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Book Review: Salman Rushdie’s Knife is a powerful meditation on trauma

The British-American author’s reflections on his brush with death at the hands of an assailant may be uneven, but are compelling nonetheless

Salman Rushdie, whose new book Knife is a powerful memoir about his 2022 attack at the hands of an Islamic fundamentalist. “So it’s you. Here you are,” Salman Rushdie recalls thinking with an artist’s detachment as this “murderous ghost from the past” rushed towards him