His memoir “Knife” answers violence with art, and explores the limits of the imagination.

How election deniers, covid skeptics, and a Thomas Jefferson impersonator are disrupting the upstate New York retreat for the elites.

Bari Weiss and other self-anointed defenders of free speech used the author’s stabbing to accuse the left of rhetorical excess—and ignored the very relevant scourge of book-banning by the American right.

Rushdie’s vision of desi identity, unrestrained by colonialism and above the fray of sectarian cant, should inspire us as he recovers from his wounds.

Salman Rushdie has spent decades campaigning for free speech. The attempt on his life came amid a crack down on freedom of expression around the world.

Not Haruki Murakami, that’s for sure.

Most of the big tech attempts to “disrupt” the book have failed.

His new book, “Inside Story,” reveals his greatest strengths as a writer—though he seems to be unaware of them himself.

The comic thriller “Squeeze Me” is set, like Hiaasen’s other books, in Florida—which turns out to make a big difference.

Rushdie’s new novel aims to skewer superstition and belief—but gets lost in its own games

A Hindu group sues, a publisher caves, and a nation becomes less free

May 23, 1981