Remembrance and consideration
Tuesday, 17 January 2023, 11:55
Last update: about 2 years ago
The author of the Letter to the Hebrews exhorts: "Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith. Jesus...
‘Ejja nsajru poeżija’
Tuesday, 10 January 2023, 14:22
Last update: about 2 years ago
Trevor Żahra is of course possibly Malta's best-known author. And yet, we think of him often as a children's author, even as an author for adults, but we many times forget that he started out...
Carl Jung on Freud. Picasso and Paracelsus
Tuesday, 10 January 2023, 14:19
Last update: about 2 years ago
Noel Grima
Carl Gustav Jung was born in Switzerland in 1875. He was a psychiatrist and psychoanalyist who founded analytical psychology. His writings have been influential in the fields of psychiatry,...
Naomi Alderman novel 'The Future' scheduled for next autumn
Monday, 9 January 2023, 11:19
Last update: about 2 years ago
Associated Press
Novelist Naomi Alderman is a "what if" kind of writer, as in: What if women were able to release electricity through their fingers, the premise of her acclaimed bestseller "The Power "? For her...
Salvatore Giuffrè in Malta for Confucius book launch
Tuesday, 3 January 2023, 14:15
Last update: about 2 years ago
Sinologist Salvatore Giuffrè will participate in the official launching of L-ANALETTI – KONFUĊJU, which he translated directly from Classical Chinese into...
A small history of the German defeat in WW2
Tuesday, 3 January 2023, 13:19
Last update: about 2 years ago
Noel Grima
Heinrich Theodor Boll is considered as one of Germany's foremost post World War 2 writers. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972. He was born in Cologne in what was still part of...
AC/DC's Brian Johnson writes about his Cinderella lives
Thursday, 29 December 2022, 11:21
Last update: about 2 years ago
Associated Press
Before he began tearing the roof off arenas as lead singer of hard rock icon AC/DC, Brian Johnson was fixing roofs. In his new memoir, the "Hells Bells" singer recounts how he went from being a...
WWII novel sets high bar for historical fiction
Tuesday, 27 December 2022, 14:23
Last update: about 2 years ago
Associated Press
"Cradles of the Reich" by Jennifer Coburn (Sourcebooks Landmark) Gundi, Irma and Hilde all find themselves at a Lebensborn Society house for future mothers who are deemed to be racially fit. Each...
History of movie academy favors facts over melodrama
Monday, 19 December 2022, 06:21
Last update: about 2 years ago
Associated Press
"The Academy and the Award: The Coming of Age of Oscar and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences" by Bruce Davis (Brandeis University Press) Film historians and others digging for a...
Italians and Brits fight it out in Malta
Sunday, 18 December 2022, 11:00
Last update: about 2 years ago
Noel Grima
I approached this book with some scepticism but soon found myself engrossed in the story, to the point that I lost count of the time (and even missed a couple of appointments). For us all, the...