‘Why didn’t I fight? Why didn’t I run?’: 10 things we learned from Salman Rushdie’s ‘Knife’

Ella Creamer in The Guardian:

‘At a quarter to eleven on August 12, 2022, on a sunny Friday morning in upstate New York, I was attacked and almost killed by a young man with a knife,” begins Salman Rushdie’s new memoir.

The book, titled Knife, reflects on the attack at the Chautauqua Institution, where the writer was stabbed on stage shortly before giving a talk. It is the first book the Indian-born British-American author has written since the attack, which left him unable to see from his right eye.

Here are 10 things we’ve learned about the attack and Rushdie’s recovery from Knife.

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