In the post comes a copy of Hanif Kureishi’s Collected Essays. I am ‘in conversation’ with Kureishi on the final night of the Festival of Asian Literature, an event I am very much looking forward to. I interviewed him three years ago for my book From Fatwa to Jihad, and what he said then still resonates today. So, I’m using this as an excuse to rerun that interview. ‘NOBODY’, HANIF KUREISHI SUGGESTS, ‘WOULD HAVE THE BALLS TODAY TO write The Satanic […]

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