Salman Rushdie

Writer and musician Alina Simone loved the comforting anonymity of her adopted name — until she met another woman with the same name.

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.

Video games guide the hero in Salman Rushdie’s newest book, “Luka and the Fire of Life.”

Rushdie’s new book, “The Enchantress of Florence,” is a feast of storytelling, alternately set in 16th-century Italy and India.

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