Shehryar Fazli

Shehryar Fazli is a UK-based writer, political analyst, and essayist. He is the author of the novel Invitation (2011), which was the runner-up for the 2011 Edinburgh International Festival’s first book award. He can be reached via email at shehryar_fazli@yahoo.com.

Articles

A Citadel of Fatuousness
Shehryar Fazli considers Scott Anderson’s new account of the United States’ bungling in Iran, a mistake with lasting consequences.
Shehryar FazliNov 25
- History
The Energy to Imagine Him: On Salman Rushdie’s “Knife”
Shehryar Fazli reviews Salman Rushdie’s “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder.”
Shehryar FazliJun 30, 2024
- Memoir & Essay
Losing by Not Winning
A sprawling history of the compromises, breakthroughs, and mistakes of the Democratic Party.
Shehryar FazliMay 27, 2022
- Politics
Cold War Mirrors
Shehryar Fazli reviews "The Quiet Americans," Scott Anderson's new history of the Cold War.
Shehryar FazliOct 30, 2020
David Lynch’s Sacred Clay
Does David Lynch and Kristine McKenna's hybrid biography-memoir "Room to Dream" offer the key to unlocking Lynch's film work?
Shehryar FazliJul 22, 2018
A Rifle on the Wall: Kevin Powers’s “A Shout in the Ruins”
"Powers seems more inclined toward over-regulation and order even as he’s trying to tell a story of disorder." On "A Shout in the Ruins."
Shehryar FazliJun 9, 2018
- Fiction
The Legacy of Eric Garner: Policing Still Going Wrong
The killing of Eric Garner gets a nuanced treatment from one of the left’s most polarizing stylists.
Shehryar FazliDec 11, 2017
- Politics
Rushdie’s Domus Aurea: “The Golden House” by Salman Rushdie
What can the novel say about Trump? Probably not much at this stage. About the United States? Plenty. Does "The Golden House" do so? Unfortunately not.
Shehryar FazliSep 13, 2017
- Fiction

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