Salman Rushdie
Rushdie on how the best magical realism transcends fantasy
Ask the man in the street to quote a line from one of Salman Rushdie’s novels, and he might struggle.…
Hanif Kureishi – portrait of the artist as a young man
Descriptions of the gifted author tearing up the literary landscape of the late 20th century are deeply poignant when set alongside Kureishi’s recent despatches from hospital
Marks out of ten
Like a weary schoolmaster toiling over his pupils’ homework, Peter Kemp dispenses praise, encouragement or reproof to modern fiction’s big-hitters
Salman Rushdie was never safe
The stabbing of Salman Rushdie sends a renewed message to the world: take Islamism – the transformation of the Islamic…
The New York Times' strange silence on Rushdie
The New York Times has never been shy about sharing its opinion – especially when it comes to bashing Britain. In…
Salman Rushdie and the incitement of violence
When I met Salman Rushdie in New York a couple of years ago, he told me that the days in…
France's support of Rushdie puts Britain to shame
If any further evidence was needed of the moral cowardice of the British political class it has been provided in…
Salman Rushdie overcame his fear
After Ayatollah Khomeini ordered Muslims to kill him for publishing The Satanic Verses in 1989, Julian Barnes gave Salman Rushdie…
The Mozarts of ad music
Richard Bratby meets the hidden men and women composing melodies to make you buy
Salman Rushdie: ‘The implausible has become everyday’
Salman Rushdie on writing in the Age of Anything-Can-Happen
It turns out I sound much cleverer in French
On Tuesday, Le Monde published a piece it had commissioned from me to explain why, from a British point of…
India in a day
Bold programming by the powers-that-be at Radio 4 meant it was possible to listen to all seven episodes of Ayeesha…
Cultured — and combative — criticism from America
Four years after his death, it is still faintly surprising to recall that Christopher Hitchens is no longer resident on…
