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All is ready for the 2023 Campus Book Festival

Tuesday, 21 March 2023, 12:20 Last update: about 2 years ago

All is ready for the opening of Kampus Kotba, the tenth edition of the 2023 Campus Book Festival, the National Book Council said. This Festival, organised by the National Book Council (NBC), "is...

NBC announces date and theme of this year’s edition

Sunday, 26 February 2023, 09:10 Last update: about 2 years ago

The National Book Council (NBC) is proud to announce that Kampus Kotba, the 2023 Campus Book Festival, will be held between Wednesday, 22 and Friday, 24 March at the University of Malta...

Book review: Honouring unpretentious hard workers

Sunday, 26 February 2023, 09:05 Last update: about 2 years ago Noel Grima

'Post-war protagonists of Maltese photography' Author: Kevin Casha Publisher: Midsea Books / 2022 Pages: 326   I would like to begin this review by thanking the author...

Book review: When poetry becomes your earthly companion

Sunday, 19 February 2023, 09:15 Last update: about 2 years ago

In September 2022 I had the opportunity of joining a group of people on a tour to Liguria and Tuscany, the latter being considered by many English poets and other renowned authors and musicians, as...

Book review: After the fall

Sunday, 19 February 2023, 09:10 Last update: about 2 years ago Noel Grima

Fallada's penultimate work, Der Alpdruck (Nightmare in Berlin) appeared in the autumn of 1947 but the German publisher's (Aufbau) warm recommendation and sustained international lobbying elicited only...

6 popular Black authors co-write teen romance 'Whiteout'

Monday, 13 February 2023, 10:43 Last update: about 2 years ago Associated Press

Dhonielle Clayton is not just a bestselling author of young adult fiction. She's an organizer, a former teacher and a founder of the grassroots publishing movement We Need Diverse Books. She's also...

Sullivan's warning: Journalists should be on high alert

Wednesday, 8 February 2023, 10:52 Last update: about 2 years ago Associated Press

Margaret Sullivan cringed one day when a former colleague at The Washington Post, critic Carlos Lozada, tweeted with exasperation about books pitched to him as combinations of memoir and...

Reporter's murder shows cost of pursuing the truth

Monday, 6 February 2023, 09:38 Last update: about 2 years ago Associated Press

"In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Murder, a Coverup, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press," by Katherine Corcoran (Bloomsbury) The confluence of corrupt governance, poverty, drug trafficking and...

From letterpress to offset

Sunday, 5 February 2023, 09:36 Last update: about 2 years ago Noel Grima

In the 1970s, punctually every day (except Saturdays) at 9.15pm, an elderly priest (Dun Karm Tonna?) used to leave his house in Siggiewi and drive his old Bedford van towards Blata l-Bajda and...

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