Knife

On the morning of August 12 2022 Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution preparing to give a lecture on the importance of keeping writers safe from harm when a man wearing black clothes and a black mask rushed down the aisle toward him wielding a knife. His first thought: So it’s you. Here you are.What followed was a horrific act of violence that shook the literary world and beyond. Now for the first time and in unforgettable detail Rushdie relives the traumatic events ...See More