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Trial of Salman Rushdie attacker to launch with tricky jury selection

Hadi Matar accused of attempted murder after repeatedly stabbing the author on stage in 2022 in the United States.

Al Jazeera

The man charged with stabbing Salman Rushdie will soon go on trial. The author will take the stand

The New Jersey man charged with severely injuring author Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack is set to stand trial in New York

The Independent UK

Salman Rushdie set to testify as attempted murder trial gets under way

Hadi Matar, 26, accused of stabbing author 10 times in case likely to draw world’s media to tiny upstate New York town

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Zadie Smith on her groundbreaking debut, White Teeth, 25 years on: ‘I never think about my novels a year after I’ve written them’

INTERVIEW: 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 later, the author speaks to Nick Duerden about the book that changed her life

The Independent UK

Top-Down Political Cowardice Helped Make Charlie Hebdo a Lonely Target

From Jimmy Carter to Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama to John Kerry, politicians have led the abandonment of free speech.

Reason

Royal Society of Literature in chaos as director quits amid in-fighting and free speech rows

Dozens of high profile writers including Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro and Dame Marina Warner have all criticised its current leadership

The Independent UK

Royal Society of Literature rocked by departures of director and chair

Molly Rosenberg and Daljit Nagra will both stand down, as the society’s first-ever governance review is due to be published

The Guardian - UK

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10 notable books of 2024, from Sarah J. Maas to Melania Trump

Even through a year of nonstop news about elections, climate change, protests and the price of eggs, Americans still found time to read

The Independent UK

Best books 2024: Our writers pick their favourite reads from 2024

All the books we loved in 2024

Evening Standard

The best biographies and memoirs of 2024

Salman Rushdie’s account of his near-fatal stabbing, a 360-degree view of Queen Elizabeth II and Al Pacino’s rags to riches career are among this year’s most compelling personal histories

The Guardian - UK

"He sent me an email that said, I watched. I laughed. What do I do now?" How David Bowie ended up starring in one of the most memorable TV comedy scenes of all time

Just when you thought you couldn't love David Bowie more, along came his surprise cameo in a hit British comedy series

Louder

Rushdie, Ernaux and Soyinka among authors calling for release of Franco-Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal

Sansal was reportedly arrested on arrival in Algiers on 16 November, with French President Macron demanding information about his whereabouts

The Guardian - UK

35 years after The Satanic Verses controversy, newly unearthed letters reveal some uncomfortable truths

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is famous for his forthright statements to other world leaders. In March 1989, Mahathir wrote a letter to then UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that was blunt even by his standards. Unlike a lot of his angry letters, this one wasn’t published.

The Conversation

The best biographies and memoirs of 2024: Literary It-girls, art world intrigue and sociopathy

THE LIST: Catch up on 2024’s most illuminating life stories, encompassing tales of recovery, literary feuds and devastating betrayal, with Katie Rosseinsky’s edit of the best memoirs and biographies

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Longstanding Ban on Iconic Book Appears No Longer Valid After Someone Lost the Official Order to Censor It

India's three-decade ban on Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses" may be lifted after the government lost the official court order to keep it banned.

The Independent UK

India's ban on Salman Rushdie 'The Satanic Verses' may end — thanks to missing paperwork

The decadeslong ban of Salman Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses” in his native India is now in doubt

The Guardian - UK

Indian import ban on Rushdie’s Satanic Verses to end as no official order found

Government unable to produce ‘untraceable’ notification against 1988 novel when citizen brought matter to court

Al Jazeera

India can import Rushdie’s Satanic Verses after ban order ‘untraceable’

A reader brought the case in 2019 after failing to find official proof of the ban on government websites.

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The Independent UK

India forced to lift decades-long ban on Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses due to bizarre legal loophole

The import of The Satanic Verses was banned in India after controversy erupted over its subject

The Guardian - UK

Shattered by Hanif Kureishi review – broken, bedbound, but unbowed

The author’s memoir recounts his life since the accident that left him paralysed and mixes typically forthright takes on sex and scatology with ruthless candour about his physical state

The Independent UK

Trial of Salman Rushdie's assailant will remain in the New York county where the stabbing happened

An appellate court has denied a request to move the trial of a New Jersey man charged with attacking author Salman Rushdie with a knife in 2022

The Independent UK

Trial on hold for New Jersey man charged in knife attack that injured Salman Rushdie

The attempted murder trial of the man charged with injuring author Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack in New York has been put on hold

International Business Times

Nobel Literature Jury May Go For Non-Western Writer

The Nobel Prize in Literature to be announced on Thursday has mainly gone to Western writers over the years, though this year the Swedish Academy may shine its spotlight further afield, experts say.

The Guardian - UK

Salman Rushdie to publish first work of fiction since 2022 stabbing

The author, who lost an eye as a result of the attack, tells Lviv BookForum he is working on a trilogy of novellas

The Independent UK

Jurors in trial of Salman Rushdie's attacker likely won't hear about his motive

Jurors who will be picked for the trial of a man who severely injured author Salman Rushdie in a knife attack likely won’t hear about the fatwa that authorities have said motivated him to act

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