Anis Shivani
In Conversation
BINNIE KIRSHENBAUM with Anis Shivani
Binnie Kirshenbaum has produced a diverse body of fiction over two decades. Difficult to classify, her work seems impatient with convention, eager to get to the point.
NONFICTION: The Highest Branch?
By Anis ShivaniJames MacGregor Burns’s lucid narrative demystifies the Supreme Court, appealing to layman and specialist alike. Burns brings alive the major eras of the Court, along with its key personalities and the presidents who tried (usually unsuccessfully) to mold the Court to their will, or “pack” it.
In Conversation with H. M. Naqvi
“We’d become Japs, Jews, Niggers. We weren’t before. We fancied ourselves boulevardiers, raconteurs, renaissance men, AC, Jimbo, and me. We were mostly self-invented and self-made and certain we had our fingers on the pulse of the great global dialectic.”
NONFICTION: Are We Cool?
By Anis Shivani“The cool is dead,” says Ted Gioia. Instead, “the future belongs to a different personality type, marked by earnestness, sincerity, skepticism, simplicity, and hard-nosed assertiveness.”
THE BIG NOWHERE CRUNCH
By Anis ShivaniI make no claims to understand the term “omega point,” as used by theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and physicist Frank Tipler.
Fiction: The Double Helix of Violence
By Anis ShivaniIn 2005 we saw the Paris suburbs lit afire by frustrated young people. Do such events start from little nothings, or are they explosions of major contradictions?
FICTION: The New Global Novel of Disorientation
By Anis ShivaniTawada’s novel is a distinguished contribution to the unique paranoid style of the new European novel. While Americans continue to write about identity in a world of mostly established meanings, Europeans are after much bigger game: the meaning of identity itself in a world bedeviled by simulacra and images, shoddy and glamorous.
Fiction: Telling No Tall Tales About Africa
By Anis ShivaniThere are at least four kinds of stories in this extremely rewarding collection
