Hisham Matar

Jan 17, 2025 | theguardian.com | Hisham Matar

My earliest reading memoryFrom as far back as I can remember, before I could read, I was read to mostly from the same book, The Arabian Nights, feeling the reverberations of Shahrazad’s sentences against my mother’s lap, and suspecting that it must be so: that to tell a story is to postpone death, that after she asks her would-be murderer, “Do I have your permission to tell a story?”, the world is made a little less certain.

Jan 8, 2025 | openlegalblogarchive.org | Hisham Matar |Ferdia Lennon |Percival L. Everett

For the benefit of new subscribers, every January I depart from my usual screeds about the SEC and corporate governance and indulge in the slightly less nerdy exercise of telling you about my favorite books of the year gone by. As regular readers know, unlike the New York Times and other publications, my favorite books are those I read in 2024, regardless of their publication dates.

Nov 13, 2024 | time.com | Shannon Carlin |Hisham Matar

These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. By Shannon CarlinNovember 13, 2024 8:22 AM ESTPulitzer Prize winner Hisham Matar’s third novel, My Friends, begins with a tender yet tense goodbye between two middle-aged friends, one of whom is compelled to search their past in order to understand how they got there.

Aug 31, 2024 | corriere.it | Hisham Matar

È ovviamente impossibile sapere con certezza cosa contenga il petto di chiunque, meno che mai il proprio e quello delle persone che conosciamo bene, forse soprattutto quello delle persone che conosciamo meglio, ma ora qui, al livello superiore della stazione di King’s Cross, da dove posso seguire il mio vecchio amico Hosam Zowamentre attraversa l’atrio, ho la sensazione di vedere dritto dentro di lui, comprendendolo meglio di quanto l’abbia mai compreso, come se in tutto questo tempo, i...

Aug 2, 2024 | thebookerprizes.com | Samantha Harvey |Rachel Kushner |Hisham Matar |Claire Messud

We’re offering you the chance to win one of five bundles made up of all 13 longlisted titles in contention for this year’s Booker Prize  Publication date and time: Published August 2, 2024To celebrate the announcement of the Booker Prize 2024 longlist, we are giving you the chance to win a set of all 13 titles that are in contention for this year’s prize. Each year the Booker Prize introduces readers to the best sustained works of fiction written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.