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Salman Rushdie wasn't the first novelist to suffer an assassination attempt by someone who hadn't read their book

  • Written by Jonathan Bate, Foundation Professor of Environmental Humanities, Arizona State University
Salman Rushdie wasn't the first novelist to suffer an assassination attempt by someone who hadn't read their bookA still from the film version of Hugo Bettauer's prophetic 1922 novel 'The City Without Jews.'Barbican

Hadi Matar, the man charged with the attempted murder of the distinguished novelist Salman Rushdie, admitted that he had only “read like two pages” of “The Satanic Verses,” Rushdie’s 1988 novel that angered...

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