Domnica Radulescu, who came to the U.S. from Romania in 1983 as a political refugee, has crafted a compelling tale of two friends, one Serbian, one Bosnian, who grew up together in the former...

Batman is a brooding night stalker, grim and remorseless. Also, he's a guy who might break out into "Batusi" on the dance floor. While Superman has barely veered off his flight path over the...

While plenty has been written, fiction and nonfiction, about Haiti's political disgraces, natural disasters, cultural enigmas and entrenched dysfunction, Mischa Berlinski's new novel stands out for...

Spring is almost official, and that means the other season about to start is baseball season. Author Dirk Lammers examines the history of a pitcher's dream to throw a no-hitter in "Baseball's No-Hit...

Parents will be familiar with the scene: an array of children's toys strewn about the whole house including the least likely places such as the kitchen cupboard. Yes indeed, little children and...

The Augustinian Fathers have two convents in Paceville - the St Rita Convent up on the hill and the Our Lady of Good Counsel down the road from the Hilton in the midst of Paceville. The latter,...

A best-selling biography in English about Father Cyril Axelrod has just been published in Maltese, by Horizons. The inspirational story, translated by Fred Bezzina, is an inspiration to humanity....

This year the Spanish-speaking world is paying homage to the Spanish master Miguel de Cervantes on the 400th anniversary of his death. World-known by writing Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes...

Publishing house Horizons is coming out with a series of books on recently dead and even living Maltese persons. This book is the first of such books, all subtitled Bejn Storja u Miti. Others include...

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney was on her way to meet her family for brunch in New York when she had an idea for the opening scene of her debut novel, "The Nest." Sweeney imagined family members "all...