The Metropolitan Review
The Metropolitan Review, Joshua Doležal, Brandon Taylor, David, Philip Freeman, Udith Dematagoda, Alexander Sorondo, Lev Xue, Daniel Oppenheimer, Elroy Rosenberg, Jesse Relkin, Donna Masini, Vanessa Ogle, Archie Cornish, Sam Jennings, David Polonoff, John McMillian, Daniel Falatko, Noah Rinsky, Habib SabetThe Metropolitan Review is a books and culture review magazine founded in 2025.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Daily |
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| Issues | 239 | Subscribers | Read | metropolitanreview.org |
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Drawing a Blank
Fernand Léger, The Great Parade, 1954, Oil on canvas
Get Your Tickets for The Metropolitan Review's First Ever Print Launch
Rumor has it TMR has readers in high places.
"Lush" and "Do You Like What I Was When It Was Already Was?"
Oil painting of roses by Albert-Tibulle Furcy de Lavault, Getty Images
The Very Good Soldier
Bret Easton Ellis in Paris, France, 1992, Photograph, Getty Images
Authors
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The Metropolitan Review is a books and culture review magazine founded in 2025.
Author of a memoir and a poetry collection. Essays in Missouri Review, Kenyon Review, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Brandon Taylor is the author of Minor Black Figures
Philip Freeman is the co-founder of the arts and culture site (and record label) Burning Ambulance.
Writer, academic and General Editor of Hyperidean Press.
Alexander Sorondo is the author of "Big Reader Bad Grades," a newsletter about books, culture, and work. His debut novel CUBAFRUIT came out in 2025. He works at a grocery store on Miami Beach.
love electronics, dogs, and technology.
Daniel Oppenheimer's Substack is Eminent Americans, a newsletter and podcast about the contemporary American intellectual scene. He is the author of Exit Right (Simon & Schuster, 2016) and Far From Respectable (University of Texas Press, 2021).
Arts journalist, cultural history, 27
Reader, writer
Author of 4:30 Movie (Norton, 2018), Turning to Fiction (Norton, 2004), That Kind of Danger (Beacon, 1994)--and a novel, About Yvonne (Norton,1998). A professor of English/ Creative Writing at Hunter College, she lives in NYC.
TMR poetry editor
I'm a freelance writer living in London and I also teach English literature.
American writer in London - Associate Editor @ The Hinternet - Film Critic @ The Metropolitan Review.
David Polonoff is a satirist and novelist living in New York City. His work has appeared in the Village Voice, East Village Eye, and on his Substack, Tropelessness. His novel, WannaBeat, is available from Trouser Press Books and Amazon.
Official Substack of John McMillian. Historian at Georgia State University. Companion of Foner (the dog). Books: @SimonBooks, @OxUniPress, @thenewpress. Bylines: @washingtonpost, @cityjournal, @theatlantic, @bostonglobe, @TheTLS, @wsj, and more.
Novelist
men suffer too
Habib Sabet is a writer based in Vermont. His work has appeared in County Highway, Pitchfork, Aquarium Drunkard, and VTDigger, among many other publications.
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