Freedom to Read Week 2025: On the enduring importance of standing up against attempts to suppress books
As we are witnessing on a global scale, it is all too easy to lose the essential freedoms we in a democratic society take for granted.
Paul Auster, Brooklyn’s postmodernist par excellence, dies at 77
Auster has been called many things: "the most meta of metafictional writers," "the patron saint of literary Brooklyn," a "literary superstar."
Salman Rushdie’s terse memoir offers a highly personal reckoning with the public attack that almost claimed his life
"Art is not a luxury. It stands at the essence of our humanity, and it asks for no special protection except the right to exist."
Fable and allegory combine in Victory City, Salman Rushdie’s masterful new novel
Victory City reads like a defiant rebuke to those who work to suppress words and ideas.
Still recovering from last year’s near-fatal public attack, Salman Rushdie releases new novel
The book's release seems like more than just the appearance of new work from a novelist regularly deemed one of the world's most important living writers.
Iran blames Rushdie for public attack; Scotland police investigating a threat to J.K. Rowling
An online poster told Rowling, "don't worry you are next."
“The final victory of the censor”: What is at stake in the Salman Rushdie assault
"This is the final victory of the censor: when people cease to be able to imagine a non-censorious society."
Early reports indicate Salman Rushdie attacked in New York
The author, who spent years in the 1980s and ’90s in hiding from an Iranian death sentence, was preparing to give a speech when he was assaulted.