Anyone writing a memoir wonders just what they’re up to, pulling together the scattered materials of experience and library work, but few express that struggle with the poetry of Sofia Samatar. She ...

Hussein Samatar, a Somali-American former banker turned entrepreneur and politician, died yesterday (Sunday, August 25, 2013) following complications from leukemia. He was 45. His death was relayed to ...

In the future world of Sofia Samatar’s “The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain,” a boy with no name works on a chain gang in the dark and lower decks—known as the Hold—of a massive spaceship. He was ...

Sci-fi writer Samatar (The Winged Histories) strays from her imagined worlds to excavate a very real past in this fascinating look at her religious heritage. In the summer of 2016, the author—a ...

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From PEN Award winner Samatar (The White Mosque) comes a brutal, haunting, yet ultimately uplifting novella examining capitalism and labor exploitation through the lens of science fiction. “The boy,” ...

The Alibi of Capital: How We Broke the Earth to Steal the Future on the Promise of a Better Tomorrow ...