Salman Rushdie

Author says he was phoned by Swedish Academy number shortly before announcement

Writers including Salman Rushdie criticise the 2019 Nobel laureate over support for ‘genocidal regime of Slobodan Miloševic’

We all have our own Oz, be it fame, money or love. For immigrant families like mine, it is usually an actual place

Natalie Portman has disputed the musician’s account of their ‘relationship’. But fear not: his new book has plenty more steamy stories

Despite its ‘mistakes, lapses, and occasional acts of cowardice’, Europe remains ‘the second home of every free man and woman’

Since Chaucer there has been a rich tradition of writers inspired by religious buildings

‘On Chesil Beach is about a young, sexually inexperienced couple on a miserable honeymoon

The Oscar-winning actor’s foray into fiction, with Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff, has met derision online. Can it be that bad?

Fitzmaurice's memoir 'I Found My Tribe' is a joyful and raw account of life after her husband’s MND diagnosis

Fisher’s final acting role was in Horgan’s TV show, ‘Catastrophe’. The night before the Hollywood legend returned to LA, they went for dinner. Here, Horgan recalls that evening, and their friendship

We all have the right to offend but not a licence to be coarse and vulgar

Many in Saudi Arabia privately agree with cleric who questions tenets of Wahhabism

There has been a breakdown of European ethics in favour of bourgeois security

‘A Brief History of Seven Killings’ is based on attempt to kill reggae king Bob Marley

Documentary maker Mark Walsh finally felt he had to intervene, and now works for MSF

Like many good summer reads, these three novels are moving page-turners, but their headlong dive into the dark challenge the notion of sun-holiday fiction