A year after Salman Rushdie published "The Satanic Verses," Iran's late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini called for his death.       

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  • Salman Rushdie Shares ‘Weird Thing’ He Did Outside His Knife Attacker's Prison Cell
    The decorated author was famously stabbed in upstate New York while preparing to give a lecture on the need for freedom of creative expression.
    04/24/2024 - 2:40 am | View Link
  • Salman Rushdie’s ‘Knife’ unflinching about his stabbing
    In Salman Rushdie’s first book since the 2022 stabbing that hospitalized him and left him blind in one eye, the author wastes no time reliving the day he thought might be his last.
    04/20/2024 - 1:59 am | View Link
  • Salman Rushdie's 'Knife' is unflinching about his brutal stabbing and uncanny in its vital spirit
    Salman Rushdie's first book since the 2022 stabbing he thought might end his life is both explicit in the violence Rushdie sustains and heroic in the will to live that ...
    04/19/2024 - 11:45 pm | View Link
  • Salman Rushdie details the 27 seconds of the knife attack that nearly ended his life
    Rushdie remembers a man running onto the stage in Chautauqua that day ... but he believed that the author had attacked Islam. In 1989, Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling ...
    04/16/2024 - 9:00 pm | View Link
  • Salman Rushdie reveals in new book he had a cancer scare after stabbing attack
    Sir Salman Rushdie is made a Companion of Honour by the Princess Royal at Windsor Castle (Jonathan Brady/PA) When the attack happened on stage in August 2022, the author was due to speak about ...
    04/15/2024 - 6:59 am | View Link
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