The walls and shelves inside William Shatner's office are covered with the kinds of memorabilia you'd expect from someone who's served for over 50 years as a pop-culture icon. There are framed...

ky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) is back in "Shopaholic to the Rescue," and she's on a mission. The latest addition to this light-hearted series by Sophie Kinsella finds Becky, with friends and family,...

The hall at the top floor of the Inquisitor's Palace in Birgu was packed with members of the public (see photo) recently during a talk by George Cini about Strait Street in Valletta. Mr Cini has just...

Steve Ebejer is not your average time traveller. His is an uncontrollable power, which means he can find himself sucked out of the present and thrown into another time and place at any moment. And...

I feel rather awkward writing this as I have penned the foreword for it and spoke at its launch. But then, where Rene is involved, I have long had a sort of paternal attitude, a rather laid-back...

If the nature of humans is to inquire into the world around them, then the way this inquiry is conducted is revealing in that it can say something about the character or worth of the person. The...

Gus Murphy was looking forward to retirement after a distinguished career as a Long Island policeman, but when his son dropped dead of an undiagnosed heart defect during a pickup basketball game,...

In his posthumously published "When Breath Becomes Air," Paul Kalanithi gets straight to the sudden turning point in his life: the day the Stanford neurosurgery chief resident looked at a scan showing...

Bill Bryson has pulled off quite a trick in his decades of travel writing. With every book, he manages to make readers wish they could go for a walk with him, while he secretly wants nothing more than...

The lands, waters and atmosphere of our planet are under tremendous stress from the appetites and endeavors of more than 7 billion people, and such issues often make for grim reading. But...