It happened out of nowhere. On August 12, 2022, when Salman Rushdie was about to give a lecture on “the creation of safe spaces in America for writers from elsewhere” and his “involvement in that ...
InterviewOn the eve of his 77th birthday, the author of 'The Satanic Verses,' who survived a serious knife attack in 2022, talks about the 'second chance' he has been given. And of his singular ...
Rushdie began life, straight out of Cambridge, as a struggling actor in London’s fringe theatre. But a friend who had just gotten himself a well-paid, glamorous job in advertising suggested that ...
Salman Rushdie in a May 19 interview with Bild, a German newspaper: Right now, [one] has to be distressed by what is happening in Gaza because of the quantity of innocent death. I would just like ...
In one of the richly reflective passages in Knife, Salman Rushdie ruminates on Coleridge’s analysis of Iago’s capacity to inflict violence sans rationale. This reference to the villain in Othello is ...
It's hard to think of a writer more contentious than Salman Rushdie. From death threats to fatwas, insult to injury, the Indian-born British-American author has carved out a career from controversy, ...
Salman Rushdie, the British-American author who narrowly survived an attempt on his life in 2022 by a suspected Islamist radical, said Sunday that if a Palestinian state were established today, it ...
Your book has many strengths, precision and beauty, literary stamina and emotional certitude. This is not a memoir of grievance or regret. It asks for neither pity nor awe. It is a retrospective of a ...
The Bombay High Court ordered the removal of Salman Khan's name from a plea seeking a CBI investigation into the custodial ...