The New Yorker

'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.

Portrait of a family through an intelligence agent’s eyes

Besides the brilliantly unconventional addition of an Intelligence Agent as the main audience, the story’s language, unflinchingly charged with a humorous tone, is enough to keep a reader’s eyes glued to the screen.

February 6, 2023
February 6, 2023

'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.

September 29, 2022
September 29, 2022

Portrait of a family through an intelligence agent’s eyes

Besides the brilliantly unconventional addition of an Intelligence Agent as the main audience, the story’s language, unflinchingly charged with a humorous tone, is enough to keep a reader’s eyes glued to the screen.

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