Shadows in Penumbra
Monday, 20 June 2016, 14:22
Last update: about 11 years ago
Vincent Vella Shadows in Penumbra is Lillian Sciberras' latest publication. Better known for her poetry (Kessidra: Versi taż-Żmien Maħrub) and short stories (Happenstance: Tales of...
Not necessarily so…
Monday, 20 June 2016, 14:21
Last update: about 11 years ago
Philip Farrugia Randon I have known Alex Mizzi and his father Lawrence for many years but I never knew Alex was also interested in writing like his well-known father. So I was...
Boundary-busting country from Robert Ellis
Sunday, 19 June 2016, 16:53
Last update: about 11 years ago
Texas singer-songwriter Robert Ellis doesn't test the boundaries of country music so much as bowl them over, like a lovesick ex-convict fueled by a 12-pack driving his pickup truck into a row of...
Alan Furst's 'A Hero of France' lacks intensity
Sunday, 19 June 2016, 15:44
Last update: about 11 years ago
In Alan Furst's new novel, "A Hero of France," the setting is German-occupied France in 1941. The proud tricolor nation had fallen to the Nazi invasion the previous year and a fledgling resistance had...
The groove's still the thing for Paul Simon
Saturday, 18 June 2016, 16:51
Last update: about 11 years ago
No '60s folkie has written more great music for dancing than Paul Simon, and at 74 he still wants us to feel the beat. "Stranger to Stranger" showcases Rhymin' Paul's polyrhythms in new, exotic...
Author challenges outlook on dating in 'Available'
Saturday, 18 June 2016, 15:42
Last update: about 11 years ago
Matteson Perry is a screenwriter and host of the monthly Moth StorySLAM in Los Angeles. Perry had his heart crushed by the woman he thought he was going to marry, and he coped with the devastation by...
Train faithfully, needlessly cover 'Led Zeppelin II'
Friday, 17 June 2016, 16:50
Last update: about 11 years ago
Train's "Does Led Zeppelin II" is a faithful, needless cover of the British band's 1969 classic. If you walked into a bar and the band played Led Zeppelin like Train does, you might do a double...
Michael Grandage goes from theater to film with 'Genius'
Friday, 17 June 2016, 16:03
Last update: about 11 years ago
Michael Grandage, the noted theater director, has made his first movie. And it's about another world of the arts entirely - books. "Genius" is a biopic about literary editor Max Perkins and his...
'Before the Fall' by Noah Hawley
Friday, 17 June 2016, 15:41
Last update: about 11 years ago
At first blush, "Before the Fall" appears to be on track to be a typical action-packed thriller wrapped around the horrific crash of a private jet. But author Noah Hawley soon veers his highly...