by Aubrey Gordon
★★★
Category archives: ★★★
Oona Out of Order
by Margarita Montimore
★★★
New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
by Nisi Shawl (Editor)
- “The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex” by Tobias S. Buckell ★★★½
- “Deer Dancer” by Kathleen Alcalá ★★½
- “The Fine Print” by Chinelo Onwualu ★★½
- “unkind of mercy” by Alex Jennings ★★★½
- “The Freedom of the Shifting Sea” by Jaymee Goh ★★★
- “Three Variations on a Theme of Imperial
Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy
by Jessica Fern
★★★
Homesick: Stories
by Nino Cipri
★★★
FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction | Issue 16 | Joy
by DaVaun Sanders (Editor)
- “Paid in Full” by Sarah A. Macklin ★★★½
- “Ambrosia” by Margaret Saunders ★★★½
Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction
by Joshua Whitehead (Editor)
★★★
Queens of Noise
by Leigh Harlen
★★★
Finna
by Nino Cipri
★★★
The History of White People
by Nell Irvin Painter
The history of fragile white men stroking each other’s egos with pseudoscience, insisting too much. The book is drily informative with interspersals of bemusingly casual commentary, ironic speech, and belaboured listings of abuse-as-scholarship. The last chapter jumps sixty years, promotes exceptionalism, and asks naive questions for the … Read more
Discourse on Colonialism
by Aimé Césaire
★★★
Everything Belongs to the Future
by Laurie Penny
★★★
What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
by Damon Young
★★★
The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness
by Rhonda Magee
My ambivalence about mindfulness took a dive exactly during her example of taking care of the feelings of a racist instigator (Dan) with equanimity.
Kuessipan
by Naomi Fontaine
★★★
Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution
by Susan Stryker
★★★
Exhalation: Stories
by Ted Chiang
Many of the stories are glaringly built around a fixed idea so that the notes at the end are redundant—or are more interesting than the stories themselves. The surrounding texts are more filler than breathing worlds. “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate”, “The Lifecycle of Software Objects”, and … Read more
Flight
by Sherman Alexie
★★★
Interior Chinatown
by Charles Yu
★★★
The Whale Rider
by Witi Ihimaera
★★★