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The Threepenny Review

Summer 2026
Magazine

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

Thanks to Our Donors

A Note on the Artworks

Frankenstein's Creature, Persuaded to Get Down

The Four-Body Problem

I have seen the greatest minds of my generation

Photo Credits

Nerve

Untitled

Too Far Afield

Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother

BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS ESSAY

Keeping Going

Back Cove

THE EUSTACE DIAMONDS

Tagged and Free

Ink

Rewire

The Good Doctor

Collar

Ma'am-in-Law

Evacuation Route

Stranger Than Fiction

Loose Leaf Monday

The Picture and Its Frame

Tango in New York

Operas in Concert

Crocodile Tears

Formats

  • OverDrive Magazine

Languages

  • English