From Best of the Booker winner Salman Rushdie an incisive and inspiring collection of nonfiction essays criticism and speeches that takes readers on a thrilling journey through the evolution of language and culture.One of the greatest writers of our age Neil GaimanAcross a wide variety of subjects Rushdie delves into the nature of storytelling as a deeply human need and what emerges is a love letter to literature itself. Throughout he shares his personal encounters on the page and in person with storytellers from Shakespeare to Toni Morrison and revels in the creative lines that can join art and life. Rushdie considers too the nature of truth and looks afresh at migration multiculturalism and censorship.Essential reading.