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Salman Rushdie has been a marked man for nearly half his life. In 1989 Iran's leader Ayatollah Khomeini declared his novel, "The Satanic Verses," blasphemous, an insult to Islam, and called for ...
Hadi Matar was found guilty of second-degree attempted murder and second-degree assault after a two-week trial in February in ...
In this Feb. 21, 2025, file photo, Hadi Matar, left, charged with severely injuring author Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack, is led in to Chautauqua County court in Mayville, N.Y.
Hadi Matar got the maximum sentence for attempted murder. He was found guilty in February for repeatedly stabbing author Salman Rushdie during a 2022 lecture and wounding another person on stage.
The Iran crisis of the past two weeks isn’t just about nuclear weapons — it’s also an urgent reminder that border security is national security. Tehran’s terrorist agents are a weapon with a much ...
From surreal fables to searing memoirs, Salman Rushdie has spent the last decade defying expectations. As he turns 78, we ...
MAYVILLE, N.Y. — Salman Rushdie was so stunned when a masked man started to stab him on a stage in western New York that the author didn't even try to fight back, a prosecutor said Monday during ...
Salman Rushdie has a collection of novellas and short stories coming out this fall. It’s his first published fiction since being stabbed repeatedly and hospitalized in 2022.
Salman Rushdie has a collection of novellas and short stories coming out this fall. It's his first published fiction since being stabbed repeatedly and hospitalized in 2022.
Hadi Matar, right, charged with severely injuring author Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack, is led in to Chautauqua County court in Mayville, N.Y., on Feb. 10. Adrian Kraus/AP hide caption ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Salman Rushdie has a collection of novellas and short stories coming out this fall, his first published fiction since being stabbed repeatedly and hospitalized in 2022. Random ...
Salman Rushdie says writers shouldn't fear AI — yet — because it still lacks a key human trait: humour. He says that the day AI will write a funny book, that day writers will have to worry about it.