Fatwa-free Rushdie says 'Midnight' film closes circle

Salman Rushdie's fascination for young ladies continues! Move over Padma Lakshmi. Literary giant Salman Rushdie, 65, is dating New York designer and socialite Melissa 'Missy' Brody who at 45 is 20 years his junior. Well done,

The shortlists for the UK's oldest literary awards - the James Tait Black prizes - have been announced. Books by American author Ben Lerner and Scot Jenni Fagan join the latest works by Alan Warner and Kirsty Gunn to make up the shortlist for the ...

Centuries ago, there was the tradition of the kathakar, the travelling storyteller. Indian cinema, now in its 100th year, is but a continuation of this tradition, which took wonderful shape at the New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF). Not unlike a ...

Dan Brown has sold 200 million books in 52 languages, penned the global phenomenon The Da Vinci Code The stats are certainly impressive, but Dan Brown's writing divides many discerning readers, making him the marmite of modern literature. Salman ...

By Roddy Macdonald As the storm in a teacup that was the utterly contrived stooshie was subsiding, Tom Peterkin of the Scotsman/Scotland on Sunday obviously thought he'd stoke the flames of Cybernat Hysteria and get in touch with Dr Gavin Bowd of ...

"Where they burn books, eventually they will burn people." Today marks 80 years since the mass burnings of books written by Jewish, communist and pacifist authors across university towns in Germany. Heinrich Heine could have written those words to ...

Palestine, (Pal Telegraph) - In 1516 the Ottoman Turks conquered Palestine, and the country was incorporated in the dominions of the Ottoman Empire. Local governors were appointed from Constantinople, to which annual revenues were sent. Various ...

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