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McConaughey better than ever in 'Dallas'

Saturday, 16 November 2013, 12:57 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

The best parts of "Dallas Buyers Club" are of Matthew McConaughey, as HIV-positive Texas man Ron Woodroof, bucking like a bull in a Dallas hospital he refuses to let hold...

Kooky 'Free Birds' fun, but flat

Saturday, 16 November 2013, 12:46 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Every year about this time, millions of turkeys are fattened up so American households can chow them down. But in "Free Birds," two brave turkeys make it their mission to travel back in time...

'Dallas 1963' paints pix of city twisted by anger

Friday, 15 November 2013, 12:44 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

"Dallas 1963" (Twelve), by Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis   "Dallas 1963" by Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis provides a chilling portrait of a city terrified by...

Book tracks Iranian-American family's year in Iran

Thursday, 14 November 2013, 12:43 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

"The Ministry of Guidance Invites You to Not Stay: An American Family in Iran" (Doubleday), by Hooman Majd   Hooman Majd's book about spending a year in Iran with his family...

Europeana’s ‘big canvas’ at the National Book Fest inaugurated

Wednesday, 13 November 2013, 18:23 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

Europeana’s stand was inaugurated by Hon. Stefan Buontempo, Parliamentary Secretary for Research, Innovation, Youth and Sport at the official launch of the National Book Fest, last Tuesday, 12th...

Book celebrates StoryCorps' 10-year anniversary

Wednesday, 13 November 2013, 12:41 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

"Ties That Bind: Stories of Love & Gratitude From the First Ten Years of StoryCorps" (The Penguin Press), by Dave Isay   Ten years ago this month a small sound studio opened in...

Author traces harrowing US nuclear near misses

Tuesday, 12 November 2013, 12:30 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

"Command and Control" (The Penguin Press), by Eric Schlosser   Three days after John. F. Kennedy's inauguration, a B-52 went into an uncontrolled spin above North Carolina,...

'The Goldfinch' is a tale of art and loss

Friday, 8 November 2013, 12:00 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

"The Goldfinch" (Little, Brown & Co.), by Donna Tartt   This absorbing novel begins when an ordinary excursion to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City by 13-year-old...

'Swingland' offers peek into kinky sex underworld

Thursday, 7 November 2013, 11:59 Last update: about 13 years ago Malta Independent

"Swingland: Between the Sheets of the Secretive, Sometimes Messy, but Always Adventurous Swinging Lifestyle" (Touchstone), by Daniel Stern   Sexual healing comes in all forms. In...

Characters are well drawn in new Pelecanos novel

Wednesday, 6 November 2013, 11:58 Last update: about 14 years ago Malta Independent

"The Double" (Little, Brown and Co.), by George Pelecanos   Spero Lucas joined the Marines, got shipped off to Iraq, fought house-to-house in Fallujah and came home in one piece to...

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