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Author: Anis Shivani

Anis Shivani is the author of numerous critically-acclaimed books of poetry, fiction, and criticism, including, most recently, Logography: A Poetry Omnibus, Confessions: Poems, The Moon Blooms in Occupied Hours: Poems, Soraya: Sonnets, Karachi Raj: A Novel, and A History of the Cat in Nine Chapters or Less: A Novel. His work appears widely in leading literary journals such as Georgia Review, Yale Review, Boston Review, Threepenny Review, Antioch Review, AGNI, Fence, Boulevard, Subtropics, and many others, and in newspapers and magazines around the country. He has just finished writing a novel of the Mughal empire in sixteenth-century India. Shivani is the winner of a Pushcart Prize, and a graduate of Harvard College.

20 February, 2023 • Anis Shivani

Salman Rushdie’s Victory City: a Novel in Search of an Empire

Pushcart winner Anis Shivani reviews the latest novel by Salman Rushdie, who survived a nightmarish knife attack at Chautauqua last summer.

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