Siding with Rushdie
Christopher Hitchens, 26 October 1989
The Rushdie File
edited by Lisa Appignanesi and Sara Maitland.
Fourth Estate/ICA, 268 pp., £5.95, July 1989,0 947795 84 7 Show More
edited by Lisa Appignanesi and Sara Maitland.
Fourth Estate/ICA, 268 pp., £5.95, July 1989,
CounterBlasts No 4: Sacred Cows
by Fay Weldon.
Chatto, 43 pp., £2.99, July 1989,0 7011 3556 5 Show More
by Fay Weldon.
Chatto, 43 pp., £2.99, July 1989,
Salman Rushdie and the Third World: Myths of the Nation
by Timothy Brennan.
Macmillan, 203 pp., £29.50, September 1989,0 333 49020 7 Show More
by Timothy Brennan.
Macmillan, 203 pp., £29.50, September 1989,
“... his immediate despatch to hell and the ‘moderates’ like the Saudis confining themselves – as Timothy Brennan usefully reminds us – to no more for now but a holy war or jihad against the school known as ‘literary modernisn’. Of course religion is a thing of this world rather than the next, and there have always been, since well before ... ”