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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
In the mid-1990s, when I was still a bookish teenager, my parents took me to Paris. It was the end of December; we would, before the trip was done, spend New Year’s Eve on the Champs Élysées ...
Ever since the 1950s organised Black politics in South Africa (just as in much of Africa) has been marked by a division between moderate elements who would prefer to adhere to non-racial, ...