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, Louise Glück, Greil Marcus, Javier Marías, Adam Phillips, and Kay Ryan.
The Threepenny Review
Contributors
Table Talk
Reader,
Thanks to Our Donors
A Note on the Artworks
Devotional
Quoting the Bible
The Death of Tyler Clementi
Negative • To whoever crossed out with a blue X the word “Sea” written in white cursive on the top iron guardrail of my second-favorite bridge over the Huron River
Portrait of the Artist
LIVINGSTON PRESS
Snake Handler
Donating My Body to a Figure Drawing Class
Mental Music
A Symposium on Childhood • 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.
Photo Credits
5 O’Clockface
Child Actors
Feeding the Hungry, 1986
Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained (1994)
Retiring
A Time and Times and the Dividing of Time
The Stowaway