Two Roads for the Literary Critical Elite

Welcome to The Metropolitan Review, where it feels like we’ve existed for a lifetime but it’s only been six months. Today we publish our 100th piece. Isn’t that amazing? Book reviews, essays, fiction, and poetry — at TMR, we’ve got it all, and we’re fast moving toward our goal of reinvigorating literary culture. We’ve got huge plans for the fall, including our debut print issue. In the meantime, during these dog days of summer, enjoy the ongoing brilliance from our contributors, which can be found on this Substack and on our very own website. To survive and thrive, we need paying subscribers, and while we don’t want to impose a paywall, we may need to consider it in the future. For just $80 annually, you can back TMR and be automatically subscribed to receive our print issues. The inaugural print issue will be an extremely limited run, so you will want to be subscribed now. (We do ship internationally!) Remember, too, that if you want to help us out but the $80 isn’t feasible, the $5 m

Welcome to The Metropolitan Review, where it feels like we’ve existed for a lifetime but it’s only been six months. Today we publish our 100th piece. Isn’t that amazing? Book reviews, essays, fiction, and poetry — at TMR, we’ve got it all, and we’re fast moving toward our goal of reinvigorating literary culture. We’ve got huge plans for the fall, including our debut print issue. In the meantime, during these dog days of summer, enjoy the ongoing brilliance from our contributors, which can be found on this Substack and on our very own website. To survive and thrive, we need paying subscribers,