Salman Rushdie’s “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder,” his explicit and surprisingly resilient memoir about his brutal stabbing in 2022, is a nominee for the National Book Awards.
Expected trial date for man accused in brutal attack of ex-wife, two young daughters has been pushed back
The other nonfiction nominees were: Eliza Griswold's “Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church,” Kate Manne's “Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia,” Ernest Scheyder's “The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives," Richard Slotkin's “A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America,” Deborah Jackson Taffa's “Whiskey Tender" and Vanessa Angélica Villarreal's “Magical/Realism: Essays...
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