The Metropolitan Review
The Metropolitan Review, Martin Dolan, Baylina Pu, The Literarian Gazette, Racheal Fest, Adam Pearson, Sam Jennings, Alexander Nazaryan, J.R. Solonche, Max Bolen, Mo_Diggs, Brighton Grace, Vanessa Ogle, Nina Deval, Francesca Newton, Luke McGowan-Arnold, Bart Schaneman, Benjamin Clabault, Jacob Russell, Eric Bies, Michelle ChadwellThe Metropolitan Review is a books and culture review magazine founded in 2025.
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Deposing the Mad Tsar
Oskar Laske, Ship of Fools, 1922, Oil on canvas
My father’s partner died in April. A chest infection became pneumonia and took her with merciful speed. It might have been shockingly fast had it not been long presaged by a cough that sounde...
Is Another Civil War Inevitable?
Protesters clash in ICE in Minneapolis. Photo: Getty Images
I spent a month traveling all over the country interviewing people about America’s 250th anniversary. My plan was to write something about what is, in my view, one of the most ful...
Call for Submissions
We’re approaching the two-year anniversary of our founding here at The Metropolitan Review, as good a time as any to take stock and look toward the future. This past year has been a huge success. We launched our first print issue, featuring...
“The Mind at Night”
View on Overschie in Moonlight, 1872. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
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The Mind at Night
At three in the morning,
t...
The Typo Generation Is Damaging Literature
Corrections and Notes by Balzac, 1999, Photograph, Getty Images
Very little is certain in our tumultuous times, but one thing I can always rely on is being let down by a popular or acclaimed piece of contemporary art. There are various rea...
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The Metropolitan Review is a books and culture review magazine founded in 2025.
freelance writer | dolanmartin.github.io
currently writing a novel ★ essays & more on substack ★ yale ’23 📌 baylinapu.com
Illuminating dispatches on a society in despair.
Upstate writer and critic.
Commentary, criticism, fiction, and other prose. With works in The Metropolitan Review and Magazine Non-Grata.
American writer in London - Associate Editor @ The Hinternet - Film Critic @ The Metropolitan Review - General Editor @ You Go to My Head.
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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 write about movies and politics.
I write about politics, tech, culture and legacy media.
The Substack of Brighton Grace: a 25-year-old writer from Sydney, currently based on Gadigal land. I'll post occasional ramblings/waffles about all things literature/film/music/art/politics as well as the odd poem/short story here.
TMR poetry editor
unfortunately interested in literature
Performing for strangers. Formerly Tribune Magazine, sometimes Vashti Media. Writing in The Guardian, The Nation, The Baffler etc.
Luke is an African-American writer of the surrealist variety from Rockford, Illinois, based in Philadelphia. He writes about American subject formation, subcultures (on and off the internet), Black people and social movements.
Bart Schaneman lives in Seoul, where he works as a journalist. He’s also the author of the novel The Pot Job (Trident Press).
Benjamin Clabault is a writer and teacher from Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He lives with his wife and son in Lake Placid, Florida, and his work appears in After Dinner Conversation, Fiction on the Web, Literary Traveler, and elsewhere.
Writer and journalist living in Beirut. Memoir, essays and observations around travel, fatherhood and being a perpetual foreigner. Bylines in The Paris Review, Narratively, UnHerd.
Founding editor of Orange County Review of Books. https://ocreviewofbooks.org
Michelle Chadwell is a Filipino-American writer and editor based in Philadelphia.
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