{
  "id": 8309362,
  "title": "‘Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie’ Review: Alex Gibney Profiles the Controversial Author During His Harrowing Hospitalization",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/knife-the-attempted-murder-of-salman-rushdie-review-alex-gibney",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-18T21:01:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/reviews/knife-the-attempted-murder-of-salman-rushdie-review-1236867255/"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "There’s nothing more distressing in “Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie’ than the unflinching closeups of the author’s wounded body in the days and weeks after August 12, 2022, when he was repeatedly stabbed while on stage at a literary festival in upstate New York. The camera lingers over his mangled hand and the […]",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}