PARK CITY, Utah — The Sundance Film Festival was shaken Sunday by a harrowing new documentary about the brutal 2022 attack on Salman Rushdie in Chautauqua, New York. The film, “Knife: The Attempted ...

To speak hate—be it personal slander, political vitriol, or zealous calls for fatwa, jihad, and intifada—is to court its real-world manifestation. Since 1989, Salman Rushdie has been proof of this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Collage of a security image showing a man being detained and another image of Salman Rushdie. PARK CITY, Utah — The Sundance Film ...

Over 30 years after Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against Salman Rushdie for his novel “The Satanic Verses,” the author traveled to Chautauqua, N.Y., in 2022, for a speaking engagement.

Alex Gibney’s new Sundance documentary “Knife” includes never-before-seen footage of a brutal 2022 attack on Salman Rushdie in Chautauqua, N.Y. Rushdie, who had traveled to the bucolic resort town to ...

The author gives his first interview ahead of the Sundance premiere of Alex Gibney’s intimate doc, which reframes his story as one of survival, partnership and defiance. But he still doesn't want to ...

Salman Rushdie appears in Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie by Alex Gibney, an official selection of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute. | photo by Rachel ...

PARK CITY, Utah — The wounds are gruesome, and the camera does not waver. Salman Rushdie’s neck is a violent shade of red. The gash along his jaw looks like a canyon, impossibly deep and held together ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. Rushdie and Griffiths spoke with PEOPLE at the Jan. 25 premiere of 'Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie' at the Sundance Film ...

Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie (courtesy of Sundance) The remarkable life of novelist Salman Rushdie hit a new peak at the Sundance Film Festival as “Knife: The Attempted Murder of ...