The Whitney Review of New Writing is an independent journal of literary criticism based in New York City. Each issue features interviews, essays, poetry, and more than seventy short-format reviews—a laboratory for sharp, pithy writing that experiments with new modes of criticism. At once a place of discovery, guiding readers toward their next book, it also stands as a record of the zeitgeist, connecting a culture of reading to interdisciplinary perspectives in art, design, performance, music, nightlife, and fashion. The criticism engages writing in radically different formats, from major houses and micro presses to advertising copy and spoken-word performance, offering both support and context for the literary ecosystem.

Previous contributors include Dennis Cooper, Mary Gaitskill, Claudia Rankine, Alissa Bennett, Honey Dijon, K8 Hardy, Rhea Dillon, Diamond Stingily, Hedi El Kholti, Natasha Stagg, Rayne Fisher-Quann, Samuel R. Delany, E. Jane, Maya Martinez, Grace Byron, Tao Lin, and many others.