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Salman Rushdie, novelist who drew death threats, on ventilator after New York stabbing

Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born novelist who spent years in hiding after Iran urged Muslims to kill him because of his writing, was stabbed in the neck and torso onstage at a lecture in New York state on Friday and airlifted to a hospital, police said.

Reuters · Aug 12, 2022

Sir Salman Rushdie stabbed in neck and flown to hospital after on-stage attack

He was about to give a lecture

Wales Online · Aug 12, 2022

Author Salman Rushdie attacked on stage at event in New York

Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked Friday as he was about to give a lecture in western New York.

France 24 · Aug 12, 2022

Under Another Sky review – romcom seeks out the Romans in Britain

David Greig’s two-hander adapted from Charlotte Higgins’s nonfiction book about our ancient past is a sweet meander

The Guardian - UK · Aug 12, 2022

Sebastian Faulks: ‘George Orwell showed me that authorities are usually wrong’

The British novelist on the excitement of Alistair MacLean, the passion of DH Lawrence and the irreverence of Jane Austen

The Guardian - UK · Aug 12, 2022

R Kelly’s ‘fiancée’ Jocelyn Savage to ‘release tell-all book’ about living with disgraced singer, reports say

The book ‘should be published on Saturday (13 August), per her alleged statement

The Independent UK · Aug 12, 2022

Nuclear war no longer seems to scare us as much as it used to – have we become accustomed to the unthinkable?

The UN secretary general last week said humanity remains ‘one miscalculation away from annihilation’. We should be frightened – and angry

The Guardian - AU · Aug 12, 2022

French cartoonist Sempe, famous for whimsical New Yorker covers, dies age 89

French cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempe, who won international acclaim with a series of more than 100 drawings for the covers of The New Yorker magazine, has died at the age of 89.

France 24 · Aug 11, 2022

Desire by Jessie Cole review – an author reckons with her yearning for intimacy

For fans of Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women, Cole’s second memoir deals with the pain of an ambivalent courtship – while exploring her visceral need for love

The Guardian - AU · Aug 11, 2022

This week's bestsellers from Publishers Weekly

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Aug. 6, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by NPD BookScan © 2022 NPD Group.

Tribune News Service · Aug 11, 2022