<h4>Nina Martyris has written for several publications including The Times of India, The Guardian, The New Republic, Slate, Salon and The Millions.</h4>

Nina Martyris

Auden, Rabelais, and “Charlie Hebdo”

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

George Orwell Weighs In on Scottish Independence

Siegfried Sassoon and Palestine 

Punjabi Parmesan

Europe Through the Looking Glass: Nina Martyris on Pallavi Aiyar

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

Mourning Tongues: How Auden Was Modified in the Guts of the Living

"Writing only leads to more writing." — Colette

Literary Criticism

The Blind Man’s Garden

Of Pomegranates and Grenades: Nadeem Aslam’s “The Blind Man’s Garden”

The Twenty-Seventh City

Freedom

Brown Noise: Jonathan Franzen’s Sirens of the Subcontinent 

The Kraus Project

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<h4>Andrew Winer&nbsp;is the author of the novels&nbsp;The Marriage Artist&nbsp;(Henry Holt &amp; Picador) and&nbsp;The Color Midnight Made, which was a national bestseller. He was educated in computer science and visual art, and practiced both disciplines in New York City before turning to writing. Other work of his has been published in philosophical journals.&nbsp; He is Chair of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside, and a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction. Married to author Charmaine Craig, he is completing&nbsp;a new novel about American religion and politics.</h4>

Andrew Winer

Essays on Jonathan Franzen’s Latest Book and His First

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

Nina Martyris has written for several publications including The Times of India, The Guardian, The New Republic, Slate, Salon and The Millions.