Salman Rushdie says AI won’t threaten authors until it can make people laugh

Salman Rushdie has said that authors are safe from the threat of AI – until the moment it can create a book that makes people laugh. Speaking at the Hay festival in Hay-on-Wye, Wales, Rushdie said he had “never tried AI” and liked to pretend it didn’t …

Salman Rushdie: The 60 Minutes Interview

Salman Rushdie says he is 'over' knife attack as author reveals 'important moment' he returned to New York lecture stage ...

By JADA BAS Published: 20:49 EDT, 1 June 2025 | Updated: 21:04 EDT, 1 June 2025 Sir Salman Rushdie has said he is 'over' the horrific knife attack that blinded him in one eye after his attacker was jailed. Hadi Matar, 27, was sentenced last month …

'I'm over knife attack,' says Salman Rushdie

Emma SaundersCulture reporter at the Hay Festival ShareSave Salman Rushdie was warmly welcomed at the event on Sunday Sir Salman Rushdie says he has moved on from the knife attack which has seen his attacker jailed for attempted murder. Hadi Matar, 27, was …

Salman Rushdie reveals moment he thinks writers will be ‘screwed’ by AI

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I am ‘over my attack’ and have found closure, says Salman Rushdie

Sir Salman Rushdie has said he is “over” the attack on his life and revealed how writing a ghost story about EM Forster was his way back to creating fiction. The author said he achieved “closure” over the attack in 2022 after he finished his memoir, Knife, …

Free speech—India’s biggest test

The truest test of an evolved, flourishing and mature democracy is not its electoral culture, or the right of every citizen to vote, or a diverse political system, but where it stands on the scale of freedom of expression. On a scale ranging from absolute …

Larry Lamb: ‘I don’t have time to talk to idiots or watch rubbish TV’

The box set I’m hooked on Landman. It represents the time I worked in the oil fields of Libya. My guiltiest cultural pleasure Every second I get older makes every next second even more precious. I don’t have time to talk to idiots, watch television that’s …

Author Ian shares skills

Jim Fagan Coast writer Ian Laver was a builder and made timber furniture in the years before he retired from his job as a workplace assessor. He is still in the construction business, however, this time building plots for his novels plus sharing his …

Twenty-Seven Years on from The Satanic Verses: Can Works of Fiction be Political?

On the 16th May, the man who stabbed author Salman Rushdie following a literary event in 2022 was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Almost three years after the assassination attempt on Salman Rushdie, it feels there are two predominant approaches to …