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Salman Rushdie reveals Lou Reed told him famous song was intended for a musical

The British author was speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs.

Evening Standard · Nov 23, 2025

Salman Rushdie reveals unique origin of iconic song by close friend Lou Reed

‘It’s kind of extraordinary to be able to say that I was friends with Lou Reed’ says author who was obsessed with the musician as a student

The Independent UK · Nov 23, 2025

Memoirs, myths and Midnight’s Children: Salman Rushdie’s 10 best books – ranked!

As the author publishes a new story collection, we rate the work that made his name – from his dazzling Booker winner to an account of the 2022 attack that nearly killed him

The Guardian - UK · Nov 17, 2025

First Thing: Top 10 US billionaires’ wealth grew by $698bn in past year

Oxfam says Trump policies risk driving inequality to new heights while noting Democrats have also exacerbated wealth gap. Plus, why Salman Rushdie’s therapist has called him a ‘badass’

The Guardian - UK · Nov 3, 2025

Salman Rushdie says even he is surprised he doesn’t have PTSD symptoms after 2022 attack

Author was injured in multiple places and lost use of his right eye after assassination attempt during a lecture

The Guardian - US · Nov 3, 2025

Salman Rushdie on death: funny and full of life

It’s ordinary death — the bloke with a scythe — that stalks these stories, not an assassin

Evening Standard · Nov 1, 2025

Kiran Desai’s first novel in nearly 20 years is shortlisted for the Booker. Last time, she won it

Kiran Desai’s surname was familiar to the world of literature when her second novel, The Inheritance of Loss, won the Man Booker Prize in 2006. Her mother, Anita Desai, was already an accomplished novelist, who had been nominated for the Booker three times. The Inheritance of Loss was hailed as…

The Conversation · Oct 28, 2025

The Eleventh Hour by Salman Rushdie – a haunting coda to a groundbreaking career

From an afterlife fantasy to a tale of loss in Mumbai, death is a recurring theme in this story collection – an echo of the novelist at his peak

The Guardian - UK · Oct 28, 2025

Sir Salman Rushdie: I will never be reconciled with injuries from knife attack

He was left blind in one eye from the attack in New York.

Evening Standard · Oct 27, 2025

Queen pays tribute to Dame Jilly Cooper at literary festival

Camilla quoted the ‘queen of the bonkbuster’ who has died aged 88.

Evening Standard · Oct 11, 2025