To the world, Harper Lee was aloof to the point of being unknowable, an obsessively private person who spent most of her life avoiding the public gaze despite writing one of the best-selling books...

A young woman has agreed with her faithless husband that it's time for them to separate. For the moment, they intend to keep this agreement a secret from others. But then he goes missing in a...

Pierre u Jean is the Maltese translation from the French of Guy de Maupassant's (1850-1893), naturalist or psycho-realist novel, Pierre et Jean. This novel, published in 1888, the author's fourth...

In his new publication, Cervantes: 400 Years of Visual Silence, Giuseppe Schembri Bonaci unpacks a bold debate on the visual artistic relationship between Malta and Spain, specifically on the...

Dr Francis Zammit Dimech has published a monograph on the role, duties and obligations of the Public Service Broadcaster in Malta. Although there are a number of writings on this subject, this is the...

Novelist Stephen Cox was last seen some two years previously when he vanished to the East. Since then there had been postcards. Then silence. Now his friend Liz has received a strange parcel that...

I thought I had somehow mislaid it but now it miraculously surfaced. I have many times referred to it in my writings but now, having found it again, I could reread it again (and meanwhile, savouring...

Banned Books Week comes amid regular high-profile efforts to remove allegedly controversial or inappropriate reading material from libraries and schools. Nowadays, the small groups of parents who...

In a memoir Anne Heche worked on over the past year, the actor shared candid thoughts on her relationship with Ellen DeGeneres in the late 1990s, when they were among Hollywood's first openly gay...

A great stone bridge built three centuries ago in the heart of the Balkans by a Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, spanning generations, nationalities and creeds, stands witness to the countless...