Tag Archives: Literary

The Memory of Love

by Aminatta Forna

From the award-winning author of The Devil That Danced on the Water and Ancestor Stones comes The Memory of Love, a beautiful and masterfully…

Mercier and Camier

by Samuel Beckett

“A comedy of high style, terser and, I think, funnier than any of his other novels.” —A. Alvarez, The Observer (London)

The Merciful Women

by Federico Andahazi

“[The Merciful Women]’s playful, satiric, erotic, sometimes savage, sometimes slapstick account of one man’s case of severe literary envy is something completely different, and…

Mary Shelley

by Miranda Seymour

“A thoughtfully considered, lifelike portrait of a complex, often misunderstood character . . . sensitive and intelligent.” –Merle Rubin, Los Angeles Times

A Mass for Arras

by Andrzej Szczypiorski

“Gripping and persuasive. . . . About the forces now raging in the former Yugoslavia and Soviet Union, Mr. Szczypiorski seems to have shown…

The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

“I fell in love with it. . . . I reread it often . . . for me it’s one of those magical books…

Matterhorn

by Karl Marlantes

A big, powerful saga of men in combat, written over the course of thirty-five years by a highly decorated Vietnam veteran.

May Contain Nuts

by John O'Farrell

In the tradition of Tom Perrotta’s Little Children and Nick Hornby comes a hilarious look at the perils of parenthood, from one of England‘s…

Me and You

by Niccolò Ammaniti

“Immensely engaging . . . Both tender and emotionally arresting, Ammaniti’s novel is unforgettable.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Meantime

by Katharine Noel

A beautifully wrought, emotionally riveting novel about two fiercely independent sisters drawn together in the wake of life-changing events as they reimagine their futures…