Salman Rushdie: When I die, I know there will...

Nina Conti has built a career out of saying the unsayable, turning ventriloquism, improvisation and audience interaction into something far stranger, deeper and more daring than anyone expected. From early struggles with shyness and self-doubt to creating a completely original fo ...  Show more

Russell T Davies has spent a career changing what British television can be, moving from children’s drama to fearless queer storytelling and one of the nation’s most enduring cultural institutions, Doctor Who. Whether reinventing Saturday night television, capturing the emotional ...  Show more

This week, as the world has been reacting to the shocking news of the attack on the author Sir Salman Rushdie at a book event in New York State, The Cultural Frontline asks what this attack means for the world of writers and publishing and what it says about freedom of expression ...  Show more

Salman Rushdie’s 1988 novel, “The Satanic Verses,” made him the target of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who denounced the book as blasphemous and issued a fatwa c ...

Salman Rushdie, internationally bestselling author and ‘Best of the Booker’ winner, is a storyteller of the highest order, illuminating truths about our society and culture through his dazzling prose. Best known as a novelist, he is also a compelling essayist and last month he ca ...  Show more

أمضى حياته في مغامرات الحروب والثّورات، وفي النّهاية قتله شِعره. كان يلقّب باسم أعشى هَمْدان، وأوّل الأخبار التي تناقلتها الحكايات عنه، أنّ الحجاج بن يوسف الثّقفيّ، أرسله للقتال مع جيشه لغزو بلاد الدّيلم، فوقع أسيراً في أيدي الأعداء، بعد قتال واستماتة منه للبقاء على قيد الحياة، و ...  Show more