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Credits:

• Guest: Amal El-Mohtar
• Title: The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
• Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork by Rob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough

References:

• Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera
• In Universes by Emmet North
• The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar
• Amal’s review of those three novels
• The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Grace of Kings by Ken Liu
• The Craft Sequence by Max Gladstone
• Star Wars
• Wicked problems
• A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
• The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
• The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
• Babel, or the Necessity of Violence by R.F. Kuang
• The Battle of Algiers directed by Gillo Pontecorvo
• Tony Gilroy’s Star Wars series Andor
• The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
• The sequels to Traitor Baru, The Monster Baru Cormorant & The Tyrant Baru Cormorant
• Commedia dell’arte
• Lee Mandelo's writing on Eve Sedwgick, paranoid & reparative reading
• Kameron Hurley & Arkady Martine
• Exordia by Seth Dickinson
• The Unaccountability Machine by Dan Davies
• Amal's next book, The River Has Roots
• The ballad of The Two Sisters/The Bonny Swans
• Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees