July/Aug ‘22 Arts & Culture Collection

The following are Arts & Culture-related articles of interest from July/Aug ‘22. Those of most interest are detailed in individual postings*.

Salman Rushdie Coverage:

• Writers Gather to Read Salman Rushdie and Support Free Speech (NYT, 8/20/22)

• The Stabbing of Salman Rushdie Renews Free Speech Debates: After the attack, writers and world leaders hailed Rushdie as a symbol of free expression. But the battle lines around his novel “The Satanic Verses” were never cleanly drawn. (NYT, 8/15/22)

• The New York Times’s strange Rushdie silence (Spectator World, 8/16/22)

• Rushdie’s Moral Heroism (Quillette, 8/14/22)

• Salman Rushdie’s Stabbing Shows the Danger of Conflating Words With ‘Violence’* (The Daily Beast, 8/13/22) by Greg Lukianoff

• The best response to Salman Rushdie’s stabbing: The illiterate cannot be allowed to dictate the rules of literature. (Spectator World, 8/12/22) by FAIR Advisor Douglas Murray

• All Because Salman Rushdie Wrote a Book* (Atlantic, 8/12/22)

Other Articles:

• "We Can't Let Them Do This": Interview With Russell Brand (TK News by Matt Taibbi, 8/8/22)

• Questioning the Place of Black Art in a White Man’s Collection (NYT, 8/7/22)

• Dave Chappelle vs. the New Puritans* (Quillette, 8/3/22)

• Rosie Kay: Controversial choreography and overcoming an emotional cancelling (FAIR Advisor Winston Marshall’s podcast, Marshall Matters. 8/1/22)