In his new memoir, Salman Rushdie writes about the young man who leapt from the audience and stabbed and almost killed him in August of 2022. He also describes his love for his wife, Eliza.
Myah Ariel's debut is like a fizzy, angsty mash-up of Bolu Babalola and Kennedy Ryan as the challenges of doing meaningful work in Hollywood threaten two young lovers' romantic reunion.
https://npr.org/2024/04/18/1245560837/myah-ariel-debut-romance-novel-when-i-think-of-you
Salman Rushdie is probably most closely associated with his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses, a book inspired by the life of the prophet Muhummad. The book was notorious not just for its contents bu...
https://npr.org/2024/04/17/1198911267/salman-rushdie-memoir-knife-interview-near-death
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Salman Rushdie about his new book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder.
Alua Arthur helps people plan for death. A big part of her work is helping them reconcile the lives they lived with the lives they might have wanted. Her memoir is called Briefly Perfectly Human.
https://npr.org/2024/04/17/1245264129/death-doula-alua-arthur-briefly-perfectly-human
These new books will take you from murder in present-day Texas to cryptography in Cold War Berlin to an online community that might hold the solution to a missing-person case.
Salman Rushdie is a storyteller. So when you ask him to describe the day, in 2022, when he was attacked and nearly killed by a young man with a knife, Rushdie paints a vivid picture.
https://npr.org/2024/04/17/1243745884/salman-rushdie-knife-attack-memoir
A new museum in Kansas City is designed for kids to be immersed in their favorite books, including classics like Goodnight Moon.
https://npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2024/04/17/1242760712/kansas-city-childrens-museum-books
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks to journalist David Sanger about his new book, New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, And America's Struggle To Defend The West.
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Adam Moss, author of The Work of Art: How Something Comes From Nothing.