Salman Rushdie, the most prominent literary figure to appear at the Tucson Festival of Books in its 17 years, spoke to about a thousand people Sunday from a festival stage ...

For all of his intellectualism and potentially intimidating reputation as one of the most acclaimed writers of the late 20th century, Salman Rushdie's sentences are powered in part by "a ...

Death stalks the pages of Salman Rushdie’s latest book, The Eleventh Hour, and it’s there in the first story in this collection. “They were eighty-one years old,” he writes. “If old age was thought of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. "The Eleventh Hour: A Quintet of Stories" (to be published Tuesday by Random House) is acclaimed novelist Salman ...

To speak hate—be it personal slander, political vitriol, or zealous calls for fatwa, jihad, and intifada—is to court its real-world manifestation. Since 1989, Salman Rushdie has been proof of this ...