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.
An excerpt from ‘Banned: A Social Media Trial’, by Boria Majumdar.
The victim was taken to hospital for treatment, police said
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.
The remains of a 12-year-old boy who had been missing for years were found in the attic of a residence in New York where a sex offender reportedly lived at a sober living group. Jaylen Griffin left his home on August 4, 2020, to go to the grocery store and was never seen alive again. On Sunday, three and a half years later, his grandmother heard the news she had been praying against for years. “I ask the Lord to give me strength. That’s how I process it,” Shirley Banks said to WGRZ-TV....
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...
Sir Salman Rushdie has said writing a book about his knife attack was a device to give him back “power” over his own life.
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According to a GoFundMe created by a family member, Mirna Soza Arauz was from Nicaragua and was a mother of three with four grandchildren.
A man was arrested Monday in the death of a woman who was fatally stabbed in the throat on a Metro train, Los Angeles police said. The passenger, a woman in her 50s, was found stabbed in the throat at the Universal City station shortly after 5 a.m. Monday, according to Los Angeles Police Department spokesman Drake Madison. The station serves the B Line (formerly Red Line) trains that run from Union Station to North Hollywood. Police said 45-year-old Elliot Tramel Nowden of Los Angeles attacked...