Do we really need more male novelists?

found 2025 › May › 02 (Fri) @ 19:02 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

There may not be obvious successors to the likes of Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie among today’s hotshot young writers. But is a new publisher dedicated to ‘overlooked’ male voices necessary?

‘Where h…

Attacker who stabbed Salman Rushdie to be sentenced for attempted murder

found 2025 › Apr › 23 (Wed) @ 09:20 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Hadi Matar was convicted over 2022 attack in western New York that left author partially blinded

Hadi Matar, the man who stabbed and partially blinded the novelist Salman Rushdie onstage at a New York…

Knife by Salman Rushdie audiobook review – 27 seconds that changed everything

found 2025 › Apr › 11 (Fri) @ 11:45 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

The author recalls the attack that almost killed him in an honest, terrifying and life-affirming memoir

On 12 August 2022, Salman Rushdie was at a literary conference in Chautauqua, New York, about to…

When it’s illegal to cause distress to believers, call it for what it is: a secular version of blasphemy | Kenan Malik

found 2025 › Feb › 16 (Sun) @ 10:30 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Language can ‘open eyes’, Salman Rushdie wrote, yet still ideas of profanity are being used to silence dissenting voices

‘Whatever the attack was about, it wasn’t about The Satanic Verses.” So insists…

I was with Salman Rushdie when he was stabbed. The ‘reader effect’ saved us

found 2025 › Feb › 15 (Sat) @ 17:44 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Reading fiction fosters empathy in a polarized world. I’ve learned how arts organizations can do the same

On 12 August 2022, I was about to begin interviewing Salman Rushdie at the Chautauqua Institut…

‘Screaming because of the pain’: Salman Rushdie recounts stabbing at trial

found 2025 › Feb › 12 (Wed) @ 06:23 UTC

a story from Al Jazeera › Al Jazeera English

American-Lebanese Hadi Matar, 23, is accused of attempting to kill The Satanic Verses author in frenzied 2022 attack.

Salman Rushdie tells stabbing trial: ‘It occurred to me quite clearly I was dying’

found 2025 › Feb › 11 (Tue) @ 16:41 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Author says ‘I was screaming because of the pain’ in trial of man accused of trying to kill him

Salman Rushdie took the stand in the trial of the man accused of attempting to kill him at a literary ga…

Salman Rushdie reveals first words he said as he was taken off ventilator and shows court his sewn-up eye and says 'that's what's left of it' as he gives evidence against alleged knife attacker

found 2025 › Feb › 11 (Tue) @ 16:41 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Outspoken author Salman Rushdie today revealed the first words he spoke after he was taken off a ventilator following a near-fatal knife attack in 2022

Salman Rushdie describes stabbing attack as author takes stand in trial

found 2025 › Feb › 11 (Tue) @ 15:38 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Author explains how he was ‘screaming because of the pain’ in trial of man accused of trying to kill him

Salman Rushdie took the stand in the trial of the man accused of attempting to kill him at a li…

Salman Rushdie set to testify in trial of man accused of trying to murder him

found 2025 › Feb › 11 (Tue) @ 09:29 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Author, 77, to take stand in trial of Hadi Matar, 27, after prosecution alleges suspect came close to killing him

Salman Rushdie is expected to take the stand in the trial of the man accused of attemp…