Vijay Mishra's meticulous analysis of the Rushdie Emory Archive - Salman Rushdie and the Genesis of Secrecy - is one of the most significant paperbacks to have been released in humanities publishing in 2021 (originally published in hardback in 2019). In one sense this book might be understood as a literary project, one that enriches understanding of the Rushdie's published works through the perspectives gained from close reading and detailed cross-referencing of Emory's extensive collection of the author's personal papers, unpublished manuscripts, digital materials and ephemera. However, to categorise The Genesis of Secrecy simply in terms of its literary credentials would be to overlook its conceptual and methodological value to wider areas of culture and media research. With this broader frame in mind, this review essay considers the book from an interdisciplinary perspective.

维杰·米什拉 (Vijay Mishra) 对拉什迪埃默里档案馆 ( Salman Rushdie and the Genesis of Secrecy)的细致分析是2021 年人文出版界最重要的平装本之一（最初于 2019 年以精装本出版）。从某种意义上说，这本书可以被理解为一个文学项目，它通过仔细阅读和详细交叉引用埃默里广泛收集的作者个人论文、未发表的手稿、数字材料和蜉蝣。然而，要对《保密的起源》进行分类仅就其文学资格而言，就会忽视其对更广泛的文化和媒体研究领域的概念和方法论价值。考虑到这个更广泛的框架，这篇评论文章从跨学科的角度来考虑这本书。