"Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge" (Sarah Crichton Books; Farrar, Straus and Giroux), by Sheila Weller "Star Wars" fans may feel a lump in their throats when Carrie Fisher appears in the finale...

Raymond "Red" Reddington, a man who relishes a challenge, likely would admire how TV's "The Blacklist" took a creative gamble amid the industry's coronavirus-forced production shutdown to end the...

After witnessing the overwhelming popularity of Star Wars, director Francis Ford Coppola told George Lucas he should start his own religion.   Lucas laughed him off, but Coppola may...

I'm a scholar of literature who spends a lot of time thinking about why certain stories continue to be revisited, and what works can be considered classics today. So I'm looking forward to seeing...

The Malta Philharmonic Orchestra (MPO) is thrilled to announce Chamber Fridays, a series of online recitals featuring musicians from Malta's national musical ensemble. Set in poignant locations around...

Madam C.J. Walker may be one of America's most successful "pull yourself up by your own bootstrap" stories, but many have never heard of her. However, that's changing, thanks to the recent release of...

Rarely has a movie's title been so apt as that of "Waves," a film that makes you feel like you've been knocked flat over by a fierce current — only to be rescued by a gentle, soothing flow of...

"Just Watch Me," Dutton, by Jeff Lindsay Riley Wolfe gets his kicks executing spectacular robberies that no one else would even contemplate. His victims are always the super-rich, whom he...

In these weeks of lockdown, during which parents and teachers have had to organise themselves differently to provide resources in Maltese to students, Merlin Publishers have been doing their utmost to...

Anyone tuning into the new TV series "Motherland: Fort Salem" will find a few changes in the America depicted. For one thing, women are in charge of the military. For another, they're all...