Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

Salman Rushdie

Surviving, Thriving – Salman Rushdie covers a lot of ground in this page-turning book. He recounts, in detail, the August 2022 attempt to assassinate him on stage at the Chautauqua Institution in western New York. He sings of love and free expression. He reflects on the meaning of life, the facts of death. He comes face-to-face with some chilling, murderous ideas and people, and then, a few pages later, makes you laugh aloud. This is a provocative memoir, insightfully told by one of our time’s great writers, and made possible by love – and modern medicine. Not a bad combo.