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 Mechanics of Inertia

Thanks to Our Donors

A Note on the Artworks

Allies

A Gap in the Mountains

Pickup Truck

Photo Credits

True to His Strangeness

Crows Use Pro Tools

The Birdwatchers

A Symposium on Proust • 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.

Killing Time

My First Saturday on the Yard

Einsteinian Afternoon

Plot as Character

A Felling

The Bus Driver

Early Fellini

How It Feels

In the Artist's Own Words • Editor's Note: This article reproduces the program note for pianist Víkingur Ólafsson's Carnegie Hall concert on March 24, 2026. The piece is co-authored by Víkingur Ólafsson and Halla Oddny Magnúsdóttir.

THE EUSTACE DIAMONDS

Legacies of Error

Means of Meaning