"The Idiot," Elif Batuman's beautifully written first novel, is a wry, funny coming-of-age story set at the dawn of email among a group of Harvard brainiacs too nerdy and self-involved to even think...

  The year is 2064 and Europe has been rent asunder by political divisions and cataclysmic climate change. Air travel and global telecommunications networks are long gone, and borders have...

Gonsalvo Borg Buttigieg has just died. His soul is standing on the 77,777th step of the staircase to heaven. Waiting. Waiting and arguing with a chap who is calling himself "The Guardian of the...

The former president and first lady have signed with Penguin Random House, the publisher announced Tuesday. Financial terms were not disclosed for the books, which several publishers had competed for,...

Walking into Professor Joe Friggieri's room at the University of Malta, I was amazed by the number of wooden shelves packed with hundreds of books. Those which did not fit on a shelf were put on the...

A new book about Archbishop Emeritus Joseph Mercieca with the theme Ragħaj għal kull staġun (A shepherd for all seasons) and authored by Charles Buttigieg, was issued recently on the...

A replica bronze bust of Grand Master Manoel de Vilhena was returned to its rightful place on the main gate of Fort Manoel earlier this week during a ceremonial event held on site.  The...

Argentine poet and writer Jorge Luis Borges once said that he "always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library". If you are a book lover, you will love the idea that Abigail Azzopardi came up...

Authors Corrine Annette Zahra and Sarah Springham will be holding book signing sessions this month Corrine Annette Zahra will be holding signing sessions for her books 'Escape' and 'The Legend of...

I have often reviewed books by this prolific writer - Ghall-Imhabba ta' Lesbjana (1997), Miss Wilma (2011), Lavberds (2012), Barnet l-Ispizjar (2012), and Ossessjoni (2013). This is his latest...