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Opinion | Salman Rushdie Is Not Who You Think He Is
New York Times· 1 day agoIn August of 2022, more than 30 years after the fatwa, a fanatic with a knife attacked and tried to kill Rushdie. This is what I now understand after...
Knife: Salman Rushdie's 'mesmeric memoir' of brutal attack
The Week· 9 hours agoWhen Salman Rushdie attended a literary event in upstate New York on the morning of 12 August 2022, it had been 33 years since the Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwa for his novel "The Satanic Verses ...
Salman Rushdie Weighs In on Death Threats Against Taylor Swift Critic
The Daily Beast· 4 days agoThe “Satanic Verses” author had a few things to say about people who take their disagreements a bit...
Salman Rushdie Shares ‘Weird Thing’ He Did Outside His Knife Attacker's Prison Cell
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 3 days agoSalman Rushdie didn’t let his attacker have the last laugh — nor the last dance. The Booker...
Salman Rushdie's 'Knife' is unflinching about his brutal stabbing and uncanny in its vital spirit
Republican-American· 5 days agoIn Salman Rushdie’s first book since the 2022 stabbing that hospitalized him and left him blind in...
Salman Rushdie cuts to the quick in ‘Knife’
Tampa Bay Times· 5 days agoIf you’re Salman Rushdie, you write a book about it. Rushdie’s new memoir, “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder,” has a stunningly graphic but...
Salman Rushdie Recalls ‘Dancing’ Outside His Attacker’s Jail in Jon Stewart Interview
Mediaite· 4 days agoAuthor Salman Rushdie recalled “dancing” outside the jail where his alleged attacker is being held...
Book Reviews: Victory City: Salman Rushdie
The Valdosta Daily Times· 2 days agoSalman Rushdie is a writer best known, sadly and arguably, for a fatwa placed on his head rather than for the books he writes. Which is horrible not only from the perspective of Rushdie having ...
Salman Rushdie reveals Margaret Thatcher inspired decision to not name knifeman in memoir
The Independent US via AOL· 6 days agoSir Salman Rushdie has made the surprising revelation that it was Margaret Thatcher who inspired his...
Salman Rushdie reveals secret dream of becoming an actor as he recalls dragging up for a role
WFMZ Eastern Pennsylvania and Western New Jersey· 6 days agoSalman Rushdie wanted to be an actor. At Cambridge, I took part in a lot of student theatre and only...