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A Solitary Life in History
Manhattan Skyline on 9/11, 2001, Photograph, Getty Images
On October 15th, we’re holding our big autumn bash, and we want you to be there. We’ve sold more than 100 tickets but a few are still available. Want to party with The Metropolitan...
Beauty, Terror, and Towering Ambition
Evelyn De Morgan, Night and Sleep, 1878, Oil on canvas
We’ve got a thrilling announcement! The Metropolitan Review’s fall soiree will be held on October 15th at The Bench (49 Elizabeth Street, 6th Floor) in Manhattan. The lineup is stacked...
The Pig
Pink Pig on Brown Hay, Photograph, 2021, Unsplash
This was the last year Henry would kill the pig. Henry told me so herself, standing on the porch, looking left from the door to the field. It was the first thing any of the Laurensons said...
The Failure of the Pandemic Novel
Pandemic Halloween Display, 2020, Photograph, Getty Images
Within weeks of the lockdown orders — days, even — there were think pieces. The writers among us were frighteningly eager to diagnose the neuroses that the Covid pandemic, which ha...
The Greatest Action Movie of the 2020s
Na Hong-jin, Hope, 2026
No beating around the bush here, since the film itself doesn’t: Na Hong-jin’s Hope is extraordinary. Is it also ridiculous, bloated, and a bit overlong? Sure, yes, who cares. Is it trolling its audience with its las...
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The Metropolitan Review is a books and culture review magazine founded in 2025.
I write about politics, tech, culture and legacy media.
Writer of books, sometimes movies. New book of poems "Elegy for Pangaea” forthcoming 9/15, available to pre-order now at link below:
[email protected] / FKA Klaus Zynski / Bylines in Apocalypse Confidential, Metropolitan Review, Muleskinner Journal, Republic of Letters, Magazine Non Grata, Bookends Review
celebrating (?) pop psychosis
Bart Schaneman lives in Seoul, where he works as a journalist. He’s also the author of the novel The Pot Job (Trident Press).
American writer in London - Associate Editor @ The Hinternet - Film Critic @ The Metropolitan Review - General Editor @ You Go to My Head.
Thomas Peermohamed Lambert is a writer, like everyone else on here. His first novel, Shibboleth, is published by Europa Editions.
Illuminating dispatches on a society in despair.
Writer
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.
freelance writer | dolanmartin.github.io
Style Critic at the Metropolitan Review, where I write about art, fashion, and culture.
Reader, Writer
Author of the novels THE AUDACITY & RIOTS I HAVE KNOWN. Bylines in NYTBR, The Guardian, New Yorker, LA Times, Sewanee Review. Contributing Editor at BOMB, resident of the Hudson Valley.
A writer and poet from Cobourg, Ontario, currently based in Gatineau, Quebec. My work explores the intersections of politics, memory, and place across journalism, creative writing, and academic research.
I write about the history of virtue, literature, and agriculture.
Julia M. Klein, a cultural reporter and critic in Philadelphia, writes for The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times and other publications.
Upstate writer and critic.
Youmna Melhem Chamieh is a French‑Lebanese writer and editor. Her stories and essays have appeared in outlets including Harper's Magazine, Zoetrope, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and the Financial Times Magazine.
Poet.
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