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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. . . if we look at writers through the ages we see that they have always been political . . . To deny politics to a writer is to deny him part of his humanity. Cyril Connolly

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