Overview
- Random House will publish The Eleventh Hour: A Quintet of Stories on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025.
- CBS shared an excerpt from the story “In the South” and scheduled a CBS Sunday Morning interview with Martha Teichner for Nov. 2.
- The Evening Standard’s review describes the collection as often funny and energized by Rushdie’s preoccupation with mortality.
- The stories move between India, England and the United States, revisiting magic, ghostly presences and the passage of time.
- A reviewer highlights a Cambridge-set story, “Late,” noting echoes of Alan Turing and recurring themes of revenge, as Rushdie, 78, says he writes with renewed urgency.