerpt from Notes of a Crocodile / Qiu Miaojin—This Rain / Catherine Pond—My Family's Slave / Alex Tizon—Eight Bites / Carmen Maria Machado—The Deaths of Henry King / Jesse Ball and Brain Evenson—A Refuge for Jae-In Doe: Fugues in the key of English major / Seo-Young Chu—In conversation with Vi Khi Nao / Stacey Tran—Come and Eat the World's largest shrimp cocktail in Mexico's Massacre Capital / Diego Enrique Osorno—The Uninhabitable Earth / David Wallace-Wells—An excerpt from Hunger / Roxane Gay—An excerpt from Blacks and the Master/Slave Relation / Frank B Wilderson III—A Tribute to Alvin Buenaventura / Andrew Leland, Chris Ware, Daniel Clowes and Anders Nilsen—Six selected comics / Chris (Simpsons artist) — Artist's Statement / Kara Walker—Wave at the People Walking Upside Down / Tongo Eisen-Martin—Meanwhile, on Another Planet / Gunnhild Oyehaug—The David Party / David Leavitt—The Reenactors / Katherine Augusta Mayfield—Your Black Friend / Ben Passmore—Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild / Kathy Fish—Cat Person / Kristen Roupenian—An Excerpt from The Antipodes / Annie Baker—A Fair Accusation of Sexual Harassment or a Witch Hunt? / Lucy Huber—Lizard-Baby / Benjamin Schaefer—Chasing Waterfalls / László Krasznahorkai—Love, Death & Trousers: Eight Found Stories / Laura Francis and Alexander Masters—On Future and Working Through What Hurts / Hanif Abdurraqib—The Universe Would Be So Cruel / Souvankham Thammavongsa—A Love Story / Samantha Hunt