Orange County Register

Twenty Eight trades Chinese cuisine for meat-centric menu after exit of Top Chef’s Shirley Chung

Bravo’s “Top Chef” continues to refer to Shirley Chung as executive chef and owner of Twenty Eight, but the reality is she broke ties with the Irvine restaurant several months ago. The departure was ...
SFGate

‘Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights,’ by Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie has been giving us incandescent books for 40 years. I, for one, first read him at age 13, and the experience was unforgettable, mind-expanding, a watershed moment in my road to becoming ...
Chicago Tribune

Review: ‘Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights’ by Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie’s very bad new novel “Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights” spends a lot of time restating the same idea over and over. Often the language doesn’t even change. It’s all about ...
The Irish Times

Two Years Eight Months & Twenty-Eight Nights review: Rushdie on overdrive

Well, things aren’t looking too good. A ferocious storm has rampaged for three days, leaving destruction and upheaval in its wake. New York is in a mess; nothing makes sense anymore. But this chaos ...
Mint

Book review: Salman Rushdie's Two Years Eight Months And Twenty Eight Nights

René Magritte's ‘Golconda', one of many cultural references in the novel. Photo: Alamy In the kingdom of Qaf, in Fairyland or Peristan where the jinns live, the Lightning Princess opens a ...