Novel removed from independent stores' best-seller list
Wednesday, 13 September 2017, 12:04
Last update: about 10 years ago
A fantasy novel removed from a New York Times best-seller list because of suspicious sales has been pulled from a chart compiled by the American Booksellers Association. The association announced...
Did 'Thelma & Louise' move the needle for female-led films?
Tuesday, 12 September 2017, 12:15
Last update: about 10 years ago
When Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon clasped hands, stepped on the gas and flew over the canyon ridge in that memorable ending to "Thelma & Louise," many in Hollywood believed they were launching...
Julia Keller tackles heroin in 24-hour crisis
Tuesday, 12 September 2017, 12:03
Last update: about 10 years ago
An ongoing theme in Julia Keller's superior series about Raythune County prosecutor Bell Elkins is how these West Virginia residents maneuver when jobs are scarce but drugs have overrun the area....
Release of Shortlist of National Book Prize 2017
Monday, 11 September 2017, 15:03
Last update: about 10 years ago
The National Book Council announces that the adjudication board of the 2017 edition of National Book Prize and Terramaxka Prize (for books published in 2016) has selected and communicated the...
Beyond the creaking reeds
Monday, 11 September 2017, 15:01
Last update: about 10 years ago
A poet is essentially a dreamer and many of his dreams thrive on hope, as his spirit floats restlessly all over, mostly in a metaphysical dimension of an idealism often shattered by grim...
The priest with two lives
Monday, 11 September 2017, 14:39
Last update: about 10 years ago
Noel Grima
Horizons started its series of books about contemporary Maltese persons with the book about Dom Mintoff -which it subtitled Bejn storja u miti (Between history and myths). In the case of Mintoff, this...
In 'Patti Cake$,' hip-hop dreams in New Jersey
Saturday, 9 September 2017, 16:29
Last update: about 10 years ago
The Sundance sensation "Patti Cake$" may flow with formulaic beats but it's got spirit for miles (eight of them, at least) and features one of the best mother-daughter relationships of the...
Rob Reid's 'After On' is intriguing story
Saturday, 9 September 2017, 16:14
Last update: about 10 years ago
Author Rob Reid examines the world of social networking and how intrusive it can become in our daily lives in his latest sci-fi endeavor, "After On." A network called Phluttr seems harmless at...
Forbidden Soviet-era music on X-ray snapshots
Saturday, 9 September 2017, 11:38
Last update: about 10 years ago
An exhibition describing a unique chapter in the history of Soviet culture - bootleg music recordings made on used X-ray film - has opened in Moscow. From the late 1940s to the early 1960s,...