Books Archive: M

Sándor Márai

• Casanova in Bolzano (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004)

Jamie Weisman, M.D.

• As I Live and Breathe, Notes of a Patient-doctor (North Point Press)

Jerry Avorn, MD

• Powerful Medicines: The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs (Vintage, 2005)

Lewis MacAdams

• Birth of the Cool: Beat, Bebop and the American Avant Garde (The Free Press, 2001)

Ian MacDonald

• Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties (Chicago Review, 2007)

Nancy MacDonell

• In the Know: The Classic Guide to Being Cultured and Cool (Penguin, 2007)

Pat MacEnulty

• The Language of Sharks (Serpent's Tail, 2004)

Barry MacSweeney

• Wolf Tongue: Selected Poems 1965-2000 (Bloodaxe Books, 2003)

Steve Macek

• Urban Nightmares: The Media, The Right, and the Moral Panic Over the City (University of Minnesota Press, 2006)

Matt Madden

• 99 Ways to Tell a Story: Exercises in Style (Chamberlain Bros., 2005)

Brenda Maddox

• Freud's Wizard: Ernest Jones and the Transformation of Psychoanalysis (Da Capo, 2007)

Mike Magnuson

• Lummox: The Evolution of Man (Harper Collins, 2002)

Layne Maheu

• Song of the Crow (Unbridled Books, 2006)

Norman Mailer

• The Castle in the Forest (Random House, 2007)

Derek Malcolm

• A Century of Films (Palgrave Books, 2001)

Paul Malmont

• Feature: Readers' Delight: 2006 in Books
• The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril (Simon & Schuster, 2006)

Bill C. Malone

• Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers: Southern Culture and the Roots of Country Music (University of Georgia Press, 2003)

Kate Maloy

• A Stone Bridge North (CounterPoint Press, 2002)

Evan Mandery

• Dreaming of Gwen Stefani (Ig Publishing, 2007)

Valerio Massimo Manfredi

• Tyrant (Macmillan (US) / Pan Macmillan (AU), 2005)

Alberto Manguel

• A Reading Diary (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004)

William J. Mann

• Behind the Screen: How Gays and Lesbians Shaped Hollywood 1910-1969 (Penguin USA, 2002)

Kate Manning

• Whitegirl (Dial Press, 2002)

Thomas Manss

• Ordnung & Eccentricity (Die Gestalten Verlag, 2002)

Sarfraz Manzoor

• Greetings From Bury Park (Vintage, 2008)

Diane Mapes

• Single State of the Union: Single Women Speak Out on Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Happiness (Seal, 2007)

Peter Maravelis

• San Francisco Noir (Akashic Books, 2005)

Glenn P. Marcel

• Chasing Elvis (The Invisible College Press, 2004)

Ben Marcus

• Notable American Women (Vintage Contemporaries, 2002)

Greil Marcus

• Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan At the Crossroads (PublicAffairs, 2005)
• The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice (Picador, 2007)
• Feature: Live Fast, Die Young, or Get Off the Stage

Curtis Marez

• Drug Wars: The Political Economy of Narcotics (University of Minnesota Press, 2004)

Matt Marinovich

• Strange Skies: A Novel (P.S.) (Harper Perennial, 2007)

Kyriacos C. Markides

• Gifts of the Desert: The Forgotten Path of Christian Spirituality (Doubleday, 2007)

David Markson

• Epitaph for a Tramp and Epitaph for a Dead Beat: The Harry Fannin Novels (Shoemaker and Hoard, 2006)
• This Is Not a Novel (Counterpoint Press, 2001)

Ann Marlowe

• The Book of Trouble (Harcourt, 2006)

Justin Marozzi

• Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the World (Da Capo, 2006)

Christine L. Marran

• Poison Woman: Figuring Female Transgression in Modern Japanese Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 2007)

Dave Marsh

• Born To Run by Eric Meola

Yann Martel

• Life of Pi: A Novel (Harcourt, Inc., 2002)

Andy Martin

• Stealing the Wave: The Epic Struggle Between Ken Bradshaw and Mark Foo (Bloomsbury USA, 2007)

Justin Martin

• Nader: Crusader, Spoiler, Icon (Perseus Publishing, 2002)

Steve Martin

• Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years by Michael Palin
• Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life (Scribner, 2007)

Tony Martin

• Lolly Scramble: A Memoir of Little Consequence (Pan Macmillan Australia, 2005)

Valerie Martin

• Trespass (Nan A. Talese, 2007)

Michael Martone

• The Blue Guide to Indiana (Fiction Collective 2, 2001)

Mark Maske

• War Without Death: A Year of Extreme Competition in Pro Football's NFC East (Penguin, 2007)

Daniel Mason

• News: 'Far' character captivates author

David Mason

• Ludlow (Red Hen Press, 2007)

Louis P. Masur

• Autumn Glory (Hill and Wang, 2003)

Peter Matthiessen

• The Birds of Heaven: Travels With Cranes (North Point Press, 2001)

Armistead Maupin

• Michael Tolliver Lives (HarperCollins, 2007)

Elisabeth Kraus, Carolin Auer and Warren Maurer

• Simulacrum America: The Usa and the Popularmedia (european Studies in America Literature and Culture) (Camden House)

James Mawdsley

• The Iron Road: A Stand for Truth and Democracy in Burma (North Point Press, 2002)

Simon Mawer

• The Fall (Little, Brown & Co., 2003)

Frances Mayes

• A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveller (Broadway Books, 2006)

Edited by Nina Damino and Michael Mazière

• The Undercut Reader: Critical Writings on Artists' Film and Video (Wallflower Press, 2002)

Cris Mazza

• Girl Beside Him (Fiction Collective Two, Florida State University)

Margaret Mazzantini

• Don't Move (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2004)

Cormac McCarthy

• The Road (Knopf, 2006)
• The Road [Oprah's Book Club Selection] (Knopf, 2006)

  PopMatters Pick

  

  Oprah loves the father-son journey of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel and has made it the newest pick in the influential Oprah's Book Club.

   
• No Country for Old Men (Vintage (reprint), 2007)

Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy

• The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation Since 1917 (Stone Bridge Press)

Karen McCarthy

• Kin: New Fiction By Black and Asian Women (Serpent's Tail, 2004)

Ryu Murakami, translated by Ralph McCarthy

• In the Miso Soup (Penguin, 2006)

Susan McCarthy

• Becoming a Tiger: How Baby Animals Learn to Live in the Wild (HarperCollins, 2004)

Stephen McCauley

• True Enough (Granta Books, 2003)

Barr McClellan

• Blood, Money & Power: How LBJ Killed JFK (Hannover House, 2003)

Derek McCormack

• Grab Bag (Akashic Books, 2004)

David McCullough

• 1776: The Illustrated Edition (Simon & Schuster, 2007)

  Featured Article

  

  It’s one thing to simply read Washington’s words as they are related through the eyes and pen of an intermediary like McCullough, but to hold in your hands a faithful recreation of his original letter, to follow the loops and valleys of his script handwriting -- this experience significantly personalizes the history.

   
• John Adams (Simon & Schuster (reissue ed.), 2008)

Val McDermid

• The Grave Tattoo by Val McDermid

Nick McDonell

• Twelve (Grove, 1969)

Evelyn McDonnell

• Column: Little Punk Babies

Jimmy McDonough

• The Ghastly One. the Sex-gore Netherworld of Filmmaker Andy Milligan (Acapella Books, 2001)
• Shakey: Neil Young's Biography (Random House, 2002)

Ian McEwan

• Saturday (Doubleday, 2005)
• On Chesil Beach (Nan A. Talese, 2007)

Todd McEwen

• Who Sleeps With Katz (Granta Books, 2003)

Andrew McGahan

• Underground (Allen & Unwin Australia)

Patrick McGilligan

• Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (ReganBooks, 2003)
• Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only: The Life of America's First Black Filmmaker (Harper, 2007)

Colin McGinn

• Shakespeare the Thinker by A.D. Nuttall

Darren McGrady

• News: Princess Di's personal chef shares recipes and recollections

Alister McGrath

• The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World (Galilee Trade, 2006)
• The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World (Doubleday, 2004)

Jay McInerney

• The Good Life (Knopf, 2006)

Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean

• Mirrormask: The Illustrated Film Script of the Motion Picture from the Jim Henson Company (William Morrow, 2005)

Bill McKibben

• Enough: Staying Human in An Engineered Age (Henry Holt, 2003)

Devin McKinney

• Magic Circles: The Beatles in Dream and History (Harvard University Press, 2004)

Emma McLaughlin

• Dedication (Atria, 2007)

Tim McLoughlin

• Heart of the Old Country (Akashic Books, 2001)

Frank McLynn

• Richard and John: Kings at War (Da Capo, 2007)

  Featured Article

  

  McLynn has a keen eye not only for history, but for storytelling and the importance of artfulness in writing. This is everything a historical biography should be.

   

Alison McMahan

• Alice Guy BlachÉ: Lost Visionary of the Cinema (Continuum, 2002)

Juliet McMains

• Feature: Permission to Follow: Interview with Juliet McMains

Nan McNab

• Body Bizarre, Body Beautiful (Simon and Schuster, 2001)

John McPhee

• The Founding Fish (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002)

McSweeney's

• Wholphin No. 1: Dvd Magazine of Unseen Things (March 2006, $22.95)

Ian Mcewan

• Column: The Sins of the Sister

Marion Meade

• Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2004)

Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan

• So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004)

Suketu Mehta

• Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (Vintage Departures, 2005)

Eva Mekler

• The Polish Woman (Bridge Works, 2007)

Askold Melnyczuk

• The House of Widows: A Novel (Graywolf, 2008)

Eva Menasse

• Vienna (Phoenix; Reprint edition, 2007)

Joe Meno

• The Boy Detective Fails (Akashic Books, 2006)
• How the Hula Girl Sings (Akashic Books, 2005)
• Tender As Hellfire (Akashic, 2007)

Eric Meola

• Born To Run by Eric Meola

Michelle Mercer

• Footprints: The Life and Work of Wayne Shorter (Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2004)

Jed Mercurio

• Bodies (Jonathan Cape (UK); Random House/Vintage (AUS), 1969)

Martin Meredith

• Our Votes, Our Guns: Robert Mugabe and the Tragedy of Zimbabwe (Public Affairs, 2002)

Fatima Mernissi

• Feature: Nine Wives

Corey Mesler

• We Are Billion Year Old Carbon: A Tribal-love-rock-novel Set in the Sixties on An Outpost Planet Called Memphis (Livingston Press, 2005)

Edited by Robert Klanten, Hendrik Helige, and Birga Meyer

• 72dpi-anime (Die Gestalten Verlag)

John Meyer

• Heartbreaker: A Memoir of Judy Garland (Kensington Publishing Corporation/Citadel, 2006)

Stephenie Meyer

• News: Stephenie Meyer's vampire novels were the dawning of a career

Mian Mian

• Candy (Little, Brown & Company, 2003)

Jillian Michaels

• Winning By Losing: Drop the Weight, Change Your Life (HarperCollins, 2006)

Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden

• Baltimore: Or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire (Spectra, 2007)

Barry Miles

• The Beatles Diary (Omnibus Press)

Candice Millard

• News: River of dreams (and nightmares)

Frank Miller

• Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol. 2

Sue Miller

• The Senator's Wife (Knopf, 2008)

Lydia Millet

• Oh Pure and Radiant Heart (Soft Skull Press, 2005)

Mil Millington

• A Certain Chemistry (Villard, 2004)

Giles Milton

• Edward Trencom's Nose: A Novel of History, Dark Intrigue and Cheese (St Martin's Press [US] / Pan Macmillan [AU], 2007)

Joe Milutis

• Ether: The Nothing That Connects Everything (University of Minnesota Press, 2006)

Steven Mintz

• Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004)

Sabina MaglioccoUniversity Press of Mississippi

• Neo-pagan Sacred Art and Altars (by Sabina MaglioccoUniversity Press of Mississippi, 2001)

David Mitchell

• Black Swan Green (Random House, 2006)

Jill Corral and Lisa Miya-Jervis

• Young Wives' Tales: New Adventures in Love and Partnership (Seal Press)

Miyuki Miyabe

• The Devil's Whisper (Kodansha International, 2007)

Dr. Sharon Moalem with Jonathan Prince

• Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (William Morrow, 2007)

Rutu Modan

• Exit Wounds (Drawn and Quarterly, 2007)

John Moe

• Conservatize Me: How I Tried to Become a Righty with the Help of Richard Nixon, Sean Hannity, Toby Keith, and Beef Jerky (William Morrow, 2006)

Shannon Moffet

• The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science by No

Simon Sebag Montefiore

• Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Vintage, 2005)

Mayra Montero

• Dancing to 'Almendra' (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007)

Rick Moody

• The Black Veil: A Memoir With Digressions (Little Brown & Company, 2002)
• Right Livelihoods: 3 Novellas (Little, Brown & Company, 2007)
• News: 'Diviners' author Rick Moody chills the notion he wrote for revenge

Michael Moorcock

• The Cornelius Quartet (Four Walls Eight Windows, 2001)

Christopher Moore

• You Suck: A Love Story (William Morrow, 2007)
• A Dirty Job (William Morrow, 2006)

Perry Moore

• Hero (Hyperion, 2007)

R.P. Moore

• The Black & White Book (Pocket Books, 2001)

Wendy Moore

• The Knife Man: The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, Father of Modern Surgery (Broadway Books, 2005)

Esther Morgan

• The Silence Living in Houses (Bloodaxe Books, 2005)

Dennis Morris

• Destroy: The Sex Pistols 1977 (Creation Books, 2002)

Dick Morris

• Off With Their Heads: Traitors, Crooks and Obstructionists in American Politics, Media and Business (Regan Books, 2003)
• Power Plays: Win or Lose -- How History's Great Political Leaders Play the Game (Regan Books, 2002)

Meaghan Morris, Siu Leung Li, Stephen Chan Ching-kiu (editors)

• Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema (Duke University Press, 2006)

R.N. Morris

• The Gentle Axe (Penguin, 2007)

Susan Morrison [editor]

• Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary: Reflections by Women Writers (HarperCollins, 2008)

Rodney Mullen with Sean Mortimer

• The Mutt: How to Skateboard Without Killing Yourself (Regan Books, 2004)

Andrew Morton

• Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography (St. Martin's, 2008)

Timothy Morton

• Ecology Without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics (Harvard University Press, 2007)

Katherine Mosby

• The Season of Lillian Dawes (Harper Collins, 2002)

Walter Mosely

• Feature: Hardboiled to Hardcore: Interview with Walter Mosley

Eva S. Moskowitz

• In Therapy We Trust: America's Obsessions With Self-fulfillment (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001)

Walter Mosley

• Fearless Jones (Little, Brown and Company, 2001)
• The Man in My Basement (Little, Brown and Company, 2004)
• A Red Death (Serpent's Tail, 2004)

Dow Mossman

• Column: One Hit Wonder - The Stone Reader

Harry Mount

• Carpe Diem: Put a Little Latin in Your Life (Hyperion, 2007)

Manuel Muñoz

• The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue (Algonquin, 2007)

Irvin Muchnick

• Wrestling Babylon: Piledriving Tales of Drugs, Sex, Death, and Scandal (ECW Press, 2007)

Andrew Mueller

• I Wouldn't Start From Here: A Misguided Tour of the Early 20th Century (Picador Australia, 2007)

Karin Muller

• Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa (Rodale Books, 2005)

Abd Al-Rahman Munif

• Endings (Interlink, 2007)

Haruki Murakami

• After Dark (Knopf, 2007)
• After Dark (Knopf, 2007)
• News: 'Gatsby' the gold standard for Japanese author Haruki Murakami

Alejandro Murguia

• This War Called Love (City Lights Publishers, 2002)

Yannick Murphy

• Signed, Mata Hari: A Novel (Little, Brown and Company, 2007)

Michael Murray

• A Jacques Barzun Reader: Selections from His Works (Harper Collins, 2001)

John Murry

• A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies (HarperCollins, 2003)

Jon J. Muth

• M: A Graphic Novel Based on the Film by Fritz Lang (Abrams, 2008)

Mitch Myers

• The Boy Who Cried Freebird: Rock and Roll Fables and Sonic Storytelling (HarperCollins, 2007)

Eileen Myles

• Cool for You (Soft Skull Press, 2000)

Jennifer Fields [Garp's mother?]

• Crossing Brooklyn Ferry: A Novel (Perennial, 1969)