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5 days ago · Salman Rushdie’s thoroughly modern controversies. Len Gutkin. Salman Rushdie attends a photocall for the presentation of his book Knife. Getty Images. We tend to think of blasphemy—an offense against God—as a relic of an antique past. It seems to belong to times and places where religion and law speak with one voice.
3 days ago · With a title like Knife, Salman Rushdie’s account about his near-fatal stabbing in rural New York at the hands of a Hezbollah-supporting jihadist on August 12, 2022, might expect ideas how to respond to Islamist violence in Western democracies.
1 day ago · Under the Metal Man: Sligo in Yeats (Lilliput Press, €9.95), by Joseph M Hassett, brings together images of books and visual art reflecting Sligo’s presence in the work of the Yeats family.
4 days ago · Pynchon has published a number of articles and reviews in the mainstream American media, including words of support for Salman Rushdie and his then-wife, Marianne Wiggins, after the fatwa was pronounced against Rushdie by the Iranian leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. [127]
3 days ago · In her book ‘Love, Loss, and What We Ate’, model and celebrity chef Padma Lakshmi writes that her struggles with endometriosis played a role in she and writer Salman Rushdie going their separate ways. Apparently, when she refused sex due to the pain, Sir Rushdie’s acid response was “how convenient!”
1 day ago · Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou; 21 July 1948), [1] commonly known by his stage names Cat Stevens, Yusuf, and Yusuf / Cat Stevens, is a British singer-songwriter and musician. He has sold more than 100 million records and has more than two billion streams. [2] His musical style consists of folk, rock, pop, and, later in his career ...
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1 day ago · Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British-American writer whose allegorical novels examine historical and philosophical issues through surreal characters and brooding humor. His novels Midnight's Children , published in 1981, and The Satanic Verses , published in 1988, are his best-known works.
