Malta is marking the fourth birth centenary of one of the greatest artists of all times – Mattia Preti.   Bank of Valletta is sponsoring a luxury limited edition publication by Midsea...

Catalogue to the exhibition, edited by Bernadine Scicluna, and with essays and reflections by Nicoline Sagona; Joseph Said, Lawrence Pavia, Katya Micallef, Richard England and Nicholas de Piro. This...

Catalogue to the exhibition ‘The Brocktorff Mapmakers. The catalogue comprises a scholarly presentation of 131 maps and plans of the Brocktorff family to whom they are attributed. These are...

Stephanie Coontz is the American author of the book Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage. During her research she came up with some surprising figures as well as alternative points of...

Inżul ix-Xemx by Rita Saliba, the winner of a national competition for teenage literature, was released by Merlin Publishers some months ago.   Teenage literature is a tricky area. What...

A collection of papers and a catalogue of the exhibition “Giovanni Pietro Francesco Agius de Soldanis – an eighteenth century Gozitan, ecclesiastic and scholar” organised by the...

Writing about writing is riddled with pitfalls. Take that sentence, even: Should we reconsider the passive voice? Should we clarify which instance of "writing" we mean as a noun and which as...

L’Homme de Malte by Pierre Dimech, a French author of Maltese origin, has been published in France by Atelier Folfer Editions. In this work, the author retraces his history and his roots, which...

Verging on 95 years of age, John Cremona still manages to overwhelm readers of his latest book of verse, Il-Kantiku tax-Xagħra, with captivating verse written in a luxuriant, even if deceptively...

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”, so goes the ancient English dictum. However, I have always struggled with it and I have always found it difficult to accept it, nonetheless embrace...