The Metropolitan Review
The Metropolitan Review, Joshua Doležal, Brandon Taylor, David, Philip Freeman, Alexander Sorondo, Elroy Rosenberg, Madeleine Adams, Henry Begler, Donna Masini, David S. Wills, Vanessa Ogle, Sam Jennings, David Polonoff, Daniel Falatko, Bruce Wagner, Audrey Clare Farley, 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 | 252 | Subscribers | Read | metropolitanreview.org |
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I Fear LA
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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.
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.
Arts journalist, cultural history, 27
writer in LA
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.
I am the editor of Beatdom literary journal and the author of books on William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Hunter S. Thompson, and Haruki Murakami. I live on a farm in Cambodia and raise goats and geese.
TMR poetry editor
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.
Novelist
PhD, author, lit agent, @NarrativelyAcademy instructor. Writing on the cultural history of Pentecost, ghosts, and may-being, or what pulses through people, texts, and institutions, even those seeming like stone. Always reading John Caputo.
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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