What is The Metropolitan Review?

The Metropolitan Review is one of the premier new literary and culture publications in the United States. Founded by Ross Barkan and Lou Bahet, we publish reviews of books, film, television, and the visual arts alongside new fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, rare reprints, and style coverage. 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 appear here on Substack and on our independent site. We publish a print journal twice annually and hold regular readings and parties in New York City. A 501(c)(3) nonprofit, we take a passionately writer-first approach, championing under-acknowledged and emerging voices both in our selection of writers and of works under review. We’ve been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Vox, Page Six, Air Mail, Breaker, the Village Voice, and the Columbia Journalism Review.

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

We accept fiction submissions at fiction@metropolitanreview.com.

We accept poetry submissions at poetry@metropolitanreview.com.

MASTHEAD

ROSS BARKAN · Founder & Editor-in-Chief

LOU BAHET · Founder & Executive Editor

DJANGO ELLENHORN · Senior Editor, Fiction

VANESSA OGLE · Senior Editor, Poetry

JASON CHATFIELD · Cartoon Editor

CALLY FIEDOREK · Assistant Editor

SARAH WECK · Assistant Editor

LUKE SULLIVAN · Assistant Editor

LILYANA TARQUINIO · Writing Fellow

LARA EJZAK · Writing Fellow

KYLIE DONOVAN · Writing Fellow