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"Salman Rushdie is celebrated as a storyteller of the highest order, illuminating deep truths about our society and culture through his gorgeous, often searing, prose. Now, in his latest collection of nonfiction, he brings together insightful and inspiring essays, criticism, and speeches that focus... Full description
Table of Contents:
- Part One
- Wonder Tales
- Proteus
- Heraclitus
- Another Writer's Beginnings
- Part Two
- Philip Roth
- Kurt Vonnegut and Slaughterhouse-Five
- Samuel Beckett's Novels
- Cervantes and Shakespeare
- Gabo and I
- Harold Pinter
- Paris Review, The Art of Fiction, Vol. IV
- Autobiography and the Novel
- Adaptation
- Notes on Sloth
- Hans Christian Andersen
- David Remnick's King of the World
- Very Well Then, I Contradict Myself
- Part Three
- Truth
- Courage
- Texts for PEN
- Christopher Hitchens
- The Liberty Instinct
- Osama Bin Laden
- Ai Weiwei and Others
- The Half-Woman God
- Nova Southeastern University Commencement Address 2006
- Emory University Commencement Address 2015
- Part Four
- The Composite Artist: the Emperor Akbar and the Making of the Hamzanama
- Amrita Sher-Gil: Letters
- Bhupen Khakhar (1934-2003)
- Being Francesco Clemente: Self-Portraits at the Gagosian Gallery, London, 2005
- Taryn Simon: An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar at the Whitney Museum, New York, 2007
- Kara Walker at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2009
- Sebastião Salgado
- The Unbeliever's Christmas
- Carrie Fisher
- Pandemic: A Personal Engagement with the Coronavirus
- The Proust Questionnaire: Vanity Fair.