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.

Contributors

THE THREEPENNY REVIEW

Table Talk

The Way With Porcupines

Thanks to Our Donors

A Note on the Artworks

The Great Unknowing

The Wind Has Died

On Certainty and On Doubt

Dark Morning

Opening the Field

House of Mystery/Oregon Vortex

Strange Coast

Tarantula

Our Local Dead

Obituary

A Symposium on Anxiety • 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. The subject was decided upon in the winter, just before the arrival of our present Great Anxiety, which at first threatened to overwhelm the symposium. But we urged our authors to consider, if they could, those other, older anxieties that had consumed us in the time before, and they found the distraction helpful. We hope you do, too.

The Stonemason’s Wife

Class

Listening to Handel

Drottningholm

The Choreographer Speaks

The Master

My Mother as Tom Cruise

Rachel Cusk, Euro-English, and Me

One of Us

Pork Chop Hill