'Inferno' brings insight and humanity to Ebola outbreak
Thursday, 27 April 2017, 15:05
Last update: about 10 years ago
In 2014, Dr. Steven Hatch, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, flew into a Liberian airport in the midst of the largest Ebola outbreak in history, donned...
'I Liked My Life' an impressive debut by Abby Fabiaschi
Wednesday, 26 April 2017, 15:04
Last update: about 10 years ago
The novel "I Liked My Life" begins with Madeline, its main character, assessing a potential new wife for her husband, Brady. It's immediately clear she's dead and speaking from a sort of limbo...
US Sen. Elizabeth Warren launches book tour
Tuesday, 25 April 2017, 15:10
Last update: about 10 years ago
She wasn't in her home state, but U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren couldn't have asked for a friendlier audience to launch her book tour. The Massachusetts Democrat entered and left to warm ovations...
'Conviction' has believable characters, intriguing twists
Tuesday, 25 April 2017, 15:02
Last update: about 10 years ago
Julia Dahl's examination of the myriad communities that exist - sometimes not so harmoniously - in Brooklyn, New York, fuels her third excellent novel featuring freelance reporter Rebekah...
Protecting and preserving industrial heritage
Monday, 24 April 2017, 14:37
Last update: about 10 years ago
Noel Grima
On 1 February 2013 a seminar was organised by the Farsons Foundation in collaboration with the Department of Built Heritage, Faculty for the Built Environment, University of Malta. The timing was...
Ħsiebu Jsuqu
Monday, 24 April 2017, 14:36
Last update: about 10 years ago
Ħsiebu Jsuqu depicts the writer's thoughts that lead him into humanity's conscience. In fact, the sub-title of the book refers to the literary actuality that Oliver Friggieri is maintaining and...
'The Inkblots' documents history of Rorschach test
Saturday, 22 April 2017, 16:11
Last update: about 10 years ago
A bear. A bat. A butterfly. Images seen in Rorschach inkblots reveal the viewer's unconscious mind, including any serious mental disorders. Or do they? Is the Rorschach test a brilliant...
New novel imagines Lincoln amid ghosts after son's death
Friday, 21 April 2017, 16:11
Last update: about 10 years ago
Days after his son Willie's death, Abraham Lincoln returned alone, late at night, to his 11-year-old's crypt. In his new novel, George Saunders takes this historical nugget, gleaned from a...
'High Noon' book draws down on Hollywood blacklist
Thursday, 20 April 2017, 16:09
Last update: about 10 years ago
Years of risking his life to protect his fellow citizens come to this climactic movie moment: The lawman, his gun still hot from a showdown with an outlaw, tosses away his badge, a rejection of the...
Gethers highlights mom's career in 'My Mother's Kitchen'
Wednesday, 19 April 2017, 16:08
Last update: about 10 years ago
In a delightfully moving memoir, Peter Gethers shares entertaining and intimate stories about his mom's celebrated culinary career. "My Mother's Kitchen" details the life of celebrated cook and...