Salman Rushdie's controversial book 'The Satanic Verses' on sale at a British bookshop.
Salman Rushdie, speaking four days after a fatwa was proclaimed in Iran due to the controversial nature of his Satanic Verses book
February 18
Top 10 Quotes of 1989
A momentous year of change offered up some quotations that retain their importance all these years on
"A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep."