The stories in The Eleventh Hour tell Rushdie’s life story in metaphorical glimpses.
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Is Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny the great American–Indian novel?
We’ve invited writers, from fields as diverse as wildlife ecology, politics and literature, to nominate their best books of 2024. And this year, the Books & Ideas team share their own picks, too.
Correspondence between Malaysia’s Mahathir Mohamad and Britain’s Margaret Thatcher showed how differently the Muslim world and the West viewed the book.
Rushdie feared until he dealt with the attempt on his life, he ‘wouldn’t be able to write anything else’. The book is a clearly cathartic story of courage and resilience, but it’s curiously one-eyed.
African immigrant writers possess particularly acute insights into the way race and racism affect daily life in the US.
So many authors are creating Substack newsletters – from Bri Lee’s magazine-like News & Reviews, to George Saunders’ writing tips and Hanif Kureishi’s reflections on being paralysed. But can it last?
Nigeria is deeply polarised along ethnic, religious, cultural and political lines – and violence is never far from the surface.
The constitutionality of the recent wave of proposed book bans is unclear, as the US Supreme Court has given states wide latitude to regulate what is read in public schools and libraries.
Victory City marks a return for Rushdie, who has not set a novel substantially on the Indian subcontinent for over a decade.
Writers seem to be especially vulnerable in polarized times, when the nuances of works are more likely to be overlooked.
The Chautauqua movement symbolized progressive reformers’ hopes that public learning could create a healthy democracy.
Rushdie’s books have inspired generations of readers and writers – and a recent attempt to kill him.
The attack on Salman Rushdie promptly led to speculation on whether the attacker had been influenced by the 1989 fatwa against the author. A scholar explains what a fatwa is, and isn’t.
The fatwa against Salman Rushdie has political significance beyond the threat to free speech.
Talk of the attack risks devolving into overly simplistic free speech debates.
Salman Rushdie, great writer and outspoken defender of writers’ freedom of expression, has been under a fatwa for more than 30 years. He’s set to recover from a shock stabbing last Friday in New York.
Archival documents show that in the 1980s, British education officials refused to engage with Muslim communities about funding faith-based schooling.
Literary author Salman Rushdie is publishing his new novella on newsletter subscription platform Substack - sparking conversations about the challenges and potential the platform offers publishing.
How words are used change over time and insisting that their original meaning be adhered to is pretty silly.
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Emeritus Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Murdoch University
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Senior Lecturer, Writing, Department of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology
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Affiliated Faculty of Bioethics, Religion, and Society, Department of Religious Studies, DePaul University
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Mellon Chair of Indian Studies and the Director of the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, University of the Witwatersrand
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FBA Professor of English Literature, King's College London
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Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford
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Lecturer in Literature and Migration, University of Bristol
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Lecturer in Secondary History Education, University of Birmingham
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Foundation Professor of Environmental Humanities, Arizona State University
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Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Centennial Professor in Drama, The University of Texas at Austin
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Professor of English, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, ACU, Australian Catholic University
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Professor of English, College of Charleston
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town
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Associate Teaching Professor of Writing, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of Law, University of Dayton