The Satanic Verses & Rushdie’s Knighthood

3rd July 2007 with 0 Comments

The Kenyon Review has an interesting piece on Politics and Literature and attempts to place Salman Rushdie’s most controversial novel in context:
Virtually all recent accounts of the Rushdie affair contain a note of impatience about the book at the center of the controversy: important, yes, but do we really have to read it? [...]

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