A year after Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize for literature and was cited for her mastery of the modern short story, her publisher has collected 24 of her stories published over the past two...

Denis Johnson, winner of the National Book Award for his Vietnam-era opus "Tree of Smoke," has jumped genres again in "The Laughing Monsters," a new thriller set in Africa. Johnson has done...

Author Jacqueline Woodson addressed Daniel Handler's (aka "Lemony Snicket") racist joke, Friday, with an unflinching response in The New York Times. Handler previously made offhanded comments...

Booker Prize-winning Nigerian writer Ben Okri has won the uncoveted Bad Sex in Fiction Award, a prize for erotic literary encounters that push all the wrong buttons. The writer took the...

10,000 new books are to be distributed among 100 classrooms in schools around Malta and Gozo. This, as part of the Enriching Classroom Libraries programme being organised by the National Literacy...

The story goes that while St Paul was on his way to Rome to face charges he was shipwrecked on Malta at St Paul’s Islands in St Paul’s Bay. The truth is that no hard evidence backs the...

Well, I am quite familiar with the Razzett L'Antik in Qormi as I have been there several times to various events. One dark winter's night I finished up in the dry moat opposite, to my utter amazement....

Shopping, romance, bucket lists, inspiration and information: All of these things and more can be found in books for travelers that are out this season in time for the holidays. In addition...

Katha Pollitt, the columnist for "The Nation," the feminist essayist, poet and critic, has been frustrating some on the left and angering some on the right for years now. But she's surprised at...

Author Val McDermid melds the political thriller with the police procedural for an intense novel that gives equal attention to each genre. McDermid pulls together a complicated tale of war and...