Editing Salman Rushdie (section)

==== Further works, 1990s–2000s ====
In 1990, Rushdie reviewed [[Thomas Pynchon]]'s ''[[Vineland]]'' in ''[[The New York Times]]'', and offered some droll musings on the author's reclusiveness: "So he wants a private life and no photographs and nobody to know his home address. I can dig it, I can relate to that (but, like, he should try it when it's compulsory instead of a free-choice option)."<ref>{{Cite news| first=Salman |last=Rushdie |date=January 14, 1990 |title=Still Crazy After All These Years |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-vineland.html |access-date=January 5, 2023 |archive-date=November 1, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221101125235/https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-vineland.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Rushdie recalls: "I was able to meet the famously invisible man. I had dinner with him at [[Sonny Mehta]]'s apartment in [[Manhattan]] and found him very satisfyingly Pynchonesque. At the end of dinner I thought, well, now we're friends, and maybe we'll see each other from time to time. He never called again."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/26/salman-rushdie-the-books-that-changed-me| title=Books that made me {{!}} Salman Rushdie: 'I couldn't finish Middlemarch. I know, I know. I'll try again'|first=Salman|last=Rushdie| date=January 26, 2018| work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref>

Rushdie has published many short stories, including those collected in ''[[East, West]]'' (1994). His 1995 novel ''[[The Moor's Last Sigh]]'', a family saga spanning some 100 years of India's history, won the [[Whitbread Award]].<ref>{{cite news| work=[[Publishers Weekly]]| title=The Moor's Last Sigh| url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780679744665|date=13 January 1997}}</ref> ''[[The Ground Beneath Her Feet]]'' (1999) is a riff on the myth of [[Orpheus and Eurydice]], casting [[Orpheus]] and [[Eurydice]] as [[rock music|rock]] stars.<ref>[https://www.salmanrushdie.com/the-ground-beneath-her-feet/ "The Ground Beneath her Feet"]  at Salman Rushdie.com. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191011193504/https://www.salmanrushdie.com/the-ground-beneath-er-feet/ |date=11 October 2019 }}.</ref> The book features many original song lyrics; one was the basis for the [[U2]] song "[[The Ground Beneath Her Feet (song)|The Ground Beneath Her Feet]]". Rushdie is credited as the lyricist.<ref name="After the Satanic Verses, the romantic lyrics - Glaister" />

[[File:Salman-Rushdie-1.jpg|thumb|upright|Rushdie presenting his 2005 novel ''[[Shalimar the Clown]]'']]

Following ''[[Fury (Rushdie novel)|Fury]]'' (2001), set mainly in New York and avoiding the previous sprawling narrative style that spans generations, periods and places, Rushdie's novel ''[[Shalimar the Clown]]'' (2005), a story about love and betrayal set in [[Kashmir]] and [[Los Angeles]], was hailed as a return to form by a number of critics.<ref name="BritshC" />

In his 2002 non-fiction collection ''Step Across This Line'', he professes his admiration for [[Italo Calvino]] and Pynchon, among others. His early influences included [[Jorge Luis Borges]], [[Mikhail Bulgakov]], [[Lewis Carroll]] and [[Günter Grass]]. When asked who his favorite novelist is, he says: "There are days when it's [[Kafka]], in whose world we all live; others when it's [[Dickens]], for the sheer fecundity of his imagination and the beauty of his prose. But it's probably [[James Joyce|Joyce]] on more days than anyone else."<ref name=":ByTheBook"/>

2008 saw the publication of ''[[The Enchantress of Florence]]'', one of Rushdie's most challenging works that focuses on the past. It tells the story of a European's visit to [[Akbar]]'s court, and his revelation that he is a lost relative of the [[Mughal empire|Mughal]] emperor. The novel was praised by [[Ursula Le Guin]] in a review in ''[[The Guardian]]'' as a "sumptuous mixture of history with fable".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/mar/29/fiction.salmanrushdie|title=The real uses of enchantment|newspaper=The Guardian|first=Ursula K |last=Le Guin|date=29 March 2008|access-date=26 April 2024}}</ref> ''[[Luka and the Fire of Life]]'', a sequel to ''Haroun and the Sea of Stories'', was published in November 2010 to critical acclaim.<ref name="BritshC" /> Earlier that year, he announced that he was writing his memoir, ''[[Joseph Anton: A Memoir]]'', which was published in September 2012.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/oct/12/salman-rushdie-fatwa-memoir|title=Salman Rushdie at work on fatwa memoir|first=Benedicte|last=Page|newspaper=The Guardian|date=12 October 2010|access-date=14 September 2012|archive-date=15 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190415202944/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/oct/12/salman-rushdie-fatwa-memoir|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2012, Rushdie became one of the first major authors to embrace [[Booktrack]] (a company that synchronises ebooks with customised soundtracks), when he published his short story "[[In the South (short story)|In the South]]" on the platform.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://booktrack.serveronline.net/blog/?p=164|title=Salman Rushdie Collaborates With Booktrack and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Booktrack Launches A New E-reader Platform|publisher=Booktrack|access-date=2 July 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140404115658/http://booktrack.serveronline.net/blog/?p=164|archive-date=4 April 2014}}</ref>