Public Square

The Wounded Happiness of Salman Rushdie

What it takes to be a writer in the time of hate. Rushdie returns to that August morning in 2022 when he almost died under the knife of a man inspired by the late Ayatollah Khomeini’s death decree against the author

Forecast 2024: Life and Past Times

Memoirs, histories and investigations that see anew

Editor’s Note

Salman Rushdie Comes Home

Words sustain life in his new novel set in India. It’s a fairy tale of the present accentuated by history and mythology, written by a storyteller schooled in the epic Fabulism of the East

Steeped In the Fabulous

An epic time-travelling novel by Salman Rushdie and other mysteries

Persian Discontent

Salman Rushdie’s prophecy and the second Iranian revolution

Holy Horrors

Salman Rushdie and the dangers of raising difficult questions

Passing the Rushdie Test

Hindutva and Swaraj X

Let’s Talk about Rushdie

Hindutva and Swaraj IX