Over 30 years after Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against Salman Rushdie for his novel “The Satanic Verses,” the author traveled to Chautauqua, N.Y., in 2022, for a speaking engagement. Rushdie was about to give a talk about artistic freedom when Hadi Matar, a 24-year-old New Jersey man, rushed the stage and stabbed Rushdie in the face, neck, and abdomen multiple times with a knife. The author survived the attack and wrote a memoir about the event titled “Knife: Meditations After an