It was All Souls' Day 1755 and the blind priest had just intoned the Kyrie Eleison in the great cathedral of Seville, the great temple that had been a mosque during the time of the Muslims, when the...

The National Book Council is proud to announce that NYT bestselling author Jeff VanderMeer will be one of the special guests at the 2025 edition of the Malta Book Festival - this year taking...

Sometimes our most fragile moments create the ideal conditions for creativity to take root and flourish. And indeed ix-xita tinżel rasha 'l isfel, Francesco Grech's second poetry collection...

Born in 1959, to Jewish parents, Robert Greene is an American author of books on strategy, power and seduction. He has written seven international bestsellers, including The 48 Laws of Power, The...

Born into a world of hyperconnectivity and AI, Generation Alpha faces neurological and emotional realities no curriculum was designed for. In her new book, Generation Alpha in the Classroom: New...

The UK-based publisher Comma Press, in collaboration with the National Book Council, is on the lookout for short stories about Valletta for an upcoming anthology: The Book of...

When I joined Il-Hajja, the Church's Maltese language daily paper in July 1972, John Inguanez was the news editor, or at least acted as one, because things were rather fluid there. The paper had...

Joe Friggieri has been writing and publishing literature for almost six decades. He has always seemed to enjoy shorter forms of writing. Most of his poetry is short, and includes volumes of the...

What happens when the freckles on a girl's body suddenly begin to glow with strange green lights? The doors open to a fantastic universe poised to carve out its own unique place in Maltese literature....

Prof. Raphael Vella One could argue that another sociological study that asserts that education and the arts are inherently political is unnecessary. Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron's...