Mars Review of Books

The Mars Review of Books is the world’s biggest little book review.

We’ve published dazzling and much talked-about work from Tao Lin, Magdalene Taylor, Sean Thor Conroe, Carlos Dengler, Default Friend, and many more—without sacrificing our scrappiness, freedom to say what we please, or our commitment to the elegant, intelligent long-form writing.

Today, legacy publications find themselves on a race to the bottom in order to succeed in the politicized, clickbait culture of the internet age. Meanwhile, independent writers outside that system are relegated to ephemeral media like Twitter and podcasts. The MRB sets out to bridge these two worlds—taking leave out the worst. It has since become the canonical place to find sense-making on subjects of the public interest and the most interesting place for stylish criticism on literature and art.

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