Before launching into a slew of brazen zingers, comedian Joan Rivers often used her signature catchphrase, "Can we talk?" Nine months after Rivers' sudden death, her daughter, Melissa Rivers, is...

Born into one of America's best-known families, Mariel Hemingway grew up with the advantages of sharing the name of her grandfather Ernest Hemingway and the burden of growing up in a family at least...

When the British artist Grayson Perry was selected in 2003 for the Turner Prize, one of Europe's most prestigious art awards, he showed up at the ceremony wearing a dress. That very public display of...

For a country that's been described as an intelligence black hole, North Korea sure has a lot of recent books that try to show daily life there. A search for the new "North Korea Confidential" at...

Steve Martini's latest book to feature attorney Paul Madriani begins with a seemingly easy case, but quickly turns deadly. Alex Ives needs Madriani's help when he's accused of vehicular...

John Lescroart has written a terrific courtroom mystery as the main series characters take a backseat to defense attorney Rebecca Hardy, daughter of regular Dismas, who takes on a case involving Greg...

Each of his literary outings has been a huge hit, both with critics but also - especially - with readers who even when not fans of Maltese literature flocked to his inimitable style of evocative,...

St George is one of the most revered saints in the Maltese islands, and the legend of St George slaying the dragon has been recounted to generation after generation. Yet, to date there was no local...

Picture books are great fun in themselves, but when they also help to encourage children towards a practical skill, then the book becomes twice as desirable. And which parent of young children hasn't...

At the dawn of the 20th century the Parisian district of Montmartre was still largely rural, a hillside village dotted with windmills, vineyards and tumbledown shacks. There, a ragtag band of...