Salman Rushdie made an emotional and unexpected return to public life Thursday night, attending the annual gala of PEN America and giving the event’s final speech as he accepted a special prize ...

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 ...

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.

Hati Matar, the radical accused of stabbing famed writer Salman Rushdie in upstate New York two years ago, ambled into court Tuesday, police escort in tow, as his trial kicked off with jury selection.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Author Salman Rushdie responds to questions during a news interview for the 2023 PEN America Literary Gala Thursday, May 18, 2023, in New York. Frank Franklin II/AP hide caption ...

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.

MAYVILLE, N.Y. — With a mix of humor and graphic detail, Salman Rushdie calmly told a jury Tuesday about the frenzied moments in August 2022 when a masked man rushed at him on a stage in western ...