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 ...

In his youth, Mohamed Samatar's magnetic personality showed no boundaries. Everyone was drawn to him, including bad influences. But after his father died in 2015, Samatar changed his ways. He cut off ...

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 ...

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,” ...

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 ...

New Dominion Bookshop will present a book reading and signing with author Sofia Samatar at 7 p.m. Friday. Samatar will read from “The Practice, the Horizon and the Chain,” her new science fiction ...

Novelist Samatar (The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain) presents a meandering collection of vague musings about writing, publishing, and life. The strongest entries critique the “tyranny of ...