Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
General Resources:
Brief biography from Biography.com
Reader's Guide - helpful to review before reading the novel
Overview of Midnight's Children from Gale
Midnight's Children study guide (Spoilers) from LitCharts
Media:
VIDEO:
"Why should you read 'Midnight’s Children'? - Iseult Gillespie" for TEDEd
"Midnight's Children: An introduction" by Dr. Merin Simi Rajm, IIT Madras
"Midnight's Children Events: 'Interview with Salman Rushdie & President Lee Bollinger'" from Columbia University
"In Depth: Salman Rushdie" from C-SPAN
PODCASTS:
Guardian book club podcast: Salman Rushdie speaks to John Mullan about his novel Midnight's Children
The Bookening Podcast: "Episode 168: Midnight's Children, Part 1"; "Episode 169: Midnight's Children, Part 2"; "Episode 170: Midnight's Children, Part 3"
"Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie" from I'm A Sophisticate and So Can You!
"Episode 323: Salman Rushdie" from The History of Literature Podcast
Online Articles:
"Bollywood or Bust: Salman Rushdie on the World of Midnight’s Children, Forty Years Later" by Salman Rushdie for Literary Hub
"Salman Rushdie on Midnight's Children at 40: 'India is no longer the country of this novel'" by Salman Rushdie for The Guardian
"Life’s Work: An Interview with Salman Rushdie" by Alison Beard for Harvard Business Review
"Rushdie's Midnight's Children crowned best of the Bookers" by Lindesay Irvine for The Guardian
"Salman Rushdie's Fantastical Tour de Force: V. S. Pritchett's 1981 review of Rushdie's breakout novel, Midnight's Children" for The New Yorker
Critical Articles:
"Apocalyptic Narratives: The Nation in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children" - Teresa Heffernan
"Epic of Failure: Disappointment as Utopian Fantasy in Midnight's Children" - John J. Su
"The Migrant Intellectual and the Body of History: Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children" - Jean M. Kane
"Pessoptimism: Satire and the Menippean Grotesque in Rushdie's Midnight's Children" - John Clement Ball
"Problematizing History with Rushdie in Midnight's Children" T. N. Dhar
"Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and an Alternate Genesis Author" - Indira Karamcheti
"Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and the Metaphorics of Fragmentation" - Eric Grekowicz
"Victim into Protagonist: Midnight's Children and Post-Rushdie National Narratives of the Eighties" - Josna E. Rege
