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Anis Shivani

Anis Shivani’s critically-acclaimed books of poetry, fiction, and criticism include Logography: A Poetry Omnibus; Confessions: Poems; The Moon Blooms in Occupied Hours: Poems; Soraya: Sonnets; Karachi Raj: A Novel; A History of the Cat in Nine Chapters or Less: A Novel, and Literary Writing in the 21st Century: Conversations. His writing appears in literary journals, such as Georgia Review, Yale Review, Boston Review, Threepenny Review, Antioch Review, AGNI, Fence, Boulevard, Subtropics, Times Literary Supplement, London Magazine, Wasafiri, and many others. He has just finished writing The Incident of the Missing Kanchani, a novel set in Mughal Emperor Akbar’s court in 16th-century India. Shivani has lived in Houston, Texas for far more years than he expected, including in the Little India neighborhood described in Patel Mart.

17 July, 2023 • Anis Shivani

The Failure of Postcolonial Modernity in Siddhartha Deb’s Light

Anis Shivani finds that Siddhartha Deb's "outright denial of human agency sets him apart from even the most dire modernists."

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1 May, 2023 • Anis Shivani

Immigrants in Houston: Fiction From Anis Shivani’s Patel Mart

Novelist Anis Shivani has lived in Houston for more than a decade and sets his upcoming novel amongst its immigrant community.

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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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