The Metropolitan Review

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

My new novel, Glass Century, is out now. I'm the Editor-in-Chief of The Metropolitan Review, a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine, and a columnist for New York Magazine.

New Yorker Cartoonist & Comedian in NYC. Dog lover. Former President of National Cartoonists Society, Artist for Sam Harris Waking Up app. \ud83d\udcda NEW BOOK OUT NOW!

Blake Nelson's many novels include GIRL, RECOVERY ROAD and PARANOID PARK (adapted to film by Gus Van Sant). He's also written for The New York Times, Sassy, Details and Conde Nast Traveler. New novel: THE CITY WANTS YOU ALONE.

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.

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Writing in NYC

Canadian novelist, poet, and essayist based in Vietnam. Contributor: Salmagundi Magazine

TMR poetry editor

Founder & Executive Editor at The Metropolitan Review

American Writer in London/Poetry Editor at The Hinternet/Film Critic at The Metropolitan Review.

is striving to attain the seventh degree of concentration

Ken Baumann is a writer who lives in New Mexico. https://kenbaumann.com

2025-26 Steinbeck Fellow, MFA from UMich, bowl cut lover

Fiction Editor at The Metropolitan Review

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Clive James knock-off.

Author of “The Flightless Years” & “Trojan Horses: Voices from the Opioid Crisis”. JlSmithWriter.com

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Max Vadukul is a former staff photographer for the New Yorker and he has long standing relationships with Italian Vogue, Egoïste, Rolling Stone, and W Magazine. He is also a longtime collaborator to Yohji Yamamoto.

Donna Rifkind is a book critic and the author of The Sun and Her Stars: Salka Viertel and Hitler's Exiles in the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Jenna Breiter is a writer and visual artist living in Brooklyn, NY.

Annie Levin is a New York City-based arts reporter, essayist, and fiction writer. She writes on the arts, culture, labor, politics, and everything in-between.

A writer and graduate student in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures based in Vienna, Austria.

Gay Talese is one of the most storied figures in American journalism. He is credited as a pioneer of the New Journalism movement and is the author of Thy Neighbor’s Wife and The Kingdom and the Power. He is a former reporter for The New York Times.