Salman Rushdie: “The world has abandoned realism”
The novelist on the threat to free speech, facing his attacker, and why writing Knife gave him back “the power”.
ByThe novelist on the threat to free speech, facing his attacker, and why writing Knife gave him back “the power”.
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By Erica WagnerThe late novelist’s extraordinary talent was to take our collective history and make it new.
By Erica WagnerRushdie knows how vital, how serious the business of storytelling is. Yet in my encounters with him he never…
By Erica WagnerWithdrawn and prejudiced, the poet is hard to warm to – but Robert Crawford’s new biography shows how Eliot’s…
By Erica Wagner