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This isn’t controversial stuff. Democracy, human rights and civil liberties are good. North Korea selling missiles is evil. Iran arming Palestinian terrorists: evil. Saddam Hussein gassing Kurds, making anthrax and training commando teams to hijack planes (as he did in the Salman Pak neighborhood of Baghdad): very evil. And there is a great big Evil, with a capital “E,” common to all three nations: weapons of mass destruction. Each of these countries is building weapons that, were they to fall into the hands of terrorists or hostile regimes, would threaten...
...fixes you with his famous pay-attention-here stare and furrows his Salman Rushdie eyebrows: "We believe the next great era is for the personal computer to be the digital hub of all these devices...
These themes have been treated elsewhere—most flamboyantly, by Salman Rushdie in East, West and The Satanic Verses. In Naipaul’s younger days, he had a sense of humor as sharp as Rushdie’s, but always muted by wry restraint. By now this restraint has entirely choked away the humor in Naipaul’s fiction, as well as much of the dark gravity that made Naipaul’s post-comic fiction so attractive. The final section, with its political uncertainty and sense of alienation, faintly resembles a low-key A Bend...
...book by Salman Rushdie is a cause for celebration, always. He is one of the most immensely talented writers of his generation, and ever since his first, unremarked novel Grimus, he has exercised his talent judiciously and to devastating effect. Although he has been writing for 20 years, this is only his eighth novel, and he has received many of the highest literary honors in the world. His first world-class novel, Midnight’s Children, won the “Booker of Bookers” prize and established his teeming, magical and mythological style, which somehow never lost...
...Salman Rushdie...