Noora Niasari's delicately moving " Shayda " puts the viewer in the shoes of an Iranian woman in Australia living in a women's shelter with her 6-year-old daughter. The violence happens before we...

David Bowie's Major Tom, sitting in his tin can. Elton John's Rocket Man, missing Earth and his wife. Matt Damon in "The Martian," left behind to starve. Matthew McConaughey in "Interstellar," weeping...

Nuri Bilge Ceylan makes long films, by movie standards, but short ones by Russian literature standards. There may be no filmmaker more consciously working in a novelistic tradition. The Turkish...

Sally Rooney will have a new novel out this fall, "Intermezzo," a story of love, family and grief centered around two brothers. Farrar, Straus and Giroux announced Thursday that the novel, the...

Shakira, the boundary-breaking Colombian performer, has been remarkably consistent since beginning her career in the early '90s. Without fail, she toured, released albums, won awards, woven global,...

As the old saying goes, there are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who like their movies with a giant evil ape swinging a vertebrae like a lasso while riding a kaiju controlled by a crystal,...

Oprah Winfrey's latest book club selection is an author and ghost writer's life story, chronicling her journey from prison and drug addiction to collaborating with the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond...

The current state of the Maltese language and its future outlook are undoubtedly among the most hotly debated topics in the physical and virtual arenas of Malta today. But aside from the discussions...

There are many points where the life of Oriana Fallaci comes to resemble that of Daphne Caruana Galizia, except of course the fact that Daphne was murdered whereas Fallaci died a natural death, of...

The Do-Re-Mi musical adventure moves on to the introduction of the character La (saxophone), who is Oh! so smooth and always the charmer. La comes in varied sizes and voices for major impact and...