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Salman Rushdie has a collection of novellas and short stories coming out this fall

An American-Lebanese man was found guilty by a jury Friday of attempting to kill novelist Salman Rushdie when storming a stage and repeatedly plunging a knife into the "Satanic Verses" author.

Hadi Matar, accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie, chooses not to testify in his defense. Rushdie sustains serious injuries in the attack.

The trial of Hadi Matar, accused of attempting to kill author Salman Rushdie, reaches its conclusion with closing arguments imminent.

Lawyers are set to deliver their closing arguments Friday in the trial of a New Jersey man charged with trying to kill Salman Rushdie on a western New York lecture stage

The New Jersey man on trial in the 2022 stabbing of author Salman Rushdie has declined to testify in his defense

Language can ‘open eyes’, Salman Rushdie wrote, yet still ideas of profanity are being used to silence dissenting voices

Henry Reese, 75, had just sat down to interview Rushdie when the author was stabbed in a frenzied knife attack

A man injured alongside author Salman Rushdie in a knife attack on a New York lecture stage told jurors that he tried to stop the assault once he realized it wasn't a prank and was left with a gash above his eye