Salman Rushdie

The U.S. president, says Rushdie, is “crazy like a fox,” which has made his attacks on the concept of objective truth so effective

Padma Lakshmi, the ‘Top Chef’-judging, billionaire-dating former model, has written the über female celebrity memoir—frank, juicy and surprisingly radical

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Rushdie’s latest, ‘Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights,’ is a meditation on the mutability of the world

‘Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect,’ says the famous novelist.

When Justin Trudeau holds a rally in Mississauga, Ont. this evening—his Liberal leadership campaign’s first stop in the Toronto suburbs so coveted by strategists of all parties—he’ll be introduced by Zaib Shaikh, the actor best known as a star of CBC’s Little Mosque on the Prairie. Shaikh also has a role in the new movie Midnight’s Children, Canadian director Deepa Mehta’s adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s celebrated novel.

Book by Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie spent almost a decade in hiding after Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against him

The Kurdish translator of Salman Rushdie’s infamous book is under attack

Over the summer, I was able to spend some time with three great books: On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan, Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie and, most recently, Herzog by Saul Bellow. All three, coming highly recommended by friends whose judgment have my utmost respect, shone for me. And this is not to say that I’ve actually finished all (or any) of them. Anyone familiar with my restless reading habits knows that only rarely do I ever finish a book – and never in a timely fashion.