In conversation with Michael Krasny
Salman Rushdie’s new memoir Joseph Anton recounts how he lived under a death threat for 10 years, moving stealthily from house to house under police protection. Learn details about his years spent in hiding after the Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against him, sentencing Rushdie to death because his novel The Satanic Verses was deemed “against Islam, the Prophet and the Qu’ran.”

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