Archive - The Metropolitan Review

The Town Where Journeys End

On 'The Inland Sea'

16 hrs ago •

William Lambert

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The Colossus of Brooklyn

On Thomas Wolfe and Infinite Loneliness

Mar 24 •

Aaron Lake Smith

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The Last Contract

William T. Vollmann's Battle to Publish an American Epic

Mar 21 •

Alexander Sorondo

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Ross Douthat's Sandbox Universe

On 'Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious'

Mar 19 •

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The Moral Authority of a Body

On Kate Manne's 'Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia'

Mar 17 •

Justin Smith-Ruiu

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'Ten Years of Useless Labor'

On Danzy Senza's 'Colored Television'

Mar 14 •

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On the Art (and Life) of Joan Mitchell

Mar 12 •

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Toward a Sordid Utopia?

On Becca Rothfeld's 'All Things Are Too Small'

Mar 10 •

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Stalking the Trillion-Footed Digital Beast

On Udith Dematagoda's 'Agonist'

Mar 9 •

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It Wasn't Real, But It Was Beautiful

On the WWE Holiday Tour Live and Gabe Habash's 'Stephen Florida'

Mar 7 •

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Torture, Survivorship, and the Lens of Youth

On RaMell Ross' 'Nickel Boys'

Mar 5 •

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Trying To Save Emilia Pérez From Itself

On Jacques Audiard's 'Emilia Pérez'

Mar 4 •

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