The National Book Council (NBC) is thrilled to announce that the bestselling crime fiction author Ian Rankin will be among the special guests at this year's edition of the Malta Book Festival, taking...

Contemporary Maltese artist Etienne Farrell presents Unblinking, a multidisciplinary exhibition that explores the eye as symbol, sense, metaphor and witness. Taking place at the historic Church of St...

The unanimous approval of Carmelo Abela as Speaker of the House of Representatives and Bernard Grech as Deputy Speaker was an encouraging display of political maturity. It showed that despite the...

There was something of a buzz in Valletta on Saturday morning, as the 15th legislature since Malta's independent officially began with the swearing in of the 79 MPs elected in the 30 May general...

To my great surprise when I started researching about the book I am reviewing today, I found out that the author was born just a few weeks before me - he on St Bartholomew's Eve and I a few days...

As humans, we naturally seek some level of external validation, the sense of being seen, valued, and accepted by the people around us. This might come as praise from a colleague, a compliment from a...

It was impossible for me to attend the launch of Mela, Reggie Burrows Hodges's exhibition at MICAS that so many art lovers are talking about. It's beautiful to think he lived here quietly for a year,...

The opening of Parliament yesterday signalled another step towards the normal administration of the country. It effectively closed off a seven-week period of time during which the country passed...

Must a photograph do anything other than make us look? In Still Time, Lisa Gwen Chetcuti's retrospective of Joseph P. Smith's work returns to this question across 50 years of practice. In this...

The distinguished academic publisher Peter Lang has recently released The Sirens' Chant: Bloom & Chichikov, a new scholarly work authored by Prof. Giuseppe Schembri Bonaci. In a period marked...