For decades, Libya's political environment has been brutal and repressive, and that has trickled into many aspects of daily life, including its culture and its literature. Hisham Matar, a Booker Prize ...

Family relationships and romantic relationships carry a certain set of norms and expectations about loyalty and fidelity. But when it comes to friendships ... things become nebulous, even unreliable. ...

In the September 5th issue of the magazine, Hisham Matar wrote about his father, who is counted among Libya’s “disappeared” after being abducted in Cairo in 1990. On Tuesday, Matar is answering ...

Matar won a Pulitzer Prize for his memoir, “The Return,” mourning his homeland and his father. In his new novel, he turns to the untranslatability of exile — and friendship. By Joumana Khatib Talk to ...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning British Libyan writer returns with My Friends — a meditation on how political upheaval shapes the most intimate and... 'Our friendships are our fate': Novelist Hisham Matar ...