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Named a Best Sci-Fi Book of 2024 by Esquire“I am in love with Sofia Samatar's lyricism and the haunting beauty of her imagination. Her stories linger, like the memory of a sumptuous feast.”—N. K. JemisinA Most Anticipated in 2024 Pick for Goodreads | LitHub | Book Riot | She Reads | The Nerd Daily |... Read More about The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain

Longlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book AwardA historical tapestry of border-crossing travelers, of students, wanderers, martyrs and invaders, The White Mosque is a memoiristic, prismatic record of a journey through Uzbekistan and of the strange shifts, encounters, and accidents that combine to creat... Read More about The White Mosque: A Memoir

Tone is a collaborative study of literary tone, a notoriously challenging and slippery topic for criticism. Both granular and global, infusing a text with feeling, tone is so difficult to pin down that responses to it often take the vague form of "I know it when I see it." In Tone, a cooperative a... Read More about Tone

Opacities is a book about writing, publishing, and friendship. Rooted in an epistolary relationship between Sofia Samatar and a friend and fellow writer, this collection of meditations traces Samatar's attempt to rediscover the intimacy of writingIn a series of compressed, dynamic prose pieces, Sama... Read More about Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life

Jevik travels to the city of Olondria where he is overtaken by a ghost from his past.... Read More about A Stranger in Olondria

Divided into "Tender Bodies" and "Tender Landscapes," these twenty stories travel from the commonplace to the edges of reality.... Read More about Tender