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Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie Doesn’t Want to Be Your ‘Free Speech Barbie’

March 14, 2026

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The Ruthless Benevolence of a Great Editor

February 26, 2026

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Book Recommendations

Six Books You Can Get Lost In

January 6, 2026

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Shutting Down Salman Rushdie Is Not Going to Help

May 19, 2025

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Hanif Kureishi’s Relentlessly Revealing Memoir

March 2025 Issue

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Salman Rushdie Strikes Back

April 16, 2024

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The Miraculous Salman Rushdie

Judith Shulevitz

March 2023 Issue

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The Move to Eradicate Disagreement

September 11, 2022

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Rushdie’s Challenge to Islamic Orthodoxy

Robert F. Worth

August 23, 2022

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America’s Fire Sale: Get Some Free Speech While You Can

Caitlin Flanagan

August 23, 2022

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The Immortal Salman Rushdie

Bernard-Henri Lévy

August 17, 2022

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Salman Rushdie, Offense, and Artistic Expression

Xochitl Gonzalez

August 16, 2022

Free Speech Can’t Survive as an Abstraction

August 16, 2022

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Salman Rushdie and the Cult of Offense

August 14, 2022

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To Support Salman Rushdie, Just Read Him

August 13, 2022

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All Because Salman Rushdie Wrote a Book

August 12, 2022

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The Prophet’s Hair

September 1981 Issue

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