Salman Rushdie is still officially under a death threat. But, “his conduct, however, suggests that he’s trying to play two sides of the most famous death threat in the history of English letters. On the one hand, the literary apparatus that built Rushdie’s fame does not hesitate to stage rock-star events at which audiences are all but frisked before hearing the endangered master read. On the other, the man himself is finding that it’s tough to bask in the limelight from behind a scrum of bodyguards.” – Feed