EditorialThe author Salman Rushdie is greeted by the crowd with a standing ovation at the PEN America gala in New York on Thursday night, May 18, 2023. (Rebecca Smeyne/The New York Times)
EditorialThe author Salman Rushdie is greeted by the crowd with a standing ovation at the PEN America gala in New York on Thursday night, May 18, 2023. (Rebecca Smeyne/The New York Times)
EditorialThe author Salman Rushdie is greeted by the crowd with a standing ovation at the PEN America gala in New York on Thursday night, May 18, 2023. (Rebecca Smeyne/The New York Times)
EditorialThe author Salman Rushdie is greeted by the crowd with a standing ovation at the PEN America gala in New York on Thursday night, May 18, 2023. (Rebecca Smeyne/The New York Times)
EditorialWriters, friends and supporters of Salman Rushdie gather at the New York Public Library to read from his works at a time of increasing book bans and attacks on speech in Manhattan on Aug. 19, 2022. (Jackie Molloy/The New York Times)
EditorialJason Schmidt, the Chautauqua County district attorney, speaks to reporters at the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, N.Y., Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022. (Dan Higgins/The New York Times)
EditorialWriters, friends and supporters of Salman Rushdie gather at the New York Public Library to read from his works at a time of increasing book bans and attacks on speech in Manhattan on Aug. 19, 2022. (Jackie Molloy/The New York Times)
Editorial A mural pays tribute to victims of the Charlie Hebdo attack near the magazine’s former offices in Paris on Dec. 14, 2020. (Dmitry Kostyukov/The New York Times)
EditorialFILE — An amphitheater at the Chautauqua Institution, where Salman Rushdie was attacked on Aug. 12, 2022, in Chautauqua, N.Y. in 2014. (Brendan Bannon/The New York Times)