When Brian Tyree Henry filmed his scenes in "If Beale Street Could Talk," he wept. When he saw the finished film, he wept again. In Barry Jenkin's lyrical adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated...

Longtime New Yorker magazine cartoonist and Vermont resident Edward Koren has released a new book of cartoons spanning about 40 years that poke fun at country and city dwellers and the interactions...

Michael Buble, "love" (Reprise Records) When people claim they are stepping away from it all to spend more time with their family, it's usually a front. When Michael Buble said he'd do the same,...

"The Patch" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), by John McPhee Eighty-seven and 33. That's the age of John McPhee and the number of books he's written, counting his latest, "The Patch." One could...

Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, "Upside Down Flowers" (Fantasy Records) Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness saturates "Upside Down Flowers" with nostalgia about family and youth in Southern...

2019 kicked off brightly for Maltese novelist James Vella-Bardon, when his stirring debut 'The Sheriff's Catch' won the respected eBook Cover Design Award on Wednesday 9 January. This monthly award is...

This is, one might say, Ugo Mifsud Bonnici's political autobiography from his beginnings as the son of Il-Gross to his first political experiences in the 1960s, to the years in Opposition, then for...

What are your memories of the journey you've made over the last year or so?   It's been a hell of a ride. Paul Pennington, who I'd met through my job, set up Maltese Funny Business and...

Merlin Publishers has just published your third novel, Amina. Who is Amina?  Amina is a 15-year-old orphan who lives in a children's home. She has a passion for mathematics and has just...

If there’s one line that stands the test of time in Steven Spielberg’s 1993 classic “Jurassic Park,” it’s probably Jeff Goldblum’s exclamation, “Your...