Salman Rushdie
Like father, unlike son: Martin Amis’s place in literature
Perhaps Martin Amis’s works do not grab me for the most part because it veers too far away from the humanism of, say, Saul Bellow—a writer Martin greatly admires and has written about extensively.
“It’s nice to be back—as opposed to not being back, which was also a possibility”: Salman Rushdie
Rushdie’s surprise appearance was the highlight of an eventful month for PEN, the literary and free expression organisation that has been in the middle—by choice and otherwise—of various conflicts.
Rushdie, and the victory of words
The story begins with an unnamed battle where all men of the tiny principality of Kampili die. Their wives commit mass suicide by lighting a massive bonfire on the coast of the river Pampa and immolating themselves in the pyre.
NEWS / Salman Rushdie releases new novel six months after stabbing attack
"All I've seen is his idiotic interview in the New York Post," said Rushdie about his attacker. "Which only an idiot would do."
'I sit down to write, and nothing happens': Salman Rushdie
"I write, but it’s a combination of blankness and junk", Salman Rushdie tells New Yorker's David Remnick.
BOOK NEWS / Hanif Kureishi's Twitter diary and why he couldn't make it to Bangladesh
"I realised I had to start again as a person and a writer. I had to become a comic writer, a serious writer, a writer who could integrate the madness and most interesting elements on the same page."
On free speech and Milton’s 'Areopagitica'
Milton shows how the erroneous use of censorship laws have hindered progress even in the quest for scientific truth.
Opinion / The dangerous game of Marlon James—Can genre fiction be great literature?
James seems to be saying to the establishment, to the same generous folks who once gave him the Booker and propelled him to the stratosphere: Go ahead and say this is not literature, I dare you.
How Salman Rushdie’s ‘Midnight’s Children’ changed my life
Metaphors have never made more sense to me than when these two swapped but intertwined lives personified India and Pakistan, the two newborn countries, whose births were marked by blood, pain and trauma.
Like father, unlike son: Martin Amis’s place in literature
Perhaps Martin Amis’s works do not grab me for the most part because it veers too far away from the humanism of, say, Saul Bellow—a writer Martin greatly admires and has written about extensively.
“It’s nice to be back—as opposed to not being back, which was also a possibility”: Salman Rushdie
Rushdie’s surprise appearance was the highlight of an eventful month for PEN, the literary and free expression organisation that has been in the middle—by choice and otherwise—of various conflicts.
Rushdie, and the victory of words
The story begins with an unnamed battle where all men of the tiny principality of Kampili die. Their wives commit mass suicide by lighting a massive bonfire on the coast of the river Pampa and immolating themselves in the pyre.
Salman Rushdie releases new novel six months after stabbing attack
"All I've seen is his idiotic interview in the New York Post," said Rushdie about his attacker. "Which only an idiot would do."
'I sit down to write, and nothing happens': Salman Rushdie
"I write, but it’s a combination of blankness and junk", Salman Rushdie tells New Yorker's David Remnick.
Hanif Kureishi's Twitter diary and why he couldn't make it to Bangladesh
"I realised I had to start again as a person and a writer. I had to become a comic writer, a serious writer, a writer who could integrate the madness and most interesting elements on the same page."
On free speech and Milton’s 'Areopagitica'
Milton shows how the erroneous use of censorship laws have hindered progress even in the quest for scientific truth.
The dangerous game of Marlon James—Can genre fiction be great literature?
James seems to be saying to the establishment, to the same generous folks who once gave him the Booker and propelled him to the stratosphere: Go ahead and say this is not literature, I dare you.
How Salman Rushdie’s ‘Midnight’s Children’ changed my life
Metaphors have never made more sense to me than when these two swapped but intertwined lives personified India and Pakistan, the two newborn countries, whose births were marked by blood, pain and trauma.
Attack fans interest in Rushdie works, mainly “Satanic Verses”
The stunning knife attack on author Salman Rushdie has fanned interest in his works - above all, The Satanic Verses, which left him living for years under a looming death threat.
