Dwight Garner, The New York Times
Published: 25 May 2021 02:59 PM BdST
Updated: 25 May 2021 02:59 PM BdST The cover for Salman Rushdie s book of essays Languages of Truth . Photo taken via the author s official Facebook account.
Salman Rushdie has nothing to prove. Yet he finds himself, in his early 70s, deeply out of fashion. Too old to seize a moment, too active to be rediscovered, he’s been subject over the past two decades to some of the unkindest reviews ever delivered to a talent of his magnitude. );
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The magazine Cahiers du Cinéma once had a rating system that included a black dot for “abominable.” If critics could be handing Rushdie these dots, they would be. It has to sting.
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