In the mid-1990s, I picked up the military classic "Art of War" hoping to find insight into my new career as an officer in the United States Marine Corps. I was not the only one looking for...

The characters are pure noir: Pat, a "dark, heavily handsome thick-shouldered" young man; Myra, a "cheesecakey" woman whose "thick blonde hair" fell "off her bare head to brilliant brassy...

"Honeybees and Distant Thunder" by Riku Onda (Pegasus Books) The Yoshigae music competition will never be the same after this year's pianists push the boundaries of the art form, leaving judges...

"The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession" by Michael Finkel (Alfred A. Knopf) What is it about stories of transgression that keep us wanting more of them? Tales of...

Melanie Hamrick, who knows her way around a quick pirouette, had to move fast when her 6-year-old son Deveraux recently picked up a copy of her new novel, "First Position," as she was signing...

The long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, "The Covenant of Water," is Oprah Winfrey's latest book club pick. "The Covenant of Water" is Verghese's first work of fiction since his...

'Faccati' Author: Joe Camilleri Publisher: Horizons / 2023 Pages: 271   The elderly priest, a monsignor no less, lies in a bed in one of the oncology wards. Facing him is...

'Il Curioso delle Donne' Author: Alberto Bevilacqua Publisher: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore / 1983 Pages: 263   Alberto Bevilacqua was an Italian writer and filmmaker....

For films, there are the Oscars. For books in English, there is the Booker. And here in Malta, for books published in our little country blessed with its own language, there is the National Book...

BDL has just published Id-Deffien taċ-Ċimiterju (The Grave Digger of the Cemetery) by Joseph A. Cachia, a collection of nine horror stories, a genre much sought after by the local reading...