Salman Rushdie

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Springtime for Darwin

The wars of evolution are louder than ever. What Ben Stein, Bad Religion, and a physics professor from Quincy can tell you about where you came from.
There are two stories, and two stories only.
By JAMES PARKER | May 07, 2008

Then She Found Me

Overplotted pregnancy flick
Helen Hunt bites off more than she can chomp on, choosing also to star in this her first try as a film director, a clumsy, overplotted rendition of Elinor Lipman’s 1990 novel.
By GERALD PEARY | April 30, 2008

Striking out

Letters to the Boston editor, July 6, 2007
Dan Shaughnessy haters need to grow some balls and quit whining about how “mean” he is.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | July 02, 2007

Salman speaks

Rushdie's new novel, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, is a work of epic ambition that fuses myth with rock-and-roll reality
This article originally appeared in the May 6, 1999 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By PETER KADZIS | June 21, 2007

Rushdie’s courage

Why Sir Salman’s knighthood matters
Bombay-born Salman Rushdie, educated at Rugby and Cambridge, is now Sir Salman Rushdie.
By EDITORIAL | June 20, 2007

Uses of Heidi Julavits

Founding editor of the Believer on reading, writing, and response
Someone recently told Heidi Julavits that she’ll be remembered most for a Believer essay that appeared in the magazine’s March 2003 debut issue.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN | February 14, 2007

Politics and pleasure

Letters to the Boston editor
Thank you for Michael Bronski’s article about Ellen Willis.
By LETTERS | December 06, 2006

The uses of Heidi Julavits

Raise more hell and less porn

Letters to the Boston editor, October 6, 2006
Your editorial "Fear Itself" blurs the line of censorship and community activism.
By PHOENIX LETTERS | October 04, 2006

High on life

Upamanyu Chatterjee’s American debut
Contemporary Indian literature has been making a home in the United States for a while now thanks to Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth, and Arundhati Roy, among others.
By JULIA HANNA | April 20, 2006

Democracy and distaste

The Phoenix Editorial: What we can learn from the case of a Nazi apologist
David Irving is a British historian who has spent his professional career first denying that the Holocaust took place, then saying that it had been grossly exaggerated. He is a deeply unsympathetic character.
By EDITORIAL | February 22, 2006

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