Nikki Giovanni has a thing about words, even a single one — like "needed." "I'm not needed," the beloved poet, drinking coffee at a hotel lounge in midtown Manhattan, insisted during a...

One day, it must have been between 1999 and 2006, I was alone at home in Victory Street, Hamrun when someone knocked on the door. It was the famous composer Charles Camilleri, accompanied by a...

Ex-ambassador of France to Malta, author Daniel Rondeau, was recently honoured with the prestigious Grand Prix du Roman by the esteemed Académie française for his latest novel entitled...

The Rule of Law À La Maltaise is Professor Kevin Aquilina's recent book on quite a topical subject. It consists of several thought provoking writings which the author published over the years,...

Boy meets girl, girl meets boy, and they live happily ever after. But what happens when vegan girl meets carnivore boy? And what happens when vegan girl tries to convert carnivore boy to give up the...

If we had been allowed to watch God create the heavens and the Earth, we probably wouldn't have stuck it out for all six days. The act of creation can be slow and tedious when you're a...

John Grisham explores student loan debt and the sharks that profit from it in his latest novel, "The Rooster Bar." Mark, Todd, Zola and Gordy are students at a mediocre law school that doesn't...

How different was it writing your second book compared to writing your first? When my publisher gave me the go-ahead for this second book, I promised myself I would be better prepared for the...

For anyone who somehow missed out on Marie Kondo's "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up," or who found her de-cluttering style too quick, too cute or too oriented toward a younger set, a Swedish...

Midsea Books has published 'Curtain up!', a substantial volume containing a selection of 176 reviews in full text published by Paul Xuereb during the years (1963-2015) when he was the leading drama...