Meditations After an Attempted Murder’, attempts to 'come to grips with the event' after a near-fatal knife attack on him ...
Salman Rushdie, having lived under a death sentence since 1989, has developed a nice line in gallows humour. Here he is, describing the sensation of being put on a ventilator after being stabbed ...
Very rarely do the visual and the textual — as in the case of the cover and contents of Salman Rushdie’s latest memoir, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder — have such a ...
Salman Rushdie’s recurring fear appears to not come so much from the attack as from the possibility that he will be more known for the mishaps in his life than the books he wrote. It must be ...
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, ...
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 ...
In Knife, Salman Rushdie’s remarkable account of finding his way back to life after an assassination attempt in upstate New York in August, 2022, love arrives with the tenderness of a saviour. It does ...
‘Art is a nail in the eye, a spike in the flesh’. When Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei wrote this in his autobiography 1000 years of Joys and Sorrows, he was referring to the idea that art ...
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 ...
Honoree Salman Rushdie speaks on stage at the 2023 PEN America Literary Gala at American Museum of ... [+] Natural History on May 18, 2023 in New York City. Salman Rushdie is one of the most ...