Salman Rushdie Says US Book Bans Are ‘Dangerous’

Novelist Salman Rushdie tells Bloomberg that the banning of books in the US which “tell the story of America from a different viewpoint” is “clearly an attempt to erase that viewpoint.” PEN America, an advocacy group, has documented nearly 23,000 book bans in US public schools since 2021, which it said is “without precedent.” Speaking on The Mishal Husain Show, Rushdie said that one of the reasons he moved to the US in 2000 was because free speech is enshrined in its Constitution through the Fir