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Rushdie’s new book, “The Enchantress of Florence,” is a feast of storytelling, alternately set in 16th-century Italy and India.

Salman Rushdie’s multi-layered novel, three types of postmodernism identified, and Stuff White People Like.

Nawaz Sharif, the man most likely to become Pakistan’s next prime minister has set two priorities: Boosting his country’s economy, and peace for Pakistan. Journalist Beenish Ahmed tells host Marco Werman that Sharif has some worrisome comments for the US.

The British author was scheduled to speak this weekend at India’s largest literary festival organized in the northwestern city of Jaipur.

When it came to writing his new children’s book, Luka and the Fire of Life, the novelist Salman Rushdie stuck with his attraction to moody themes. “I’ve always liked writing that slightly writes against the grain of what it’s supposed to be doing,” he tells Kurt. “So if it’s a kind of dark thing you […]