The Metropolitan Review

The Metropolitan Review is a books and culture review magazine founded in 2025.

I am a Contributing Writer for The Metropolitan Review. I have also written for The Washington Examiner, RealClear Books & Culture, and The Wall Street Journal's Free Expression. Originally from upstate New York, I now live in Washington, D.C.

I am a writer based in New York. My reviews have been published by The New Criterion, Los Angeles Review of Books, Harvard Review, The Metropolitan Review, The Spectator World, Cleveland Review of Books, and The Oxonian Review.

I'm a writer/philosopher from the UK. Bylines in all respected publications. Rage and misfortune. Nietzsche, Kafka, Austen. https://buymeacoffee.com/philiptraylen

Writer in Michigan. Work in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Commonweal, many other places.

Author of The Unmapping (novel published June 2025). Writes on Substack about noticing things. Writing in Metropolitan Review, Romanticon, Republic of Letters, Behind the Bookshelf, and more. www.denisesrobbins.com

Trans dude, MFA student, husband, dog dad, morning person.

South Korea-based writer and contributor to a bunch of fancy travel mags. Author of three books including the recent novel, "The Cuttlefish." Walker, ranter, and critter papa.

Reader, writer

Writer. Ex-Wall Street. Author of THE HERMIT (Heresy/Skyhorse 2025), a novel about a bond trader who goes through existential crisis. Currently serializing my second novel EUCLID ALONE here.

Other writings in The Metropolitan Review, The Believer, The Cleveland Review of Books, Current Affairs, and Plan A Magazine. NYC

American writer in London - Associate Editor @ The Hinternet - Film Critic @ The Metropolitan Review - General Editor @ You Go to My Head.

Writer

Andrew Bell is a writer and director based in New York who recently launched The Connective Podcast to host unfiltered conversations attempting to make sense of a country that’s lost the plot.

Poet-person.

I’m Savannah "Sav" Huitema, a writer, attorney, and model based in New York City. I serve as Style Critic at the Metropolitan Review, where I write about art, fashion, and culture.

Writer

Nominated for the Eric Hoffer Book Award, twice for the National Book Award and three times for the Pulitzer Prize, J.R. Solonche is the author of more than 50 books of poetry and coauthor of another. He lives in the Hudson Valley.

I like ponies.

Bart Edelman’s latest poetry collection is This Body Is Never at Rest: New and Selected Poems 1993 – 2023. His literary papers are archived in the Special Collections Department of the Donald Axinn Library at Hofstra University.

NY based educator & poet exploring where the everyday meets the intangible \ud83e\udee7

Beth Brown Preston is a poet and novelist. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College and the MFA Writing Program of Goddard College. Her poetry collection is OXYGEN II (Aquarius Press/Willow Books, 2025).