A top-notch detective story
Tuesday, 2 August 2022, 09:28
Last update: about 5 years ago
Mark A. Sammut Sassi
Even though the story is set in the 1930s, Aleks Farrugia's Camerata! is not a historical novel: the author is too liberal with historical accuracy, at least in this reviewer's opinion. So it's a...
An autobiographical novel
Tuesday, 2 August 2022, 09:23
Last update: about 5 years ago
Noel Grima
On 1 May, I wrote, perhaps too late, a review of my friend Oliver Friggieri's autobiography, Fjuri li ma jinxfux. This novel, translated in English by Rose Marie Caruana, covers more or less the same...
History as a slow-flowing river
Sunday, 24 July 2022, 11:00
Last update: about 5 years ago
Noel Grima
First the immediate things you notice. The massive book that you can hardly hold. The quaint numbering of pages, decreasing rather than increasing, as we do in the West. Then you find out this is a...
'Wendy Williams Show' ending, new Sherri Shepherd show ahead
Sunday, 24 July 2022, 09:59
Last update: about 5 years ago
"The Wendy Williams Show" will end because of Williams' prolonged health-related absence and be replaced this fall with a show hosted by Sherri Shepherd, the producer of both TV programs said...
New Tears for Fears songs 'plumb the depths of our souls'
Sunday, 24 July 2022, 09:58
Last update: about 5 years ago
Associated Press
Creating the first Tears for Fears album of new material in 17 years didn't initially go too well. The duo went into the studio with an array of songwriters to try and tease out a modern hit...
Loving documentary of TV giants in 'Lucy and Desi'
Sunday, 24 July 2022, 09:56
Last update: about 5 years ago
Associated Press
A boy sees a pretty girl at a party and delivers a pick-up line for the ages. "If you don't have anything to do tonight, how would you like to learn how to do the rhumba?" he asks. The girl is...
Saul Williams working on graphic novel 'Let There Be Dark'
Sunday, 24 July 2022, 09:52
Last update: about 5 years ago
Associated Press
The rapper, actor and poet is working with illustrator Paul Davey (otherwise known as "mattahan") on a graphic novel, "Let There Be Dark," which publisher First Second Books calls a "high wire dance"...
Book donation to the Malta Society of Arts
Saturday, 23 July 2022, 17:58
Last update: about 5 years ago
On Tuesday 19 July 2022, Profs. Joseph P. Cassar, recipient of the 2019 Malta Society of Arts' (MSA) prestigious Gold Medal, donated 15 signed copies of his seminal art history books to the Society....
GO celebrates Women in WW2 in new TV production
Saturday, 23 July 2022, 17:49
Last update: about 5 years ago
A cabaret dancer turned war plotter inside Lascaris war headquarters, a Maltese woman living in Tunisia who joins an underground resistance network to relay information about axis movements to the...
Medical Maltese: two new books
Tuesday, 19 July 2022, 11:29
Last update: about 5 years ago
Charles Daniel Saliba has recently completed two new books, Maltese Grammar Essentials in Context for Healthcare Professionals and Speaking Medical Maltese from Zero, following his...