The Latest Breaking News from Salman Rushdie

Publisher Vintage has ordered a reprint following rush to buy the 1988 novel in the wake of the attack on the author earlier this month

The bestselling author and TV writer is about to release his 56th book. He speaks to Hannah Stephenson about the role of social media in spreading ‘harmful’ views, his belief that writers are self-censoring, and how his wife Hill is his most important critic

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's fatwa against the author Salman Rushdie in 1989 made clear that the greatest threat to artists, intellectuals and journalists in the modern era comes from authoritarian states. In recent years, the latter have increasingly outsourced violence to murky non-state actors. This grim trend has been underscored by…

As Khamenei crows over Rushdie, Biden seeks a revived pact. But make no mistake: this poisonous regime will always need its Great Satan

The attack on the author of The Satanic Verses has been universally condemned. It has not always been thus

Ricky Gervais has reportedly hired his own security guards for a series of intimate performances in London following news that author Sir Salman Rushdie had been stabbed at an event last week

After our interview, he offered to take me there even though he clearly had no idea where he was going

Last week’s attack on author Salman Rushdie and the indictment of an Iranian national in a plot to kill former national security adviser John Bolton have given the Biden administration new headaches as it attempts to negotiate a return to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. A resolution may be…

The attack on Salman Rushdie in New York state on August 12 highlights the plight of other writers threatened with death, who are forced to live every moment in a state of fear. FRANCE 24 takes a look at numerous writers around the world who have received death threats.