Salman Rushdie And John Le Carré End 15-Year Feud

“Fifteen years after Salman Rushdie called John le Carré a ‘pompous ass’ and le Carr&eacute: responded with an accusation of ‘self-canonisation’, one of the most gloriously vituperative literary feuds of recent times has come to an end. … The fight had its roots in le Carrés criticism of The Satanic Verses.”