We get it: there are a lot of Year’s Best anthologies! So let Arley Sorg tell you why this one—The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2021), edited by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki—is such a good one to read.

Reviewer LaShawn M. Wanak delves into Jennifer Marie Brissett’s new novel Destroyer of Light—a retelling of the myth of Persephone. Find out why you’ll want to check this one out.

Reviewer Arley Sorg loved No Gods, No Monsters, the new novel by Lightspeed alum Cadwell Turnbull. Find out what made it such a great read for Arley, and see if you’ll like it too.

For this month’s review, Chris Kluwe looks at a millennia-spanning novel by Monica Byrne, The Actual Star, which follows the lives, both past, present, and future, of three extraordinary individuals, and how their relationships intertwine over the long years of historical time. Find out just why he calls it “a masterpiece”!

Reviewer LaShawn M. Wanak dives into weird waters when she reviews the anthology Weird Women II: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers (edited by Lisa Morton and Leslie S. Klinger). Find out which stories are her favorite and see if you’ll like them, too.