There are few people who can say they have been on the company's payroll for decades. Lillian Ross is one of those individuals. She began her career at The New Yorker in 1945 as a reporter for "The...

Stephen King has always addressed his "Constant Readers" in prefaces or afterwords to his books. He likes to share what inspired him or what he was thinking about when he wrote it. But with the...

You don't make it to age 95 without seeing a lot of stuff. Or in the case of Roger Angell, writing it. Having delivered his memoir nearly a decade ago ("Let Me Finish," published in 2006), Angell...

The Malta Tourism Authority’s investment earlier this summer in the United States book market has started to pay off as the new thriller launched by author Chris Kuzneski includes a number of...

Horizons Communications has published another book written by Salv Sammut, Xbihat fuq it-Tila (Figures in a Landscape). The title instantly implies an element of symbolism and metaphor of imagined...

There's a scene in "Truth," James Vanderbilt's crisp, absorbing new film about the doomed 2004 CBS story on then-president George W. Bush and his National Guard service, where execs are doing...

Laurent Ropa The historicity of Maltese seafaring knows its origins from the earliest of times; whether exploring, pirateering or indeed migrating in search of brighter days. The great migratory...

'Horizons' have just published Jacqueline Mizzi's first novel in the Maltese language 'Esperjenza Unika, Love,'.  This novel is mostly aimed at adolescents. 'Esperjenza Unika, Love' is a...

The Malta Independent meets with author of best-seller Sliema Wives Gerard James Borg, to get the full details of his upcoming book – Madliena Married Men. After the success of his first...

It seems that Maltese life moves strictly to an effective ding dong sound. It is a reality reflected in all aspects of Maltese society, as if it cannot escape the temptation to go in twos or end up...