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Salman Rushdie has said that the death of Charlie Kirk is a “consequence of America’s terrifying gun culture”.

The British author was speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs.

Salman Rushdie's new book, “The Eleventh Hour,” marks a creative reset for the author

Salman Rushdie’s new collection of short stories urgently recollects his literary legacy. It’s as though time is increasingly uncertain so the need to tell stories is great.

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Author was injured in multiple places and lost use of his right eye after assassination attempt during a lecture

It’s ordinary death — the bloke with a scythe — that stalks these stories, not an assassin

Kiran Desai’s surname was familiar to the world of literature when her second novel, The Inheritance of Loss, won the Man Booker Prize in 2006. Her mother, Anita Desai, was already an accomplished novelist, who had been nominated for the Booker three times. The Inheritance of Loss was hailed as…

From an afterlife fantasy to a tale of loss in Mumbai, death is a recurring theme in this story collection – an echo of the novelist at his peak