“... where Gilbert Phelps in his connected prose, with everything everywhere from the year dot to Salman Rushdie as his portion, is frequently reduced to inoffensive and distantly non-committal generality. Blandness is not a danger for Sutherland. ‘Single authorship risks a high degree of error and bias,’ as he says in the Preface, ‘but sometimes ...”

“... to existing forms of hierarchy, domination, private power and social control’. Salman Rushdie’s importance to the alternative modes I have been discussing is capital. His most recent book is The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey, the record of a two-week trip to Central America in the summer of 1986. Compare ...”

“... called ‘magic realism’, this American speciality – whether adopted by Günter Grass or Salman Rushdie or the authors of the Latin American boom – has been promoted into a genuinely global genre, and we glimpse, outside the confines of an American Programme Era, the outlines of some wholly different world system of letters coming into ...”

“... and prevalent one, and illuminates the attitude of many people in modern France and Europe. As Salman Rushdie put it, ‘Platform is a novel to go to if you want to understand the France beyond the liberal intelligentsia, the France that gave the left such a bloody nose in the last presidential election, and whose discontents and prejudices the ...”

“... back to a not-yet-magic-realist Faulkner (followed by a Commonwealth third generation of which Salman Rushdie is only the most illustrious). Grass’s would be a magic realism which descends from Döblin rather than the chronicler of Yaknapatawpha County; and which at best shares the marginality of the Southern and Third World novelists by virtue of ...”

“... a life lived all the way to the end. Decca continued to make new friends, including Nora Ephron, Salman Rushdie and Hillary Rodham, who she thought was too good for Bill Clinton. She died of cancer at home on 23 July 1996. ‘It is so ODD to be dying,’ she wrote, from her downstairs bedroom to Bob, who was asleep upstairs. ‘I must just jot a few ...”

“... A familiar notion is particularly well-expressed in Salman Rushdie’s novel Shame. The notion is that of history as itself a fiction; the expression is varied. ‘All stories,’ he says as intruding author, ‘are haunted by the ghosts of the stories they might have been.’ And elsewhere:   As for me: I too, like all migrants, am a fantasist ...”

“... in the Salisbury Review. The city became notorious in December 1988 for the public burning of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses. Although not the first group of Muslims to demonstrate their sense of outrage in this fashion (the first burning actually took place in Bolton) it was the Bradfordians who knew how to grab the headlines, by alerting the ...”

“... and with him our taxi. Standing up to go I have my first view of who is being interviewed. It is Salman Rushdie.3 December. The basic London Library fee is now £445.00. My borrowings are so few this works out at £20 per book – and this is an underestimate. I suppose I have to think of it as a contribution to ...”

“... Leo Braudy describes. There is something murderous in our relation to celebrity. On this score, Salman Rushdie would be exceptional only for having had the murderousness precede his status as celebrity rather than the other way around.The response to celebrity always harbours a political subtext. It is often assumed, especially on the left, that ...”

“... think of him as just an author, in the way they think of authors even as popularly eminent as Salman Rushdie or Philip Roth. He’s a trendy-essay-topic catch-all, a figure half fact and half popular-culture fantasy, forever turning up in conspiracy theories and comic strips and on the World Wide Web. He’s an enigma, a beatnik hero. He is, in ...”

“... a feeling also set in that his coloniser-centred writing had been made obsolete by such figures as Salman Rushdie and Timothy Mo, though both were Farrell fans – especially Mo, who in 1990 scuba-dived at the spot where Farrell drowned. Still, he was chiefly commemorated as a writer’s writer – in Derek Mahon’s poems ‘A Disused Shed in ...”

“... the lion itself on a red ribbon which I wear all evening. Spotted (also wearing his lion) is Salman Rushdie. There are half a dozen of us being lionised and we are lined up and photographed and made much of before going upstairs to a magnificent supper, getting home thoroughly knackered around 11. How people lead a social life is beyond me.13 ...”

“... right of free speech it resembles the arguments of those who launched the fatwah against Salman Rushdie.’ Mr Saatchi went on to describe the proposed restrictions as ‘an “adwah” against our right to free expression through advertising’. Referring specifically to the Canadian judgment Saatchi declared his hope that ‘everyone who ...”

“... García Márquez and Machado de Assis and on to The Tale of Genji, and saluting new talent such as Salman Rushdie and Ian McEwan. His own reflection on the extent of his literary travels was characteristic: ‘I am appalled by the amount I have read.’ His two volumes of autobiography were among the most popular and successful of his books, especially A ...”