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Ahmad Saidullah was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award for Happiness and Other Disorders , his first short story collection, al...

Last night, we were startled to come across a reference in a book of short stories to another Russian writer we had just read.  Viktor Erofe...

Joseph O'Neill's Netherland is an account of an immigrant in the cricketing fraternity of New York. As a quondam cricket fan and wri...

Giles Foden, author of books on Africa, reviews Moyez Vassanji's The Assassin's Song in the Guardian.

Geist magazine published an excerpt from Happiness in Curiosa.

Happiness and Other Disorders: Short Stories has its own Facebook group. You can read excerpts from several reviews of Happiness and Other ...

Two recent reviews of James Wood's How Fiction Works: Catherine Bush's Globe review and Morgan Meis' The Smart Set review from...

A writer friend is editing the adverbs out of the second edition of her book. We sent her this Kenyon Review feuilleton recently. This was ...

Stephen Clare and Trevor Adams are producing a book for Nimbus Publishing in Halifax to be released next year titled "Spindrift; The 10...

The Guardian on places unlikely to have inspired writers. Click here for the story and comments. I wonder about other countries and their l...

Back after a while.... William Deresiewicz reviews The Enchantress of Florence. Click here for the review

Time for writers to blow a few of their own trumpets even if they don’t bring the walls of Jericho down. Advance praise for the book : ...

Happiness and Other Disorders: Short Stories , our book of short stories was published by Key Porter Books on Saturday 5 January 2008. The ...

Ahmad Saidullah's short story Happiness And Other Disorders won second prize in the 2005 CBC Literary Awards held at La Grande Bibliot...

What does it take to sell books? What are the risks to a street hawker hustling a sale at busy traffic lights in Delhi? Click here for visu...

Alison Pick , a rising literary star, won the top CBC Literary Award for poetry. Alison is the author of the novel The Sweet Edge, a Globe ...

Because her parents made it to a hospital on time, Paulette Dubé was born in Westlock, Alberta. Growing up in the French village of Legal, s...

Erin Soros’ The Chorus won the 2005 Bob Weaver Prize, the top CBC Literary Award for short fiction. Soros was born and raised in Vancouver ...

Jane Silcott , whose essay won second prize in the CBC Literary Awards, had moved to the west coast 30 years ago from Toronto to ski and cli...

Between Munich and World War II, fresh from his successes with La Bete Humaine and Grande Illusion, Jean Renoir set out to paint "a pre...

Heaps lie on the kitchen and bedside tables to be read or re-read: Nuruddin Farah, Maurice Blanchot, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Georges Perec...

2005 CBC Literary Awards' prize-winning entries were read on Between The Covers . The English-language categories winners were broadcast...

For those disenchanted with the quality and focus of much of recent Indoanglian lit, Penguin India 's announcement in April 2005 seemed...

So from hour to hour we ripe and ripe and from hour to hour we rot and rot…

Deathless shape shifters have come in many forms and with varying habits, powers, and vulnerabilities such as eisoptrophobia (fear of mirror...

With India and China poised to become world superpowers, it’s time to reflect on their shared histories and tensions. Huan-Tsang, or Xuan-Za...

Kim Echlin has been a documentary-maker and editor. She completed her PhD on the translation of Ojibway trickster stories. She has worked a...

“Testimony signifies something other than a simple narrative of things seen. Testimony is that on which we rely to think…to estimate…in shor...

Another testament to that most murderous of centuries. Prix Goncourt and Prix Maghreb winner Tahar Ben Jelloun ’s This Blinding Absence of L...

A provocation: Deep down, we feel Rushdie is, at times, a sloppy plethoric writer who needs a strong editor. We wonder if he can find one fo...

It's heinous when the foreign policy of a country such as the US is propped up by shamateurs prosing "expertly" on "Middl...

We just wonder sometimes if, a little like the Red Queen, we are being asked to swallow six impossible things before breakfast. Publishers c...

We are not talking about typos as in an English translation of Kathasaritasagar ("my lather is very ill") or about wholesale hilar...

Perhaps fittingly for someone who trades in suffering, a writer’s lot has never been a happy one. Baudelaire’s life was an essay in privatio...

We know about south Asian writing from Delhi, Bombay, London, New York and LA. Vanity Fair takes us to the land of Rohinton Mistry, M. G. V...

The Toronto South Asian Book Club met on 2 May to plan its reading list for 2006/07. Except for Anar Ali's book, all are available in pa...

Rick Salutin believes that Canadians read more for show than for pleasure or instruction. He points to book clubs and voting on books as pr...

What are the formal structural similarities among the alphabets of various scripts? What is the underlying logic of letters? Is there a topo...

"Speculative fiction" is a term we have trouble with. All fiction is speculative. It posits a "what if" as its premise. ...

A reader sends in his praises. It makes the whole exercise worthwhile. We are pleased and somewhat flustered to quote them. "What a tre...

The apple is a potent fruit long equated with the rites of courtship, marriage and fertility. Centuries before the apple of knowledge was ea...

Monika Jain and Leena Chawla have launched Kahani , "the first children's literary magazine for South Asian kids in the United Stat...

It’s expected that filmmakers would attend arts school. Peter Greenway’s framing and tableaux furnish proof of his arts training and Julian ...

What do Jorge Semprún and José Saramago have in common? Both were members of the Communist Party. Saramago still is — he describes himself...

What do the Rushdie case, the Behzti play and the beach riots say about the value of multiculturalism in states like England and Australi...

A report by the Bookseller and the Arts Council in England states that the book trade is ignoring the potential of the black and ethnic mino...

Philip Ball, The Devil’s Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006) None embodied t...