Novelist Salman Rushdie has decided not to deliver the graduation speech for Claremont McKenna College, pulling out days ...

Amber Ruffin, Sarah Jessica Parker and more called for free speech at the 2025 PEN America Literary Gala on May 15 in New ...

Hundreds of writers, editors and publishers have gathered for PEN America’s annual gala hosted by Amber Ruffin and featuring ...

An American-Lebanese man was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Friday for trying to kill novelist Salman Rushdie with a knife at a New York cultural centre in 2022. Hadi Matar, 27, was convicted ...

A man who attacked Salman Rushdie with a knife in front of a stunned audience in 2022, leaving the prizewinning author blind ...

The man who left Salman Rushdie partially blind after stabbing him at a lecture in 2022 was sentenced to 25 years in prison Friday, May 16, The Associated Press reports. Hadi Matar, 27 ...

Salman Rushdie, the author who was nearly murdered three years ago because of a novel he wrote, once articulated what he thought supporting free speech meant: “The defense of free expression ...

The crazed fanatic who tried to stab Salman ... AP Rushdie remains “traumatized,” Schmidt said. “He has nightmares about what he experienced.” Matar — who was born in America but also ...

By Alyce McFadden Reporting from the courtroom in Mayville, N.Y. Published May 16, 2025Updated May 17, 2025, 1:52 a.m. ET The man convicted of trying to stab Salman Rushdie to death was sentenced ...

A man convicted of stabbing Salman Rushdie, leaving the author blind in one eye, has been jailed for 25 years. Hadi Matar was found guilty of attempted murder and assault in February. Prosecutors ...

Rushdie, who was born to non-practising Kashmiri Muslims in India and is himself an atheist, has defended his work on several occasions. Pen International, a writers' association that Rushdie is t ...