Hisham Matar
Add a: Month in Siena, Hisham Matar’s perspective on Classical art, confident/ understands it completely, but adds a new perspective to it because of his Muslim heritage. That’s what is significant about it. Also a sweet, unpretentious book.
Books by Hisham Matar
“It’s about a UK-based writer whose father disappeared in Libya.” Read more...
Stephanie Flanders, Economist
Interviews where books by Hisham Matar were recommended
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The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land In Between
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Negroland: A Memoir
by Margo Jefferson -
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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
by Svetlana Alexievich -
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East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
by Philippe Sands -
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War
by Robert J. Gordon
Best Nonfiction Books of 2016, recommended by Stephanie Flanders
Best Nonfiction Books of 2016, recommended by Stephanie Flanders
Stephanie Flanders, chair of this year’s Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, talks us through some of the best nonfiction books of 2016.
