What is The Metropolitan Review?

We are a culture and review publication founded by Ross Barkan, Lou Bahet, and David Roberts. We publish book reviews, literary criticism, essays, and reviews of film and television. In a tech-addled, philistine-friendly world, we seek to reinvigorate high culture, and we believe we will. Join us.

If you’d like to write or just argue, drop us a line at editors@metropolitanreview.com.

We accept short stories and novel excerpts under 5,000 words at fiction@metropolitanreview.com.

Visit our website at metropolitanreview.com.


Masthead

The Editors

ROSS BARKAN · Founder & Editor-in-Chief

LOU BAHET · Founder & Executive Editor

DAVID ROBERTS · Founder & Senior Advisor

DJANGO ELLENHORN · Fiction Editor

VANESSA OGLE · Poetry Editor

JASON CHATFIELD · Cartoon Editor

Editorial Board

ELEANOR ANSTRUTHER

WILLIAM DERESIEWICZ

ANNE KADET

PETRA KHASHOGGI

JUSTIN SMITH-RUIU

User's avatar

Subscribe to The Metropolitan Review

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

People

The Metropolitan Review is a books and culture review magazine founded in 2025.
My next novel, Glass Century, will be published in May. 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.
Fiction Editor at The Metropolitan Review
Founder & Executive Editor at The Metropolitan Review