Tone is a collaborative study of literary tone, exploring its implications for community, politics, and ecology.

1. Front Matter, or The Zone of Our Mutual Sensitivity
2. Fog, or A Gradual Accumulation
3. The Wasteland, or Our Own Colorless Patch of Sky
4. Hoard, or An Unaired Room
5. Aviary, or Animal
6. Guest Lecture, or Reports to an Academy
7. Lighted Window, or Studies in Atmosphere
Acknowledgments
Notes

Sofia Samatar is the author of five books, most recently the memoir The White Mosque, a PEN/Jean Stein Award finalist. Her works include the World Fantasy Award-winning A Stranger in Olondria and Monster Portraits, a collaboration with her brother, the artist Del Samatar. A scholar of Afrofuturism and modern Arabic literature of Africa, she teaches at James Madison University.
Kate Zambreno is the author of nine books, including The Light Room, a meditation on art and care, for which she was awarded a Guggenheim nonfiction fellowship in 2021. She is the Strachan Donnelley Chair in Environmental Writing at Sarah Lawrence College and also teaches in the graduate nonfiction program at Columbia University.