Salman Rushdie has come to terms with the attempt on his life the only way he knows: by writing about it in a book. He ...

Sir Salman Rushdie says he has moved on from the knife attack which has seen his attacker jailed for attempted murder. Hadi ...

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 secure ...

Booker Prize-winning novelist Salman Rushdie is reflecting on the stabbing that occurred during a lecture he was giving in ...

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

Salman Rushdie says writers shouldn't fear AI — yet — because it still lacks a key human trait: humour. He says that the day ...

Two recent flare-ups over commencement speeches show how difficult—and necessary—truly defending free expression is.

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 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 ...

Hadi Matar, the defendant, said he believed Mr. Rushdie to be a hypocrite. His attack left the acclaimed author blind in one ...

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 ...

Novelist Salman Rushdie has decided not to deliver the graduation speech for Claremont McKenna College, pulling out days ...