How do you recover from a stranger’s attempt to murder you in front of a thousand people, an attack that leaves you on the edge of death with 15 stab wounds? If you’re Salman Rushdie, you write a book about it.

Despite the violence that sent Rushdie to the hospital, “Knife” is a book remarkably void of bitterness and existential hand-wringing.

Salman Rushdie, one of the world’s best-known writers, was attacked and nearly killed by a young man with a knife. Rushdie has written of that harrowing day and all that’s followed in a new book. He discussed it with Jeffrey Brown for our arts and culture series,

The Booker Prize-winning author was stabbed while speaking at a literary festival in New York

When Salman Rushdie attended a literary event in upstate New York on the morning of 12 August 2022, it had been 33 years since the Ayatollah Khomeini’s fatwa for his novel "The Satanic Verses". He writes in his new book that his first thought when he saw a masked man in black clothes running fast towards him was: "So it’s you.

Disarmingly raw, emotional, urgent and honest, Salman Rushdie’s latest memoir, Knife, is about optimism, and the never-say-die spirit

"Anger doesn't help - it weighs you down" Salman Rushdie on his new book Knife and recovering from the 2022 attack