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Sofia Samatar
Sofia Samatar is the author of four books, most recently Monster Portraits, a collaboration with her brother, the artist Del Samatar. Her fiction has received several honours, including the World Fantasy Award. Her first work of non-fiction, the memoir The White Mosque, is forthcoming from Catapult Books.

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Standing at the Ruins

Essay

Issue No. 30

Sofia Samatar

Essay

Issue No. 30

1. SAND AND SNOW   He is a warrior prince. He hunts in the deserts of central Arabia. He drinks and carouses with his...

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feature

May 2015

In the Light of Ras Tafari

Anna Della Subin

feature

May 2015

‘A STRANGE NEW FISH EMITS A BLINDING GREEN LIGHT’, the article in National Geographic announced. Off the coast of...

feature

March 2014

Burroughs in London

Heathcote Williams

feature

March 2014

I first met William Burroughs in 1963. I was working for a now defunct literary magazine called Transatlantic Review...

fiction

May 2013

Cabbage Butterflies

Ryū Murakami

TR. Ralph McCarthy

fiction

May 2013

The guy looked disappointed when he saw me. My one sales point is that I’m young, but my eyelids...

 

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