The movie "The Pride of the Yankees" is the kind of Hollywood hokum that makes us feel good. And there's nothing wrong with that - as long as we know life is usually more complicated than a Gary...

The name of President Donald Trump appears only once in professor Jon Lauck's new book about perceptions of the Midwest as "flyover country," and then only in a footnote involving polling in...

May announced Wednesday that he will publish the coffee table book under his own imprint in August. It includes more than 300 photos and a 3-D viewer May designed. May is a lifelong enthusiast of...

Seven years ago, Shantrelle P. Lewis was consumed by the negative images of young, black men being depicted in media as aggressive and dangerous. Most looked nothing like the black men she knew:...

Ace Atkins' novels about Quinn Colson, a former Army Ranger turned sheriff, takes place in Mississippi's rural Tibbehah County, where the largest town is the small Jericho. But Edgar finalist Atkins...

Nelle Harper Lee wrote a novel published in the early 1960s. Her next novel was published more than 50 years later. She had no use for email, Facebook and Twitter (which she considered as ways of...

This is a translation by Jean Paul Borg of the book Sharon and My Mother-in-Law which won the Viareggio Prize in Italy and was translated in 20 languages. Mr Borg says he met the author at the...

Although we are taught not to judge a book by its cover, sometimes we do exactly that at the Notarial Archives. While the content of a volume remains especially important to researchers, the beauty of...

Eight authors from across the globe will be travelling to Malta for this year's edition of the Mediterranean Literature Festival. The event will kick off on Thursday 24 August and will go on until...

Noel Grima   This book has a fascinating background. Its author, the well-known author of such novels as Il-Gagga, Samuraj, etc, as well as books about history such as about...