Tag Archives: Literary

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'Heureux

Witty, 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,…

The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez

by John Rechy

“A gritty picture of life on the cusp . . . vividly rendered.”—Kirkus Reviews

Misconception

by Ryan Boudinot

“What starts out as a fairly standard story of teenagers taking themselves too seriously ends up being a funny and finely hewn examination of…

Miss Burma

by Charmaine Craig

Set against the vibrant backdrop of Burma from the 1940s to the 1960s, Miss Burma is a powerful and epic novel that follows one…

The Mezzanine

by Nicholson Baker

“A seriously funny book”—Salman Rushdie Nicholson Baker’s stunning and highly influential first novel, a witty and boundlessly inventive homage to the profound, neglected details…

The Middle of Nowhere

by Bob Sloan

“Sloan knows New York and New Yorkers right down to their socks, and his novels . . . hum with the brutal vitality of…