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Coincidentally, Monday was also the day I stopped by the Harvard Book Store to buy tickets to see Salman Rushdie speak at the First Parish Church that evening, only to find that the event was already sold...
...controversial war later, a few works are starting to hang flesh on those stick villains. In addition to Syriana and Sleeper Cell, there's The War Within, a film about a plan to blow up New York City's Grand Central Terminal, and Paradise Now, about Palestinian suicide bombers. Salman Rushdie has taken up the subject in his latest novel, Shalimar the Clown...
...entire life savings and hefty loans from the bank and his brother--on conventional wisdom's being wrong. The owner since 1977 of Cody's Books, a Berkeley, Calif., institution that was tear-gassed in the '60s and bombed in 1989 in response to its commitment to sell Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, Ross has spent the past three years in the red. Rather than follow the Meg Ryan route (in the 1998 movie You've Got Mail, Ryan's character closes her cozy kids' bookstore, unable to compete with the chain around the corner), Ross decided to fight back...
...pages that comprise Salman Rushdie’s latest novel, “Shalimar the Clown,” he carries us spellbound from Hinduism to Nazism, Krishna to Allah, and Kashmir to California. Along the way, he examines and shatters traditional notions of love, vengeance, nationalism, seduction, and betrayal. By the end of this journey, Rushdie forces readers to realize that when all masks and motives are stripped away, there are no winners and losers, only interconnected individuals with a present to be lived and a past to be learned and retold. Throughout, Rushdie uses a subtle, potent...
...received in parentheses.#1: Noam Chomsky (4,827) #2: Umberto Eco (2,464) #3: Richard Dawkins (2,188) #4: Vaclav Havel (1,990) #5: Christopher Hitchens (1,844)#6: Paul Krugman (1,746) #7: Jurgen Habermas (1,639) #8: Amartya Sen (1,590) #9: Jared Diamond (1,499) #10: Salman Rushdie (1,468) Harvard’s BESTHarvard had 10 names on a list of top public intellectuals chosen by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines, with the number of votes received in the online poll in parentheses.#8: Amartya Sen (1,590) #26: Steven Pinker (812) #28: Samuel Huntington...