At the 2025 Hay Festival, Salman Rushdie revealed that he prefers to ignore the existence of artificial intelligence and confessed he has “never experimented” with it. He thinks writers remain ...

Acclaimed author Salman Rushdie canceled his planned speech at a California college after students protested his appearance.

A man convicted of stabbing award-winning British author Salman Rushdie in 2022 was sentenced on Friday to 25 years in prison, the maximum possible term. Hadi Matar, 27, was found guilty in ...

Hadi Matar was convicted in the 2022 stabbing attack on the author. A New Jersey man convicted of attempted murder in the 2022 stabbing attack on author Salman Rushdie, while on stage at a ...

I read novelist Salman Rushdie’s harrowing account of his near-assassination about a year ago. It’s still etched in my mind. In his memoir “Knife,” Rushdie described in detail how he ...

Salman Rushdie has pinpointed the moment authors should start worrying about AI. Speaking at the 2025 Hay Festival, which has partnered with The Independent f or a second year, Rushdie said he likes ...

The crazed fanatic who tried to stab Salman Rushdie to death on a New York lecture stage — blinding the author in one eye — was sentenced Friday to the maximum term of 25 years in prison.

Hadi Matar, convicted of the 2022 stabbing of Salman Rushdie, faces sentencing on Friday, with prosecutors seeking the maximum of 25 years. Rushdie, who was blinded in one eye during the attack at ...

Looks like Salman Rushdie isn’t losing sleep over AI stealing his job anytime soon, especially if it can’t make people laugh. Speaking at the Hay Festival in Wales, the celebrated author of ...

The original video can be viewed here. 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 ...