Hisham Matar fled Libya in the 1970s as a 9-year-old boy. This week, he releases his debut novel, In the Country of Men, a story told through the eyes of a Libyan boy. Like Matar, the boy's father ...

Children can be unreliable witnesses when it comes to the facts. But they are often spot-on regarding emotional truths. Hisham Matar, a 30-something writer of Libyan extraction, successfully ...

Hisham Matar fled Libya in the 1970s as a 9-year-old boy. This week, he releases his debut novel, In the Country of Men, a story told through the eyes of a Libyan boy.