Shehryar Fazli is a political analyst and author. He was raised in Paris, Mauritius, and Pakistan, educated in Canada and the United States. 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.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
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....
This Is Not a Charm Contest: The Life and Afterlife of Iceberg Slim
A memoir of a former petty black crook who reforms himself in prison becomes one of the landmark nonfiction works about the pre-civil rights African American experience....
Season of Saul
A review of the first volume of Zachary Leader's new biography of Saul Bellow....
Richard Pryor’s Comedy of Fear
A man alone on a stage with just his microphone, his talent, and his demons for company....
It Wasn’t Just a European War: WWI in Arabia
What can we learn from the Arab Middle East through the history of World War I?...
Around the World: Pakistan, Argentina, Brazil, Israel and More
In this month's edition of "Around the World," we focus on art and poetry trends in South America; look at the ...
The Assassin’s Challenge
How did Swat, Pakistan, come to be a place where an extremist could shoot a child in public at midday, and get away with it?...
Barbarism in Cultured Soil: Rushdie’s Great Pakistani Novel
On 'Shame,' Salman Rushdie's great "forgotten" novel...
