Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people, I’m sure of that. I had no ambition to be a writer.
SALMAN RUSHDIE • The Paris Review Interviews, IV
“He was coming in hard and low: a squat missile. I got to my feet and watched him come. I didn't try to run. I was transfixed.
It had been thirty-three and a half years since the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's notorious death order against me and all those involved in the publication of The Satanic Verses, and during those years, I confess, I had som
... See moreChristopher Hitchens on the cultural fatwa
vanityfair.com
the original Companions of the Prophet recast as sex-crazed purveyors of snuff films whom even Rushdie’s satirical genius could not have imagined.
Ayad Akhtar • Homeland Elegies: A Barack Obama Favourite Book 2020
Sadiq Khan.