The Latest Breaking News from Salman Rushdie

Why readers and writers will have to fight against a closing in of culture more than ever

For dissident writers fleeing persecution overseas, the United States has long been a safe haven, a place where freedom of expression is tolerated and, even, valued.

The bestselling author and TV writer is about to release his 56th book. He speaks to Hannah Stephenson about the role of social media in spreading ‘harmful’ views, his belief that writers are self-censoring, and how his wife Hill is his most important critic

‘People seem to take offence a great deal more easily than they used to,’ says the bestselling author and TV writer,

From the case of Dan Mallory to the story of Kaavya Viswanathan, literary critic Bethanne Patrick looks back on some of the strangest book scandals ever

Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan has often been in the news but has probably issued his sanest statement in recent times. Opposing the attack on Salman Rushdie in the British newspaper Guardian, Khan termed it “terrible” and “sad”, adding that the anger of Muslims at the book Satanic Verses…

When Emily Sack saw a young man leap at Salman Rushdie on the stage of a cultural center in western New York state, it happened so suddenly that she barely realized she was witnessing an attack on the author's life, AFP reported. Like many other residents of the Chautauqua Institution…

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's fatwa against the author Salman Rushdie in 1989 made clear that the greatest threat to artists, intellectuals and journalists in the modern era comes from authoritarian states. In recent years, the latter have increasingly outsourced violence to murky non-state actors. This grim trend has been underscored by…

As Khamenei crows over Rushdie, Biden seeks a revived pact. But make no mistake: this poisonous regime will always need its Great Satan