In the masterful novel “The Knife”, Salman Rushdie writes about the violence he experienced and at the same time about what needs to be defended in Ukraine, in Israel and around the world.
A few days after Iran’s fortunately ineffective attack on Israel, the new book by the man who was sentenced to death by the Iranian revolutionary leader in 1989 is published. And who almost succumbed to this old curse at a reading in New York in the summer of 2022.