The Metropolitan Review
The Metropolitan Review, Samuél Lopez-Barrantes, York Underwood, Maria Viola Albano, Brad Phillips, Derek Neal, Denise S. Robbins, Sam Jennings, Scott Spires, Michael Preedy, Manuel M. Novillo, Savannah Huitema, sophie paquette, Gus Mitchell, Geoffrey Mak, Grant De Micco, M.D. Bennett, Ilana Weinstein, Ben Bar, Max Bolen, Jason BakerThe Metropolitan Review is a books and culture review magazine founded in 2025.
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A World Without People
Will Self. Photo: Getty Images
A series of minor events — a dinner party, a holiday in La Spezia, a poorly attended funeral — make up two years in the middling lives of a middle-aged, middle-class set of London friends, retold through diff...
The Latin American Americans
Julio Cortázar during a political meeting. Photo: Getty Images
When Peruvian Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa died at 89 in Lima in 2025, many Latin American commentators in mainstream and social media struck a similar note: he was a grea...
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"Nail Polish" and "Sitting"
Portrait of Linda Nochlin and Richard Pommern. Philip Pearlstein, Brooklyn Museum collection.
Please enjoy these two poems by Jason Baker that examine loss through the poignant imagery of everyday objects that carry so much more than meet...
A Modern Age Failure
Christopher Nolan, The Odyssey, 2026
There is a scene, early in Jean-Luc Godard’s 1963 masterpiece Le Mépris, that surely contains the ultimate cinematic statement on Homer’s Odyssey. An American producer has asked the film’s screenwriter...
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The Metropolitan Review is a books and culture review magazine founded in 2025.
a novelist writing tall tales, essays & melodies from Paris
York Underwood is a writer. He lives in Reykjavik, Iceland with his family.
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I’m the author of Essays & Fictions. I’m an artist who makes mostly paintings. My work has appeared in The Paris Review, Playboy, Vice Magazine, Granta, Purple Fashion Magazine and others. I design t-shirts. I’m a husband, a son, and a friend.
I write about literature, film, culture...and whatever else I'm interested in.
Author of The Unmapping (novel published June 2025). Writes on Substack about noticing things. Writing in Metropolitan Review, Romanticon, Republic of Letters, Beyond the Bookshelf, and more. www.denisesrobbins.com
American writer in London - Associate Editor @ The Hinternet - Film Critic @ The Metropolitan Review - General Editor @ You Go to My Head.
I'm a novelist, linguist, editor, and geographer. You can find my work at my Substack, Lakefront Review of Books, and at my blog, Lakefront Linguist.
Author of Making Sentences, a newsletter for making sense of the written world. Subscribe for a clear way into great books. New posts every week with references from Shakespeare to The Simpsons.
Manuel M. Novillo escribe ensayos, reflexiones e historias. Su último libro es el poemario “Un invierno fuera de casa” (2023). Además enseña derecho y teoría política. Vive en Tucumán, Argentina.
Style Critic at the Metropolitan Review, where I write about art, fashion, and culture.
nyc. email me [email protected] <3
prosing and poesing, here and elsewhere /// Stack: Magic Against Death /// plays @forgery.collective
I'm the author of Mean Boys (Bloomsbury, 2024). I've written for The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Artforum, The Guardian. I co-edited Writing on Raving (O/R Books, 2025).
Fiction and nonfiction writer
M. D. Bennett is a freelance writer and editor at Breakwater Editorial and publisher at Pickle Fork Press.
Ilana Weinstein is the author of When I Became Light (2023), a poetry collection chronicling her own coming of age in her favorite city. You can connect with her via email at [email protected] or at @poemsbyilana on Instagram.
Ben Bar is a New York City-raised project manager, personal trainer, singer-songwriter, and chessboxer living in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
Read my blog, The World Outside Our Window: maxbolen.substack.com
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