Pankaj Mishra The idea of the global novel can obscure the many ways in which African and Asian writers still...
Salman Rushdie
'Satanic Verses' author attacks rise of religious and political tribalism that makes people define themselves by what they hate (The...
British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie (pic) , author of "Midnight's Children," has been announced winner of the 2014 Hans Christian Andersen...
“One of the problems of things being long ago is that the heat goes out of them,” says Salman Rushdie,...
JLF There was a time when India barely had any literary festivals. There were readings and book launches, there were mushairas and...
Mo Yan: no dissident. Photograph: Ulf Andersen/Getty Images Mo Yan, China's first Nobel laureate for literature, has been greeted with...
Does the bodyguard’s principal make conversation with the bodyguard, as they wait for the light to change, in the dull...
TWO, PERHAPS three years ago, watching a BBC documentary, I saw Syed Shahabuddin recall, eyes still glinting through his spectacles...
In a delicious irony, Salman Rushdie’s new book Joseph Anton, an account of his life on the run from free-speech...
"Politics and literature," Salman Rushdie wrote in 1984, in what now seems an innocent time, "do mix, are inextricably mixed,...
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