Hisham Matar Reads "New Shoes"

The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker by The New Yorker

Sep 6, 202632:16Arts

Hisham Matar reads his story “New Shoes,” from the September 14, 2026, issue of the magazine. Matar is the author of five books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir “The Return” and the novels “Anatomy of a Disap...

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