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Losing by Not Winning
A sprawling history of the compromises, breakthroughs, and mistakes of the Democratic Party....
Shehryar Fazli
Shehryar Fazli is an author, political analyst, and essayist who divides his time between Pakistan and Canada. 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 [email protected].
Articles
Cold War Mirrors
Shehryar Fazli reviews "The Quiet Americans," Scott Anderson's new history of the Cold War....
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?...
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."...
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....
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....
An Honest Town
One of the first books about the 2016 campaign focuses on its first primary, where Trump emerged triumphant....
He’s My Death, Too: Emmett Till and America
Shehryar Fazli on Timothy B. Tyson's "The Blood of Emmett Till."...
All That Bad
Shehryar Fazli on Deirdre Bair's new biography of Al Capone....
Edward Albee’s Beautiful Venom
Shehryar Fazli reflects on Edward Albee's acerbic oeuvre....
The Fresh Air of the Modern World
Leslie M. M. Blume proves that Hemingway matters after all....
Behind the Grunt: Finding the Soul of the Godfather of Soul
James McBride adds flesh and bone to musical myth....
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