A passage from India For many authors, conventional wisdom holds that short-story collections are a training ground for novels. Not so for Jhumpa Lahiri, whose debut short-story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, generated impressive word-of-mouth sales ... Read More »

Dog in a dinghy Stanley’s unstoppable creators – Vancouver writer Linda Bailey and illustrator Bill Slavin – are at it again in Stanley at Sea (Kids Can Press, $17.95 cl., Feb.), third in the rollicking ... Read More »

Fisherman’s blues Montreal author Taras Grescoe seems to be creating a whole new genre for himself: gonzo food journalism. In 2006’s The Devil’s Picnic, he travelled the world in search of forbidden – and forbidding ... Read More »

Planet Jarman Mark Anthony Jarman is known for an energetic and ambitious prose style. But for his first short-story collection in eight years, he’s also stretching what he writes about. The 14 stories in My ... Read More »