In September 2022 I had the opportunity of joining a group of people on a tour to Liguria and Tuscany, the latter being considered by many English poets and other renowned authors and musicians, as...

Fallada's penultimate work, Der Alpdruck (Nightmare in Berlin) appeared in the autumn of 1947 but the German publisher's (Aufbau) warm recommendation and sustained international lobbying elicited only...

Dhonielle Clayton is not just a bestselling author of young adult fiction. She's an organizer, a former teacher and a founder of the grassroots publishing movement We Need Diverse Books. She's also...

Margaret Sullivan cringed one day when a former colleague at The Washington Post, critic Carlos Lozada, tweeted with exasperation about books pitched to him as combinations of memoir and...

"In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Murder, a Coverup, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press," by Katherine Corcoran (Bloomsbury) The confluence of corrupt governance, poverty, drug trafficking and...

In the 1970s, punctually every day (except Saturdays) at 9.15pm, an elderly priest (Dun Karm Tonna?) used to leave his house in Siggiewi and drive his old Bedford van towards Blata l-Bajda and...

Dissociative disorders, formally known as multiple personalities, involve the affected person experiencing a disconnection and lack of continiuty between thoughts. The disorder usually devolops after...

Dissociative disorders, formally known as multiple personalities, involve the affected person experiencing a disconnection and lack of continiuty between thoughts. The disorder usually devolops...

First published in Arabic in Lebanon in 1998 and now published in translation, this book has been awarded the PEN Translates award for novels in translation. The book opens when the narrator gets...

Żita had just finished her exams. Her father wanted her to spend the summer working for him but Żita had other plans. She wanted to spend summer lazing around and going places with her best...