April 2024
Salman Rushdie’s memoir is horrific, upsetting – and a masterpiece
In “Knife”, the author recounts his wounds and recovery in graphic detail, a documentary record which he leavens with humour.
- Erica Wagner
He’s blinded in one eye, but Salman Rushdie’s vision is undiminished
The author’s brush with death came more than 30 years after Iran’s ayatollah issued a fatwa calling for his killing over the ‘The Satanic Verses’.
- Sarah Lyall
May 2023
Writer Amis, who brought rock ‘n’ roll sensibility to his work, dies
The author best known for novels including Money and The Information has died from cancer of the esophagus at age 73.
February 2023
‘Now that I’ve almost died, everybody loves me’: Rushdie
Months after being stabbed repeatedly, Salman Rushdie is blind in his right eye, struggles to write and, at times, has “frightening” nightmares.
- Hillel Italie
October 2022
Booker’s Karunatilaka: ‘You don’t know who you’re going to offend’
Sri Lankan novelist Shehan Karunatilaka on growing up amid civil war, turning trauma into satire, and winning this year’s prize.
- Ellen Peirson-Hagger
August 2022
Rushdie attack suspect pleads not guilty to attempted murder, assault
Hadi Matar, 24, is accused of wounding Rushdie just before the author was to deliver a lecture on stage at an educational retreat.
- Tyler Clifford
- Opinion
- Literature
Publishers more fearful of reaction since Rushdie’s book
The book that led to Salman Rushdie’s attack would not be published today. Publishers no longer take chances if there is a risk of offending.
- Jake Kerridge
US condemns ‘despicable’ Iranian response to Rushdie stabbing
Secretary of State Antony Blinken denounced Iranian state institutions for inciting violence against the acclaimed author and then gloating about the attempt on his life.
- Nathan Layne
Rushdie attack recalls 1991 killing of his Japanese translator
The stabbing of the author is not the first time there has been violence against people associated with the publication of his novel The Satanic Verses.
- Hikari Hida and Mike Ives
This expert says the drop in US inflation is a ‘head fake’
Morgan Stanley warns against rejoicing too soon in last’s fall in US inflation; the victims of China’s property crash include billionaires; new weapons are helping Ukraine turn the tide against Russia. See how the day unfolded here.
- Updated
- Andrew Hobbs
Rushdie ‘off ventilator and talking’ after stabbing attack
Hadi Matar pleaded not guilty after allegedly stabbing Salman Rushdie 10 times in a frenzied attack.
- Updated
- Carolyn Thompson and Hillel Italie
Salman Rushdie stabbed, undergoing surgery
The 75-year-old writer was attacked while onstage for a lecture in western New York state. He was flown by helicopter to a local hospital.
- David Gelles and Jay Root
June 2021
The paradoxes and platitudes of Salman Rushdie
In a new collection of essays, the author reveals the difficulty of reconciling his belief in the multiple and ambiguous, with a kind of rational, at times literal absolutism.
- Leo Robson
October 2020
- Opinion
- Extremism
We're in the realms of the unsayable
Self-censorship is killing good writing, and destroying our liberal democracy with it.
- Bret Stephens
July 2020
Does cancel culture actually exist?
For the better part of the last decade, we have given a label to something that has existed for the length of human history.
- Sarah Manavis