How the Knife That Nearly Killed Salman Rushdie Also Cut Through Every Illusion He Had About the World

How the Knife That Nearly Killed Salman Rushdie Also Cut Through Every Illusion He Had About the World (Picture Credit – Tobias Schwarz)

In 12 August 2022, what began as a public lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in New York turned into an instant horror story. As he prepared to speak, a man rushed the stage and stabbed Salman Rushdie multiple times. The world watched, stunned, as one of literature’s greatest storytellers was pulled, bleeding, from the stage.