The Metropolitan Review
The Metropolitan Review, Jonathan Russell Clark, Ben Sims, ARX-Han, Henry Begler, Sam Jennings, Ross Barkan, Udith Dematagoda, Mitchell Galloway, HEAVY BUFFA, Madeleine Adams, Joshua Zeitler, Nate West, Colin Dodds, Tom Sleigh, Audrey Clare Farley, Emma Burger, Raina LipsitzThe Metropolitan Review is a books and culture review magazine founded in 2025.
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The Next Metropolitan Review Party is Almost Here
Photo: Wyatt McNamara
Free next week? Wish there was another great party to attend? The Metropolitan Review has you covered. We’re back at KGB’s legendary theater in the East Village, featuring a selection of great writers who’ve appeared...
Cannibalism, Pederasty, and the Next Upgrade
Barbara Davis, Jeffrey Epstein, and Cathy Davis at a Fundraiser, Photograph, 1982, Getty Images
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, is a cop out.
Rhetorically, it’s clear, easy to agree with, and safe to pronounce in even...
Normie Transgression
Franz Marc, The Unfortunate Land of Tyrol, 1913, Oil on canvas
In one week, we will hold the next Metropolitan Review reading and party. You absolutely will not want to miss it. We’ll feature, among others, Emma Collins, Harold Rogers, Ste...
"Splitting the Moon" and "If I Were Meant to Live"
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Splitting the Moon
The hour overripe, promising sweetness
that stings the tongue,
God split the moon in two.
Miraculous how cle...
Melancholy Is a Duty We Ignore
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I always imagined I would write something about Edmund White after his death. What I never imagined was the death itself. It came on the evening of June 3, 2025. I found out the morning after, l...
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The Metropolitan Review is a books and culture review magazine founded in 2025.
His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Esquire, LA Times, and numerous others. He is also the reviews editor for Punk Eek.
Short stories once a month. All free—consider a Paid Subscription if you like my work.
Novelist (INCEL) and essayist (DecentralizedFiction.com).
writer in LA
American writer in London - Associate Editor @ The Hinternet - Film Critic @ The Metropolitan Review.
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.
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.
An opera newsletter by Rob Benvie, writer-human of Nova Scotia
Writer based in Alma, MI.
Writer, author of My Father's Diet, translator of God knows how many books at this point under the entire name Adrian Nathan West.
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.
PhD, author, lit agent, @NarrativelyAcademy instructor. Writing on the cultural history of Pentecost, ghosts, and may-being, or what pulses through people, texts, and institutions, even those seeming like stone. Always reading John Caputo.
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 The Republic of Letters. She is an essays editor at Zona Motel.
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.
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