MAYVILLE, N.Y. – The man convicted of trying to stab Salman Rushdie to death was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison for the attack, which left the acclaimed author critically injured and blind in ...
Salman Rushdie knows more about death than most of us. Decades ago, he lived in hiding after a death threat was issued by Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini following the publication of his novel The Satanic ...
Speaking with George Packer at the New Orleans Book Festival, the author was eager to return to the subject of fiction.
Though Matar didn’t reveal a clear motive for the attack, it was widely believed to have stemmed from a fatwa issued by ...
Author says he doesn’t ‘feel symbolic’ and hopes to steer narrative to his books after surviving assassination attempt ...
MAYVILLE, N.Y. — Salman Rushdie described in graphic detail Tuesday about the frenzied moments in 2022 when a masked man rushed at him on a stage in western New York and repeatedly slashed him with a ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The scene is intimate, haunting: Salman Rushdie, just a few days after being brutally attacked on a stage at an upstate New York ...