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...Salman Rushdie hadn't been sentenced to death by Ayatullah Khomeini and if he weren't chummy with the likes of Kylie Minogue, he would be famous merely for being one of the world's greatest living writers. He chats with TIME's Lev Grossman about his new novel, Shalimar the Clown (coming in September), the crisis in Kashmir, the nature of tragedy and the future of the Klingon race...
...Human Rights Commission resolved in April to combat what it called "defamation campaigns against Islam and Muslims in the West." In Italy, journalist Oriana Fallaci has been ordered to stand trial for vilifying Islam in a recent book. Britain is also considering a law against religious hate speech. Author Salman Rushdie, whom Iranian clerics once ordered killed for maligning Islam, called the law an "attempt to placate British Muslim spokesmen, in whose eyes just about any critique of Islam is offensive...
...mantra, and a wall-to-wall reception in the vast Egyptian wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Milling around the reconstructed Temple of Dendur, star watchers could search for the Santa Claus figure of Canadian Novelist Robertson Davies and eavesdrop on the exquisite ironies of Indian-born Novelist Salman Rushdie. Beside the reflecting pool, the gifted throng could contemplate the imaginations of two great states: a perfect theocracy that maintained its inflexible slave system even in the afterlife, and a permanently unfinished republic whose contentious factions offer possibilities still to be imagined. --By R.Z. Sheppard. Reported by Dean Brelis...
...past, McEwan wanted his next book to engage fully with the world after 9/11. "The present," he says, "had become horribly interesting." Horribly interesting is also not a bad way to describe most of McEwan's work. Among his generation of British writers--Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Salman Rushdie--McEwan always stood out as the one with the morbid streak. His early short stories brought to nasty behavior and abnormal psychology the full resources of literary nuance. Then came his first novel, The Cement Garden, in 1978, about four children who have buried their mother in the basement...
...dollars - for all seven seats up for grabs on the Riyadh city council. They were better organized, emphasizing their technocratic skills while having the word spread via sms cell-phone messages and popular Islamic Internet sites. And they had the key backing of militant Islamic leaders, notably Sheikh Salman al Awdah, jailed for five years in the mid-'90s for opposing the Saudi monarchy. "They will make the country more conservative, while we want it to open up," says Mohammed Al Ammari, one of the defeated liberal candidates. "We have to open our minds and be part of the world...