Languages of Truth

Newly collected revised and expanded nonfiction from the first two decades of the 21st century - including many texts never previously in print - by the Booker Prize-winning internationally best-selling authorLonglisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssaySalman Rushdie is celebrated as “a master of perpetual storytelling” (The New Yorker) illuminating truths about our society and culture through his gorgeous often searing prose. Now in his latest collection of nonfiction he brings together insightful and inspiring essays criticism and speeches that focus on his relationship with the written word and solidify his place as one of the most original thinkers of our time.Gathering pieces written between 2003 and 2020 Languages of Truth chronicles Rushdie’s intellectual engagement with a period of momentous cultural shifts. Immersing the listener in a wide variety of subjects he delves into the nature of storytelling as a human need and what emerges is in myriad ways a love letter to literature itself. Rushdie explores what the work of authors from Shakespeare and Cervantes to Samuel Beckett Eudora Welty and Toni Morrison mean to him whether on the page or in person. He delves deep into the nature of “truth” revels in the vibrant malleability of language and the creative lines that can join art and life and looks anew at migration multiculturalism and censorship.Enlivened by Rushdie’s signature wit and dazzling voice Languages of Truth offers the author’s most piercingly analytical views yet on the evolution of literature and culture even as he takes us on an exhilarating tour of his own exuberant and fearless imagination.