Erica Jong writes at length on the letters page of The New York Times Book Review: “Rachel Donadio’s summary of the trans-Atlantic response to Salman Rushdie’s ‘Satanic Verses’ … caught my attention because I happened to be president of the Authors Guild when that book was published in America. What I remember most from that time was the rampant hypocrisy of the response. … It seems to me there are no shades of gray here. Suppressing a book because you disagree with its content is always a challenge to freedom of speech. “