Jan
2011

Review – ‘Requiem for a dream’– Hubert Selby Jr.

by Simona Sitarova

For those brave enough to breach its covers, this book will take you on such a roller-coaster of thrills and suspense, and will inspire such a whirlwind of emotion that catching your breath will seem impossible. Once immersed in the book, I can guarantee that putting it down before you finish it will not be [...]




Sep
2010

Interview with Jo Caruana

by Diane Brincat

What do you do with a B.A? Despite arts students getting the brush-off in society, many of them go on to become editors, educators, writers, journalists, and everything in between. Jo Caruana, a graduate in B.A. Arts Journalism at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, and top editor and writer, tells Diane Brincat how she has conquered [...]




Mar
2010

Here comes the Doorstopper: Ġuzè Stagno interviews Alfred Sant

by Ġuzè Stagno

In local literary circles, Alfred Sant is an author more usually admired than read. It’s not that Sant’s books are bad: au contraire, they are probably the closest Maltese literature ever got to a ‘proper’ postmodern discourse. Sant’s last novel, cryptically titled L-Għalqa tal-Iskarjota, is something else, however. It features a cleverly plotted story that makes you turn the pages well into the night.