I haven't needed to memorize a phone number since I bought my first cellphone 15 years ago. Now I couldn't recall a single number, not even my mother's (sorry, mom). After reading Nicholas Carr's "The...

In 1883, Texas Ranger William Ray Strong, assisted by the state's famous "hanging judge," Roy Bean, is on the trail of a serial killer who butchers Chinese railroad workers by cutting off their heads...

T. Jefferson Parker, known for his crime novels, delivers an emotional and gut-wrenching literary departure that's miles away from what his fans and readers would expect in "Full...

When "The Glass Menagerie" opened on Broadway in March 1945, the actress cast as Southern matriarch Amanda Wingfield got so drunk before the show that a bucket was placed in the wings so she could...

This is a book destined for coffee tables in Tribeca lofts, Upper West Side apartments and Brooklyn townhouses. With stoops. Stoop is object No. 40, in fact, in this book that needs no...

The National Book Council recently donated a substantial amount of books to St Margaret's College during a short ceremony held in the Cospicua Primary School library attended by the respective heads...

Horizons have recently published Anton Grasso's second edition of Mejt (Dizziness).  The first edition of this book was published in 1988.  This is a revised edition with a new cover...

Days before the release of Sheila E.'s autobiography, news spread that she was once engaged to Prince. The bigger bombshell, however, didn't get nearly as much attention. "Pretty much, I was...

Fans of Sarah Waters will feel cloaked in comfy familiarity when they sink into her new novel, "The Paying Guests." The setting is London, 1922. The post-war economy forces upper-class Frances, a...

From the tiniest microbe or fragment of DNA to the origins of the universe, it sometimes feels as if every subject generates a vast tide of scientific studies and that virtually nothing escapes...