Book Review: Salman Rushdie’s ‘Languages of Truth’

Book Review: Salman Rushdie’s ‘Languages of Truth’

Salman Rushdie during an interview with Reuters in 2012. (Paul Hackett/Reuters)

His new essay collection vies for attention through studied insults of sacred cows.

Even all these years after Salman Rushdie dominated headlines following the fatwa declared against him for his alleged anti-Islam blasphemy in the 1988 novel The Satanic Verses, the name still evokes for some readers a figure straddling the realms of literature and political drama. Some admire Rushdie as an author who did not just pay lip service…

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