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Book Review: ‘The Broken King,’ by Michael Thomas

By Thomas Chatterton Williams
Aug. 26, 2025


In 2006, Michael Thomas cannonballed into the literary world seemingly out of nowhere with an arresting and ambitious debut, “Man Gone Down.” The autobiographical novel landed him on the cover of The New York Times Book Review and eventually secured the prestigious and unusually lucrative International Dublin Literary Award, beating out a slew of better-known authors from Junot Díaz to Philip Roth. And then, just as abruptly as he’d arrived, Thomas all but disappeared.

Over the nearly two decades since, I have often wondered what became of him and what he might do next. Now, at last, there is an answer in the form of an unbearably bleak yet entirely mesmerizing memoir, “The Broken King.” It is a continuation, or a revision, of his novel, one that explains the author’s absence but raises many more questions.

This relentless account of abuse (racial, sexual, masochistic), alcoholism, neurod...

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