Anis Shivani

  • Tabbi With Claws

    It’s been a long time since we’ve had a political reporter with as much brio as Matt Tabbi, and as much disregard for the [...] Full Story

  • Why Jonathan Franzen’s “Freedom” Is The Most Overrated Recent Novel

    Jonathan Franzen has written a poignant book about coming of age in the Midwest of the 1970s, the discontents of family, searching for identity [...] Full Story

  • A glimpse at Wings Press

    In the first in a Huffington Post series spotlighting small presses, I chose Wings Press, a plucky San Antonio independent literary press that ‘s [...] Full Story

  • A Day in the Life

    Fifty-year-old Kevin Quinn, a scholarly editor at the University of Michigan Press in Ann Arbor, is visiting Austin for a day to interview with [...] Full Story

  • Lives in Extremes

    At the Indian consulate in an unidentified major American city, seven visa applicants and two members of the consular staff are trapped by an [...] Full Story

  • Illusion Nation

    Amid the hoopla over Barack Obama’s “historic” presidency, Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning [...] Full Story

  • Inside Amigoland

    Oscar Casares’s short story collection Brownsville (Back Bay, 2003) was an instant hit with critics and readers, establishing Casares as a writer to watch. [...] Full Story

  • The House Built on Sand

    In his April 14, 2009, “new foundation” speech on the economy, President Barack Obama said, “It is not sustainable to have an economy where [...] Full Story