Knife review: Salman Rushdie’s memoir is a reckoning with his reader – and it’s written with resentment

@cityam— Salman Rushdie's Knife is a reckoning with his reader, and it is written with resentment, writes Anna Moloney.

www.counterpunch.org—The Clown Must Die: a Review of Rushdie’s Knife. “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

PBS—Salman Rushdie reflects on attack that changed his life in new memoir 'Knife'. 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.

Independent.ie—Sir Salman Rushdie: I have the power back after writing about knife attack. Sir Salman Rushdie has said writing a book about his knife attack was a device to give him back “power” over his own life.