Sir Salman Rushdie has said writing a book about his knife attack was a device to give him back “power” over his own life.
On August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie, one of the world’s best-known writers, was attacked and nearly killed by a young man with a knife. Rushdie has written of that harrowing day and all that’s followed in a new book. He discussed it with Jeffrey Brown for our arts and culture series, CANVAS.
Salman Rushdie is opening up about the horrific attempt on his life in 2022
Salman Rushdie's Knife is a reckoning with his reader, and it is written with resentment, writes Anna Moloney.
Knife attack on church in Wakeley: Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel breaks his silence after alleged attack with a powerful message - A bishop who was allegedly stabbed in the middle of a sermon that was broadcast live online says he is “fine” and has forgiven his alleged attacker.Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was preaching at Christ The Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley, Sydney's southwest, on Monday evening when a 16-year-old boy walked up to the altar and allegedly stabbed him repeatedly.Bishop Emmanuel...
The girl's middle school in the village of Souffelweyersheim closed its doors on Thursday afternoon after a man stabbed two other girls - aged 7 and 11 - outside a nearby primary facility.
Foreign secretary says UK hopes Israel will respond ‘in a way that does as little to escalate this as possible’
Here’s everything to know about the upcoming Terminal Attack mode in Season 2 of The Finals, including its release date.
The attacker, who is aged in his late 20s, was arrested in the area where he attacked the second girl.
Bayer Leverkusen coach Xabi Alonso said it was "hard to explain" why his unbeaten Bundesliga champions kept snatching games late after Saturday's last-gasp 2-2 draw against Stuttgart.
“Conversely, imagine “the enemy” as conceived by a man of ressentiment—and here precisely is his deed, his creation: he has conceived “the evil enemy,” “the evil one”—and indeed as the fundamental concept frem which he then derives, as an afterimage and counterinstance, a “good one’—himself.” – Nietzsche Salman Rushdie is a funny guy. I wouldn’t say More
Back in the day, Salman Rushdie used to joke that the argument over The Satanic Verses, his satirical novel caricaturing Prophet Muhammad, was a “quarrel between those with a sense of humour and those without one”.But, lately, his mood has darkened and he has become less forgiving of his critics, judging from his new book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, a cathartic account of the murderous attack on him at a literary event in upstate New York in the summer of 2022.It left him with...