Reviews round-up
The Eleventh Hour
by Salman Rushdie
5 of 10 critics positive
11 reviews: 5 positives, 4 mixed, 1 pan; 1 not stating a verdict in public
What the critics said
“funny and full of life”
Salman Rushdie on death: funny and full of life
“It's a moving work from a writer embracing his 'second-chance life.'”
Review: After stabbing attack, Salman Rushdie's new stories grapple with mortality and magical realism
“stabbed 15 times but still laughing”
Salman Rushdie: stabbed 15 times but still laughing
“stories with levity and laughter”
The Eleventh Hour by Salman Rushdie audiobook review – stories with levity and laughter
“A new collection rich with pathos and reflection”
The Eleventh Hour by Salman Rushdie: A new collection rich with pathos and reflection
“reveals a venerable writer displaced by time”
In the autumn of Salman Rushdie
“a reminder of the writer's best and worst tendencies”
The Eleventh Hour is Salman Rushdie’s haunting reckoning with mortality
“a book that strains to recall the author's richest”
Rushdie Returns to Fiction, With Mortality on His Mind
“exuberant, funny and sometimes just too much”
‘You’re a genius, obviously, Salman, but you’re also driving everyone nuts’
“showcases his worst habits in a rambling, uneven short-story collection”
Salman Rushdie’s The Eleventh Hour: For once, words fail him
“A closing statement from a big name writer is nothing new”
Salman Rushdie reflects on all his yesterdays in fictional anthology The Eleventh Hour
Verdicts are read from each outlet's own headline and summary; quotes are their words, credited and linked. Where a paywalled summary does not give the critic's view, we say so rather than guess. How it works.
