The dawn bus brought Miss Rehana to the gates of the British Embassy. When the advice expert Muhammad Ali saw her beauty, he went over to offer her advice,…
Good Advice is Rarer Than Rubies
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Christopher Columbus and Queen Isabella of Spain Consummate Their Relationship, Santa Fe, January, 1492
Columbus arrives as a supplicant at the court of Queen Isabella of Spain, hoping for cash and three tall ships. When the Queen asks him what he desires, he…
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“The Wizard of Oz”
Salman Rushdie on the 1939 M-G-M film—his “very first literary influence.”
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Chekov and Zulu
Zulu and Chekov, who got their nicknames from their lifelong devotion to "Star Trek," are Sikhs working as diplomats at India House in London. ("Zulu" …
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HEAVY THREADS
PERSONAL HISTORY about writer's experience in 1967, when he rented a room in London directly above a legendary boutique--legendary at the time--called …
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IN DEFENSE OF THE NOVEL, YET AGAIN
ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS about the novel... At the centenary conference of the British Publishers' Association, Professor George Steiner said, …
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(or, Places Called Mama's)
SHOUTS & MURMURS about meaningless naming... For the first time since the decline of Dadaism, we are witnessing a revival in the fine art of meaningless …
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ON LEAVENED BREAD
FOOD about bread... There was leavened bread in Bombay, but it was sorry fare: dry, crumbling, tasteless--unleavened bread's paler, unluckier relative.…
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The Firebird's Nest
Mr. Maharaj, a powerless prince, has brought his American bride-to-be to his palace in India. There is a terrible drought. Mr. Maharaj talks of the …
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DAMME, THIS 1S THE ORIENTAL SCENE FOR YOU!
LIFE AND LETTERS about Indian literature... Contemporary Indian literature remains largely unknown in the United States, in spite of its considerable …
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CRASH
REFLECTIONS connecting Princess Diana's death to the themes of "Crash." It is one of the darker ironies of a dark event that the themes and ideas …
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My Unfunny Valentine
PERSONAL HISTORY about the writer's thoughts on the 10th anniversary of the sentence of death issued against him by the late Ayatollah Khomeini for his…
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Vina Divina
After her death in a Mexican earthquake, the aging pop singer Vina Apsara becomes a cult figure. Her old friend tries to come to terms with her death by …
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The People’s Game
OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS about the writer’s life-long love affair with soccer, and his keen enthusiasm for the famous North London team, Tottenham …
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Letter From India
LETTER FROM INDIA about the writer’s recent visit to India... Before the Partition massacres of 1947, my parents left Delhi and moved south, correctly …
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The Shelter of the World
Reporting, Profiles, daily news, cultural coverage, podcasts, videos, and cartoons from The New Yorker.
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“In the South”
Fiction by Salman Rushdie: “To him the waves were Death itself and needed no other name.”
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On Censorship
No writer ever really wants to talk about censorship. Writers want to talk about creation, and censorship is anti-creation, negative energy, uncreation, …
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The Disappeared
How the fatwa changed a writer’s life.
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The Greatness of Günter Grass
Grass was the great dancer of German literature, dancing across history’s horrors toward literature’s beauty.
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“The Duniazát”
New fiction by Salman Rushdie: “Being a man of reason, Ibn Rushd did not guess that the girl was a supernatural creature, a jinnia.”
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Truth, Lies, and Literature
Salman Rushdie writes that, historically, the truth has always been a contested idea, but that literature has the power to make people agree on the truths of the great constant: human nature.
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