Knights Bachelor

In new memoir, Salman Rushdie tells tale of life as hunted man

Arts, Culture & Media

Salman Rushdie knows what it’s like to be a wanted man. After he published his novel The Satanic Verses, the leader of Iran issued a call for his death. Rushdie went into hiding, with armed guards protecting him at all times. He’s telling that story now in his new book, Joseph Anton: A Memoir.

Novelist Ha Jin

Arts, Culture & Media

The impact of social factors on global health

Health & Medicine

Amazing Rare Things

Arts, Culture & Media

Salman Rushdie talks about The Enchantress of Florence

Arts, Culture & Media

Great writers on great books

Arts, Culture & Media

On ‘To the Best of Our Knowledge’ — Toni Morrison, V.S. Naipaul, Amy Tan, Alice Walker, Sherman Alexie and Orhan Pamuk.

Post-Postmodernism

Arts, Culture & Media

Salman Rushdie’s multi-layered novel, three types of postmodernism identified, and Stuff White People Like.

Painting with E. coli

Arts, Culture & Media

An artist and a scientist have teamed up to create art out of an unlikely medium: bacteria.

Remembering Astronomer Sir Patrick Moore

Astronomer Sir Patrick Moore, the monocled surveyor of the sky who awakened an interest in galactic goings on for many Britons, died Sunday. He was 89.

The World

Jimmy Savile Scandal Deepens, Threatening Reputation of BBC

Global Politics

Christina Patterson is a columnist at the newspaper The Independent. She tells host Marco Werman about new email evidence alleging the BBC shelved a documentary exposing Savile’s pedophilia because the victims involved were “teenagers, not too young.”