No More Police: A Case for Abolition

by Mariame Kaba, Andrea J. Ritchie

Police in the U.S. consume [close to] $130 billion a year…Carceral logics normalize policing and punishment in response to social problems rather than collective care and mutual support.

Police violence is not counted in the crime stats periodically trotted out to justify their existence—even though … Read more

Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy: Volume 1

Marie Hodgkinson (Editor)
  • “Trees” by Toni Wi ★★★
  • “The Garden” by Isabelle McNeur ★★★½
  • “Logistics” by A.J. Fitzwater ★★★★
  • “The Billows of Sarto” by Sean Monaghan ★★★
  • “A Most Elegant Solution” by M. Darusha Wehm ★★★★★
  • “A Brighter Future” by Grant Stone ★★★½
  • “The Glassblower’s Peace” by James Rowland ★★★½
  • “Mirror
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The Best of World SF: Volume 2

by Lavie Tidhar (Editor)
  • “The Bahrain Underground Bazaar” by Nadia Afifi ★★★★★
  • “The Ten-Percent Thief” by Lavanya Lakshminarayan ★★★
  • “At Desk 9501” by Frances Ogamba ★★★
  • “Bring Your Own Spoon” (reread) by Saad Z. Hossain ★★★★★
  • “Blue Grey Blue” by Yukimi Ogawa ★★★½
  • “Your Multicolored Life” by Xing He ★★
  • “The
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Ten Little Indians

by Sherman Alexie
  • “The Search Engine” ★★★★
  • “Lawyer’s League” ★★★½
  • “Can I Get a Witness?” ★★★
  • “Do Not Go Gentle” ★★★
  • “Flight Patterns” ★★½
  • “The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above” ★★½
  • “Do You Know Where I Am?” ★★★★
  • “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” ★★★★
  • “What Ever Happened to
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The Best of World SF: Volume 1

by Lavie Tidhar (Editor)
  • “What the Dead Man Said” by Chinelo Onwualu ★★★
  • “Delhi” by Vandana Singh ★★★★
  • “The Wheel of Samsara” by Han Song ★★
  • “Xingzhou” by Ng Yi-Sheng ★★★
  • “Prayer” by Taiyo Fujii ★★
  • “The Green Ship” by Francesco Verso ★★½
  • “Eyes of the Crocodile” by Malena Salazar Maciá
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Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry

by David Ly (Editor)
  • “The Vetala’s Song” by Anuja Varghese ★★★½
  • “#WWMD?” by jaye simpson ★★★
  • “Gruesome My Love” by Levi Cain ★★★
  • “Glamour-Us” by Andrew Wilmot ★★★
  • “And the Moon Spun Round like a Top” by Hiromi Goto ★★★½
  • “The Minotaur and Theseus (and Other Bullshit)” by Ben Rawluk ★★★½
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The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2021)

Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (Editor)
  • “The Many Lives of an Abiku” by Tobi Ogundiran ★★★
  • “A Love Song for Herkinal as composed by Ashkernas amid the ruins of New Haven” by Chinelo Onwualu ★★★
  • “Are We Ourselves?” by Michelle Mellon ★★½
  • “The Goatkeeper’s Harvest” by Tobi Ogundiran ★★½
  • “Baba Klep” by Eugen
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