Salman Rushdie spoke calmly and with occasional dry humour as he testified on Tuesday against the man accused of trying to murder him, the first time the two have been in the same place since the 2022 knife attack on the novelist onstage at a New York arts institute.
Hadi Matar, 26, has pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree attempted murder and second-degree assault.
Rushdie, 77, walked into the
