things become nebulous, even unreliable. "Friendship is promiscuous," says novelist Hisham Matar. You can have many friends at once – and you enter into friendships without knowing how long they ...

The writer Hisham Matar likes to visit art museums. His approach to paintings is by no means eccentric, but it is definitely unusual. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Return,” the 2016 ...

A rash decision to attend an anti-Qaddafi protest in London reverberates in Hisham Matar’s poignant and quietly suspenseful third novel. By Peter C. Baker Peter C. Baker’s novel “Planes ...

WARNING: This audio interview contains disturbing details. British Libyan writer Hisham Matar's fiction is haunted by a sense of loss and displacement, but especially by the absence of a father.