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Rushdie is overly drawn to low-hanging fruit in this smug collection of criticism, speeches and essays
‘His arguments tend to dissolve before your eyes’: Salman Rushdie. Photograph: Benedict Evans/The Guardian
‘His arguments tend to dissolve before your eyes’: Salman Rushdie. Photograph: Benedict Evans/The Guardian
Sun 23 May 2021 04.00 EDT
With reflections on everything from the rise of autofiction to Trump and Covid, a collection of Salman Rushdie’s 21st-century nonfiction ought to be a treasure trove, but it feels more like watching someone rooting around down the back of the sofa for loose change.
One problem is that, as a rule, these repurposed forewords, op-eds and speeches are plonked down without so much as a date, producing a kind of chronological whiplash as you yo-yo from one obsolete reference to the next. Rushdie promises they are all “thoroughly revised”, but I spotted scant evidence of that, save for a Dominic Cummings-style tweak ....

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