More podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Credits:Guest: Amal El-MohtarTitle: The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth DickinsonMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughReferences:Rakesfall by Vajra ChandrasekeraIn Universes by Emmet NorthThe Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia SamatarAmal’s review of those three novelsThe Silmarillion by J.R.R. TolkienThe Grace of Kings by Ken LiuThe Craft Sequence by Max GladstoneStar WarsWicked problemsA Memory Called Empire by Arkady MartineThe Goblin Emperor by Katherine AddisonThe Fifth Season by N.K. JemisinBabel, or the Necessity of Violence by R.F. KuangThe Battle of Algiers directed by Gillo PontecorvoTony Gilroy’s Star Wars series AndorThe Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra ChandrasekeraThe sequels to Traitor Baru, The Monster Baru Cormorant & The Tyrant Baru CormorantCommedia dell’arteLee Mandelo's writing on Eve Sedwgick, paranoid & reparative readingKameron Hurley & Arkady MartineExordia by Seth DickinsonThe Unaccountability Machine by Dan DaviesAmal's next book, The River Has RootsThe ballad of The Two Sisters/The Bonny SwansLud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees
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