'Full Measure' is realistic on every level
Friday, 17 October 2014, 11:15
Last update: about 13 years ago
T. Jefferson Parker, known for his crime novels, delivers an emotional and gut-wrenching literary departure that's miles away from what his fans and readers would expect in "Full...
Brilliant new biography of Tennessee Williams
Thursday, 16 October 2014, 11:14
Last update: about 13 years ago
When "The Glass Menagerie" opened on Broadway in March 1945, the actress cast as Southern matriarch Amanda Wingfield got so drunk before the show that a bucket was placed in the wings so she could...
Book of NY 'objects' sure to spark debate
Wednesday, 15 October 2014, 11:11
Last update: about 13 years ago
This is a book destined for coffee tables in Tribeca lofts, Upper West Side apartments and Brooklyn townhouses. With stoops. Stoop is object No. 40, in fact, in this book that needs no...
St Margaret’s College gets a substantial book donation
Tuesday, 14 October 2014, 14:54
Last update: about 13 years ago
The National Book Council recently donated a substantial amount of books to St Margaret's College during a short ceremony held in the Cospicua Primary School library attended by the respective heads...
A new dimension in horror...
Tuesday, 14 October 2014, 14:52
Last update: about 13 years ago
Horizons have recently published Anton Grasso's second edition of Mejt (Dizziness). The first edition of this book was published in 1988. This is a revised edition with a new cover...
Sheila E. wants to write more, expand book to film
Sunday, 12 October 2014, 13:26
Last update: about 13 years ago
Days before the release of Sheila E.'s autobiography, news spread that she was once engaged to Prince. The bigger bombshell, however, didn't get nearly as much attention. "Pretty much, I was...
'Paying Guests' filled with romance, sex
Saturday, 11 October 2014, 13:25
Last update: about 13 years ago
Fans of Sarah Waters will feel cloaked in comfy familiarity when they sink into her new novel, "The Paying Guests." The setting is London, 1922. The post-war economy forces upper-class Frances, a...
'Do Fathers Matter?' says something new
Friday, 10 October 2014, 13:24
Last update: about 13 years ago
From the tiniest microbe or fragment of DNA to the origins of the universe, it sometimes feels as if every subject generates a vast tide of scientific studies and that virtually nothing escapes...
Critic & museum director on encounters with art
Thursday, 9 October 2014, 13:20
Last update: about 13 years ago
Stendhal wrote about feeling faint in the presence of great art. Goethe said that merely knowing that a sculpture he admired could be created made him "twice the person" he was. Proust, in an episode...
Bezmozgis novel explores loyalty, betrayal
Wednesday, 8 October 2014, 12:47
Last update: about 13 years ago
"The Betrayers" (Little, Brown and Co.), by David Bezmozgis The betrayals come thick and fast in David Bezmozgis' aptly titled and beautifully written second novel, "The Betrayers." The first...