Foreword Reviews Announces Winners of the 2024 INDIES Book of the Year Awards / TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan: June 05, 2025—Foreword Reviews announces the winners of its INDIES Book of the Year Awards today. These awards celebrate the... Read More

Family and Other Calamities / Leslie Gray Streeter / Lake Union Publishing / Softcover $16.99 (255pp) / 978-1-66252-762-3 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Family, loyalty, and forgiveness are at the center of Leslie Gray... Read More

Do you ever wonder if those in power would do better if they knew better? In my more hopeful moments, I think: “maybe they just haven’t read the right books, or extended enough empathy. Maybe if—” And let’s admit, too, that we... Read More

A few weeks ago in an interview discussing her book Enchanted Creatures, Natalie Lawrence explained that our fear of monsters is deeply cathartic because it allows us to glamorize fear, engage with it safely, and enjoy “all the thrills... Read More

Before Gender / Lost Stories from Trans History, 1850-1950 / Eli Erlick / Beacon Press / Hardcover $28.95 (280pp) / 978-0-8070-1735-7 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / There have always been transgender people, shows Eli... Read More

Reviewer Jennifer Maveety Interviews Adam Aresty, Author of Skyboy / Say what you will about AI’s effect on humanity but there’s one realm where just the idea of artificial intelligence has been transformative: science fiction.... Read More

Watching the reviews come tumbling in before every issue of Foreword is both stressful and suspenseful: stressful because there’s lots of editing and layout work to do; suspenseful because we never know which books are going to... Read More

Somewhere Past the End / Alexandria Faulkenbury / Apprentice House Press / Softcover $21.99 (272pp) / 978-1-62720-561-0 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Soon-to-be mothers struggle with cult brainwashing in Alexandria... Read More