At her heaviest, Roxane Gay weighed 577 pounds. In her powerful, at times harrowing, new memoir, "Hunger," Gay explains how she got that way and what it's like to live "trapped in a cage" of her own...

Eleanor Oliphant has her life together, or so she would like you to believe. She works in an office, she binge drinks alone every weekend in her apartment and wears gloves indoors when her eczema...

A solar eclipse attracts devoted followers who travel to the best sites to witness the phenomenon, aided by online forums, maps and social media. These eclipse chasers, who relish "celestial...

In "Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon," author Jeffrey Kluger takes readers inside the capsule of the Apollo 8 mission, the first one to journey to the moon and back,...

A new book offering a fresh angle on the events of the Great Siege of Malta is to gain funding for publication by crowdfunding on Maltese site, ZAAR.com.mt. Although there have been many accounts...

In this new book, 'One Day, When I am Younger', Jacob Burak examines in his witty and lucid way the motives and decision-making processes that we overlook when routinely reflecting upon our...

On Christmas Eve 1675, Dr Giacomo Cassia was called in to examine an eleven-year old girl who was running a very high temperature. The girl, Anna, died on 28 December. She was the first victim of...

Author Amanda Hickie was living in Canada when severe acute respiratory syndrome - SARS - hit Toronto in 2003. The panicked response to that outbreak, spread first by travelers returning from Asia and...

Having the ability to puzzle through the complexities of a budding romance is a useful skill. Things get a bit more complicated when everyone else in your life also struggles with his or her own...

Dennis Lehane's crime fiction has highlighted some of the most insightful looks at parenting ("Gone Baby Gone"), mental health ("Shutter Island"), loss of innocence ("Mystic River") and the life of...