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Back on Planet Dostoevsky
Part three of a four-part review. Photograph by Stephanie Berger.3:15 P.M. “If you knew all the yams I have to tell them,” one character says, according to the supertitles. I am briefly interested,...
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The Only Ones Left on the Island
The final installment of a four-part review. 5:56 P.M. Another break. As sometimes happens with people under duress, our biological systems have warped into synch and pretty much all 400-odd culture...
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Obstacle Course
The perils of growing up surrounded by books. Illustration: Mark Fearing This month marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of The Threepenny Review. They’re celebrating with Table Talk from the Threepenny...
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Staff Picks: Pinkies, Pain, Plays
From And She Would Stand Like This. Photo by Ahron R. Foster. Lately, our Southern editor, John Jeremiah Sullivan, has been researching the early formation of the blues, in the years 1870 to 1910....
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Hero’s Journey: An Interview with Taylor Mac
Taylor Mac in act 7 of A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, at St. Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn, 2016. Photo: Teddy Wolff. In October 2016, at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, the theater artist Taylor...
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Staff Picks: Big Fish, Bombay, and Busted Pinkie Toes
M. F. Husain, Sprinkling Horses, ca. 1975, oil on canvas, 43 1/4″ x 92 1/2″. While the Guggenheim is rewriting the narrative of twentieth-century art history, with revision inked in pages upon pages of...
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Staff Picks: Sports, Sontag, and Scheherazade
SLASH. Image courtesy of Emily Allan and Leah Hennessey. Emily Allan and Leah Hennessey’s play SLASH is so enjoyable it’s like having dessert for two hours with no intermission. One advertisement...
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Staff Picks: Broccoli Puzzles, Bot Poetry, and Banana Pudding
Emily Ruskovich. I spent Christmas with my boyfriend’s family in Hudson, New York. Among other goodies, my stocking was stuffed with books, and I squirreled Emily Ruskovich’s Idaho over to the...
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