Why Write? Hisham Matar Relishes Its ‘Magnificent Failure’

“There is a very free maniac in me when it comes to fiction,” said the author Hisham Matar. “I really feel everything is for the taking.” 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 —…

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