Tag Archives: Literary
Mukiwa
by Peter Godwin“From time to time a book comes out of Africa that is so good it grips American readers by their hearts. This should be…
Moon Tiger
by Penelope Lively“Emotionally, Moon Tiger is kaleidoscopic, deeply satisfying. The all too brief encounter between Claudia and Tom will surely rate as one of the most…
More Pricks Than Kicks
by Samuel Beckett“It is in the vaudeville aspect that his exuberance gleams, and it is his exuberance – even the exuberance of his despair – that…
Mistress to an Age
by J. Christopher Herold“Mr. Herold’s full-bodied biography is clear-eyed, intelligent, and written with abundant wit and zest.” –The Atlantic Monthly
Molloy
by Samuel Beckett‘samuel Beckett is one of the great playwrights of our age. . . . As a novelist he is just as important. His novels, like all important works of art, have the stamp of the inevitable on them: they had to be written and, though we suffer reading them, we…
Moloch
by Henry Miller“A work of extraordinary political consciousness, predicated upon the longing savagely to corrode, or better yet, explode the foundations of a world of wage slavery and commercial empires. . . . Like Notes from Underground, it is a novel ambitious of being more than a novel.” —Peter Anderson, Boston Review…
The Monk
by Matthew Lewis“The Monk is one of the authentic prodigies of English fiction, a book in spite of its various crudenesses so good that even after a century and a half it is possible to consider it unhistorically.” –John Berryman, from the Introduction…
The Minus Man
by Lew McCreary‘deliciously satisfying page-by-page . . . a challenging, disturbing, and deeply memorable novel.” –Anne Rice, The New York Times Book Review
Miracle of the Rose
by Jean Genet“Genet can use a brutal phraseology that makes prison life specific and immediate. Yet through his singular sensibility, these elements are transmuted into something fragile, rare, beautiful.” –The New York Times…
The Miracle
by John L'HeureuxWitty, profound, and deeply moving, The Miracle explores the way God meddles in our lives . . . and to what end. The Miracle is John L’Heureux’s finest,…
