POLITICS: Salman Rushdie Says He Has Thought About Visiting His Stabber

Four years after an extremist stabbed him, Salman Rushdie mulls visiting his attacker

Four years after a radical Islamist stabbed Salman Rashdie, the author tells The Post that he has considered visiting the criminal in jail. He reflects on his journey as captured in Alex Gibney's "Knife."

POLITICS: Salman Rushdie says he has thought about visiting his stabber

Beginning on Valentine’s Day of 1989, the Booker Prize winning author Salman Rushdie had a sword hanging over his head. For a period of time, threats of death followed him everywhere. The bloody culmination of his life spent alternately on the run and in public — with near-lethal consequences — is captured in “Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie,” a new documentary about Rushdie, his marriage and the dangers of fanaticism. Plagued by t…

Salman Rushdie: I long for the demolition of Trump’s vanity ballroom and legacy

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Matthew d'Ancona's culture: How Salman Rushdie rose again

Alex Gibney’s documentary Knife shows the “wounded happiness” of a writer returning in triumph to the venue where he was nearly killed

Knife highlights the human tragedy of Salman Rushdie’s stabbing

Director Alex Gibney’s documentary offers an intimate, nuanced and moving view of the author’s life after the shocking 2022 attack