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Page-Turner, June 13, 2019

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Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” is humane enough to allow, at the end of the horror that is its subject, for the possibility of hope.

I first read “Slaughterhouse-Five” in 1972, three years after it was published and three years before I published my own first novel. I was twenty-five years old. 1972 was the year of inching slowly toward the Paris Peace Accords, which were supposed to end th...

A 2015 TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival) Official Selection, Kasra Farahani depicts a vision of dictatorship, suspicion, and overthrow, featuring Salman Rushdie’s reading of Donald Barthelme’s classic short story by the same name, “Concerning the Bodyguard.”

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Salman Rushdie discusses his book, The Golden House, which was published last month. He spoke with Paul Holdengräber at LIVE from the NYPL on October 3, 2017.

Clip from Rear Window, referenced in the opening of the converasation:

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Illustration by Chloe Cushman for the New York Times

THE OLD DRIFT
By Namwali Serpell

Something is happening in African literature: The women are coming. For decades now, a river of original and important writing by female authors has been flowing out of that continent — books by writers such as Marlene van Niekerk, of whose second novel Liesl Schillinger wrote in these pages, “books like ‘Agaat’ … are the reason people read novels”; Tsitsi Dangarembga (“Nervous Conditions”); and, of course,...

Quichotte, an ageing traveling salesman obsessed with the “unreal real” of TV, falls in impossible love with a queen of the screen and sets off to drive across America on a picaresque quest to prove himself worthy of her hand; accompanied, in the passenger seat, by the son he has imagined into being. In Rushdie’s masterpiece, Quichotte’s story is also the story of a deranged time, the “Age of Anything Can Happen,” and deals, along the way, with father-son relationships, sibling quarrels, unf...

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
Written by Salman RushdieUnabridged Audiobook Download | Random House Audio | Fiction - Magical Realism; Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Folklore | $20.00 | 978-1-101-92669-7 (1-101-92669-4)

From Salman Rushdie, one of the great writers of our time, comes a spellbinding novel that blends history, mythology, and a timeless love story. A lush modern fairytale in which our world has been plunged into an age of unreason, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is a breathtaking achievement and an enduring testament to the power of storytelling.

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
Written by Salman RushdieUnabridged Compact Disc | Random House Audio | Fiction - Magical Realism; Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Folklore | $40.00 | 978-1-101-92668-0 (1-101-92668-6)

From Salman Rushdie, one of the great writers of our time, comes a spellbinding novel that blends history, mythology, and a timeless love story. A lush modern fairytale in which our world has been plunged into an age of unreason, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is a breathtaking achievement and an enduring testament to the power of storytelling.

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights A Novel
Written by Salman RushdieeBook, 304 pages | Random House | Fiction - Magical Realism; Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Folklore | $12.99 | 978-0-8129-9892-4 (0-8129-9892-8)

From Salman Rushdie, one of the great writers of our time, comes a spellbinding novel that blends history, mythology, and a timeless love story. A lush modern fairytale in which our world has been plunged into an age of unreason, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is a breathtaking achievement and an enduring testament to the power of storytelling.