Anis Shivani

Anis Shivani

Anis Shivani is a fiction writer, poet, and critic, based in Houston, Texas. He has just finished a novel called Karachi Raj about an American anthropologist conducting fieldwork in South Asia. Next up is a novel set in Mussolini’s Italy. Anis has an A.B. in economics from Harvard College (1992).

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Wednesday, November 07, 2012
What Progressives Expect from Obama
Dear President Obama,
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Saturday, April 07, 2012
Modern American Politics as Performance Art
At an early Republican presidential debate the candidates all raised their hands like robots when asked if they would veto a ten to one ratio of spending cuts to tax increases to balance the budget. Ten to one! I suspect the answer would have been the same had the ratio been a hundred to one.
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