Salman Rushdie in New York last month.  Clément Pascal for The New York Times

Salman Rushdie’s new memoir

In “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder,” which comes out today, Salman Rushdie writes about the 2022 attack that blinded him in one eye and the way his wife supported him through his recovery. It is a visceral, intimate remembrance.

“I wanted to write a book which was about both love and hatred — one overcoming the other,” he told my colleague Sarah Lyall. “And so it’s a book about both of us.”

For more: Our reviewer called the book “candid, plain-spoken and gripping."