In 2018 Nicolas Mathieu won the Prix Goncourt, France's most famous literary honour, for this, his second novel. Starting in 1992, it unfolds at two-year intervals, over four summers in a valley...

What do you do when you're stuck in traffic? Fiddle with the car radio? Listen to the banter of DJs or ... study the driver of the car next to you until you get obsessed with her and end up following...

At 97 years of age, one would expect that the life of Albert Ganado has been a very fulfilling life. But after reading this autobiography of sorts one is filled with admiration that one person could...

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The name is fictitious, a pseudonym. In an age of self-promotion, Elena Ferrante keeps her real identity a closely-guarded secret. In 2016, Time magazine included Ferrante among the 100 most...

The writer and composer Anthony Burgess came to live in Malta in 1968. He wrote many of his best books in his home at 168 Main Street in Lija, including the novels MF, Napoleon Symphony and...

On clear nights, when the moon has not risen yet, the sky fills up with so many stars, otherwise invisible when the moon appears. So too in the history of art in these islands, between the twin...

Giacomo Puccini's most melodious work, the opera Turandot, will be presented in Malta on two separate occasions. In an interesting collaboration between the Mediterranean Conference Centre and...

Sooner or later, it will have to happen. The conclave to choose a new pope. Novelists of all hues and colours have been trying to draw up a scenario for the next conclave for many years...

The Malta Philharmonic Orchestra's digital endeavours continue with Chamber Fridays2, a series of online recitals featuring musicians from Malta's national musical ensemble, commencing on February...