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 ...

Reading it is like being at a dinner party with Hanif Kureishi and Hilary Mantel alongside Salman Rushdie and Martin Amis, each trying to speak over the other. All the wine has been drunk.

Reading it is like being at a dinner party with Hanif Kureishi and Hilary Mantel alongside Salman Rushdie and Martin Amis, each trying to speak over the other. All the wine has been drunk.

The radical accused of stabbing author Salman Rushdie blurted “Free Palestine” as he walked into the courtroom on Monday. Hati Matar, the 26-year-old New Jersey man who tried to kill the ...

The radical accused of stabbing famed writer Salman Rushdie in upstate New York in 2022 ambled into court Tuesday, police escort in tow, as his trial kicked off with jury selection. Hati Matar ...

A New York court has heard testimony from Sir Salman Rushdie in the trial of the man accused of stabbing the British-American author and leaving him blind in one eye Warning: This page contains ...

Feb. 10, 2025 The man accused of attacking the author Salman Rushdie appeared to be “on a mission” as he rushed onstage with a knife, a prosecutor said in opening statements in the stabbing ...

Hadi Matar, right, charged with severely injuring author Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack, sits in Chautauqua County court during the first day of jury selection in Mayville, N.Y., Tuesday ...

Jurors will be shown photos and videos from the day of the 2022 attack, when a man rushed onstage at a literary conference in New York and attacked acclaimed novelist Salman Rushdie. The trial of ...