"A Prayer Journal" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), by Flannery O'Connor   Flannery O'Connor's "A Prayer Journal" is a moving glimpse of a young writer seeking to...

When Alex Gibney set out to make a movie about cyclist Lance Armstrong's 2009 Tour de France comeback, the documentarian admits he bought into the hype: The man who'd cheated death was coming...

Early last century, Juan Mamo wrote the Ulied in-Nanna Venut fl-Amerika, which, with its blunt and iconoclastic prose, risqué jokes and graphic descriptions of a low-life Malta venturing out of...

Comic book movies are increasingly, like Sandra Bullock in "Gravity," lost in space.   Following the summer's glumly bombastic "Man of Steel," which added a heavy...

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One of Andrew Lincoln's favorite moments from "Walking Dead" came during his first season on the show.   Here was the British actor shooting his way through a foreboding urban...

M.I.A, "Matangi" (Interscope)   Named after a ghetto Hindu goddess, M.I.A.'s fourth proper album pops with a relentless pounce and is filled with all the paradoxical imagery...

Listening to Luscious Jackson's four records from the '90s is like a night out hitting the clubs in New York City: a rock riff here, reggae grooves there, some sugary pop, and plenty of low...

On the screen, Chris Hemsworth battles aliens as superhero Thor. But this day, his wounds are of the domestic variety.   "I was trying to grate ginger," said the 30-year-old actor,...

Horizons has just published Budulienko, is a modern poetic remake of a classic Czech folk tale, told from generation to generation. The story – in Maltese and English - revolves around a little...