The Metropolitan Review
The Metropolitan Review, Ross Barkan, Udith Dematagoda, Philip Traylen, Joshua Zeitler, Mitchell Galloway, Adam Fleming Petty, Emma Burger, Caio Major, Chris Jesu Lee, Colin Dodds, ARX-Han, Sam Jennings, Ben Sims, Raina Lipsitz, Nate West, Jonathan Russell Clark, Tanner Stening, Tom Sleigh, HEAVY BUFFA, Bart EdelmanThe Metropolitan Review is a books and culture review magazine founded in 2025.
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The Case for Booksmaxxing
Gustave Moreau, The Triumph of Alexander the Great, c. 1885, Oil on canvas
We live in an unprecedented moment for booksmaxxing. I don’t know how I could otherwise make my way through authors like Hannah Arendt and Jean Baudrillard — the la...
Life on a Tube Filled With Seamen
Nuclear-Powered U.S. Navy Submarine, 2023, Photograph, Getty Images
Military life has long served as reliable fodder for American literature, which should come as no surprise: something about stories of men from all corners of the country...
Easy Writer
A scene from the film Jesus' Son, based on the Denis Johnson short story collection of the same name.
One of the most irritating things we learn in Ted Geltner’s new biography of Denis Johnson, Flagrant, Self-Destructive Gestures, is just...
Art Act
When I was a kid, writing and drawing were joined in my imagination as a single magical scribe-like activity.
Body by Cake
I got one half of the two-part equation from each of my parents. My father was an editor and writer and my mother w...
Submerged Populations vs. Representation
Josef Albers, Variant/Adobe, Gray Turns Violet, 1958, Oil on Masonite
Two short story collections by trans men were released in 2025, CRAWL by Max Delsohn and Realistic Fiction by Anton Solomonik. (A disclosure: Max Delsohn is a friend of...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
The Metropolitan Review is a books and culture review magazine founded in 2025.
My new novel, Colossus, is out now. I'm also the author of Glass Century, Editor-in-Chief of The Metropolitan Review, and a columnist for New York Magazine.
Writer, academic and General Editor of Hyperidean Press.
I'm a writer/philosopher from the UK. Bylines in all respected publications. Rage and misfortune. Kafka, Austen, Nietzsche. https://buymeacoffee.com/philiptraylen
Writer based in Alma, MI.
Mitchell Galloway is a writer from Alabama, currently living in Florida. His writing appears in Forever Magazine, The Panacea Review, R&R (Relegation Books), and Subtropics.
Writer in Michigan. Work in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Commonweal, many other places.
Emma Burger is the author of two novels, Little Rich Kids (2025) and Spaghetti for Starving Girls (2021). You can find her work in Hobart, X-R-A-Y Lit, and Rejection Letters. She is an essays editor at Zona Motel.
Trans dude, MFA student, husband, dog dad, morning person.
Other writings in The Metropolitan Review, The Believer, The Cleveland Review of Books, Current Affairs, and Plan A Magazine. NYC
Colin Dodds is an award-winning author and filmmaker, whose works include The Reign of the Anti-Santas, The 6th Finger of Tommy the Goose, and Forget This Good Thing, a literary and philosophical experience for the iPhone and Android.
Novelist (INCEL) and essayist (DecentralizedFiction.com).
American writer in London - Associate Editor @ The Hinternet - Film Critic @ The Metropolitan Review - General Editor @ You Go to My Head.
If you found me via my hilarious internet presence, do subscribe below for free and depressing literary fiction
Raina Lipsitz is the author of The Rise of a New Left. Her work has appeared in The Appeal, The Atlantic, The Nation, and The New Republic.
Writer, author of My Father's Diet, translator of God knows how many books at this point under the entire name Adrian Nathan West.
His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Esquire, LA Times, and numerous others. He is also the reviews editor for Punk Eek.
Poet-person.
An opera newsletter by AAA elite-level opera expert Rob Benvie
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.
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