“When it rains here, the skies splatter open, as if Mr. Hyde had taken a knife to a beautiful woman, ripping her apart, smiling thunderously over her remains. It’s a brutal rain here, like everything else.” Story of the Week (December 6), by Anis Shivani.
Mr. Shivani talks to Sauleha Kamal about ‘world literature’, the malign influence of the marketplace, and authoritarianism in various guises…
In the opening essay from ‘Literature at the Global Crossroads’, Anis Shivani reflects on the past, present, and future of ‘World Literature’
“Since spring, Geneva has thrown open her home to soldiers.”
Poem of the Week (August 20), by Anis Shivani