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...most eagerly anticipated novels, one has been marketed as its internationally-acclaimed author’s “American novel,” and the other has been frequently, almost carelessly, associated with that portentous label of “Great American Novel.” Salman Rushdie’s Fury is his first novel since he received his new, fatwa-free lease on life, and is set in New York City; Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections is his first novel since he so boldly claimed in the pages of Harper’s to have...
Acclaimed novelist Salman Rushdie offered his thoughts on the writing craft to a packed audience Thursday night at the First Parish Church in Harvard Square...
...British don't understand their own history, because so much of it happened overseas. - Salman Rushdie...
...1980s and 1990s amid political turbulence in the Congo Republic, Matapari’s childhood is one where government upheavals are played out on television, where Coca-Cola infiltrates local grocery markets and where Dragonball Z and Terminator movies have as much clout as provincial folklore. As in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children and, more locally, the Nigerian novel Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga, Matapari’s childhood, from his “miraculous” birth in 1980 through the beginnings of Congo’s 1997 civil war, mirrors the nation?...
...shocked that the destruction of statues by the Taliban aroused more of an outcry than the lack of aid being sent to Afghanistan by the West. Has the world become so inhumane that it cares more about lifeless statues than dying, innocent children? SALMAN MURTAZA Karachi...