The Latest Breaking News from Salman Rushdie

Hadi Matar accused of attempted murder after repeatedly stabbing the author on stage in 2022 in the United States.

The New Jersey man charged with severely injuring author Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack is set to stand trial in New York

Hadi Matar, 26, accused of stabbing author 10 times in case likely to draw world’s media to tiny upstate New York town

INTERVIEW: The Cambridge student was only 24 when she released her ostentatious debut. Critics and fellow writers fell over themselves with enthusiasm, hailing Smith the voice of fiction’s future. Now, 25 years later, the author speaks to Nick Duerden about the book that changed her life

From Jimmy Carter to Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama to John Kerry, politicians have led the abandonment of free speech.

Dozens of high profile writers including Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro and Dame Marina Warner have all criticised its current leadership

Molly Rosenberg and Daljit Nagra will both stand down, as the society’s first-ever governance review is due to be published

Even through a year of nonstop news about elections, climate change, protests and the price of eggs, Americans still found time to read

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