Flame-Broiled Whopper

October 2005 review of Shalimar the Clown in The London Book Review by Theo Tait.

In Kashmir, Toxic Love Breeds Terrorism

September 2005 NYTimes Book Review by Michiko Kakutani of Shalimar the Clown.

The Iconoclast

Salman Rushdie discusses free speech, fundamentalism, America’s place in the world, and his new essay collection.

2005 Interview with Shikha Dalmia at Reason magazine.

Bridget Jones's Diary

Salman Rushdie has a brief cameo appearance in Bridget Jones's Diary

Why Plays Fail

Robert Burstein at The New Republic discusses why a staged adaptation of Midnight's Children was doomed.

Cramming this 531-page novel into a three-and-a-half-hour play is tantamount to stuffing a sacred cow into a sausage casing.

A Beacon of Sanity

In an age of religious fanatics, patriotic zealots and self-righteous leftists, Salman Rushdie champions free thinking and fun.

2002 Essay by Michelle Goldberg at Salon.com

Salman Rushdie, Out and About

In the wake of Ayatollah Khomeini's infamous death sentence, Salman Rushdie gained international renown as a champion of free speech and a challenger of fundamentalist hegemony. Among the virtues shrouded by the author's sudden iconic status, however, were a relentless sense of humor and a developing body of fiction virtually unrivaled among contemporary writers.

2002 interview with Dave Weich at Powells.com

Yes, This Is About Islam

"This isn't about Islam." The world's leaders have been repeating this mantra for weeks, partly in the virtuous hope of deterring reprisal attacks on innocent Muslims living in the West, partly because if the United States is to maintain its coalition against terror it can't afford to suggest that Islam and terrorism are in any way related.

The trouble with this necessary disclaimer is that it isn't true.

November 2001 op-ed by Salman Rushdie, in response to 9/11.

The Problem of Being Salman Rushdie

One of the hazards of becoming a Very Famous Novelist is that it allows people who have perhaps never read your books to have views (usually negative) about your writing.

Brief 2001 essay by Inigo Thomas at Slate.

NYTimes Featured Author

1999 page with links to NYTimes reviews up to that date.

We'll break this down and link to the reviews themselves over time.

A Touch of Vulgarity

Salman Rushdie talks about Bob Dylan, Princess Di, the brutality of love, the banality of the rock 'n' roll scene and the end of the fatwa.

A 1999 interview with Laura Miller at Salon.com.

Haroun and the Sea of Stories

by Salman Rushdie

Statement of Purpose

We are addicted to the writings on India's master of magical realism, Salman Rushdie. As we surf interviews with him, reviews and essays on his work, and so forth, we'll link to it here. There will be little commentary and less original writing--this is meant more as a bibliography for future reference than anything else.

We are going to make an effort to date posts to this blog the same as the date of publication of the article we're linking to; however, Blogger dates only go back to 1990, so anything dated 1/1/1990 is really older than that.

For the record, this inaugural post gets the 1/1/1990 date so that it shows up as the earliest post.