The fantastical story by Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland is one of the cornerstones of children's English literature. The rabbit that races against time, Alice who falls into the rabbit hole and...

In 2003 I had been one of the speakers at the launch of Dr Sant's first volume of recollections and autobiography of this name. There were with me at the launch, at what was then called St James...

A society built on the value of life, the promotion of the common good, and reciprocal respect and forgiveness, are some of the themes that Archbishop Charles Jude Scicluna reflects upon in the fifth...

Fabric Chigi, from the important banker family from Siena, began his long career within the Church by being nominated on the recommendation of two cardinals as Inquisitor in Malta (1634...

This is the striking title of J. W. Psaila's seventh publication in Maltese and the first with his plays. No newcomer to this genre he includes in this book three plays whose titles declare their...

Trevor Zahra and I were born on the same day, 16 December 1947; he in his Zejtun home and I in my family's temporary home in Hamrun. Today I live in Zejtun while he lives in Marsascala. Yet...

This remarkable novel is the fourth in the compelling Robinson sequence, which began with Gilead in 2004 and continued with Home (2008) and Lila (2014). Gilead won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction...

Our minds are shaped by the books we read, our character by the people we meet and our spirit by the love we give. I truly believe that culture is the solution to the world, including our islands of...

Charles Xuereb "The most interesting problems facing Maltese people are probably cultural and those related to identity." This succinct judgement by French migratory researcher, Claude Liauzu,...

At 82 years, Achille Mizzi must be the oldest, or one of the oldest, poets in Malta, a number sadly depleted by the recent death of Oliver Friggieri. He started writing poetry at a very early age...