What is The Metropolitan Review?

We are a books and culture magazine founded by Ross Barkan, Lou Bahet, and David Roberts. We publish reviews of recent books, film, television, and the visual arts, as well as new fiction and poetry. Our pages are home to serious, entertaining criticism that doesn’t pull any punches. In a tech-addled, philistine-friendly world, we seek to reinvigorate high culture, and we believe we will.

Our articles regularly appear here and on our website at metropolitanreview.com. We are unique in that we pay our writers the market rates that they deserve. We are actively fundraising for our print publication that will spotlight work from our digital side and bring wider recognition to the dynamic literary community emergent online. We are a New York not-for-profit organization. Please do consider subscribing. And please reach out if you would like to write. We take a passionately writer-first approach, championing under-acknowledged and emerging voices both in our selection of writers and of works under review.

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.

We accept poetry submissions at poetry@metropolitanreview.com.


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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

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The Metropolitan Review is a books and culture review magazine founded in 2025.
Fiction Editor at The Metropolitan Review
My new novel, Glass Century, is out now. 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.
Founder & Executive Editor at The Metropolitan Review