The Threepenny Review

The Threepenny Review is a well-regarded quarterly of the arts and society which has been published since 1980. Every issue contains excellent essays, stories, poems, and memoirs, plus beautiful black-and-white photographs. Its regular writers include six Nobel Prizewinners and four U.S. Poet Laureates; recent issues featured writing by Wendell Berry, Geoff Dyer, Deborah Eisenberg, Richard Ford, Sharon Olds, Darryl Pinckney, and Elizabeth Tallent

The Threepenny Review

Contributors

Table Talk

The Last Remaining Grandmother

Thanks to Our Donors

A Note on the Artworks

BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS ESSAY

Just Above My Head

Photo Credits

Tennis

Jonah, Afloat in Time

Dominion

The Pelican and the Little Boy

A Silent Partner

THE EUSTACE DIAMONDS

Ode

Entry

A Symposium on New York City • Editor's Note: As is always true in the case of our symposia, these contributions were written simultaneously and independently in response to the assigned topic. Any overlaps, parallels, or violent disagreements are therefore purely serendipitous.

Born to Be Blue

Phonemes

Theology

A Tingeltangel for Kafka

The Invention of Painting

The Yellow Painting

Writeup for the Staffing Firm Newsletter

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