Author Salman Rushdie attends the 2023 PEN America Literary Gala on May 18, 2023, in New York. AP “I accept this award, therefore, on behalf of all those who came to my rescue.

Salman Rushdie was back on the New York social scene on Monday, attending the New York Public Library’s Lions gala with his wife, the poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths.

S alman Rushdie’s new novel, Victory City, purports to be the summary of a long-lost, 24,000-verse epic poem from 14th-century India.The hero and author of the poem is Pampa Kampana, who as a ...

How Salman Rushdie Reckoned With an Unthinkable Attack His memoir “Knife” answers violence with art, and explores the limits of the imagination. Leonardo Cendamo/Getty Images ...

Salman Rushdie is back at his desk, savoring the acclaim for his most recent work and bending to the next—his account of the attack that nearly killed him last summer on a stage in Chautauqua, N ...

In Rushdie’s book, Salman, for example, attributes certain actual passages in the Quran that place men “in charge of women” and give men the right to strike wives from whom they “fear ...

That is one of Rushdie’s oldest themes, going back to “Midnight’s Children” more than 40 years ago. It received its most pointed treatment in “The Satanic Verses,” whose attack on ...

Salman Rushdie, writer, at the Cheltenham Literature Festival on October 10, 2015 in Cheltenham, England. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images) Getty Images In the opening scene of Salman Rushdie ...

Novelist Salman Rushdie backed out of delivering a commencement speech at a California college just days before the graduation, following protests by some students on campus.. The celebrated ...

On the witness stand, Salman Rushdie described the frenzied moments when a masked man rushed at him on a stage and repeatedly slashed him with a knife. Salman Rushdie testifies about shock as ...

Salman Rushdie, the author whose ... Susan B. Anthony advocated for women's rights at the institution and President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his 1936 “I Hate War” speech in the amphitheater.