ⓒ 2026 Foreword Magazine, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Sign up to receive recommendations and new title alerts!
“A troubled but resilient teenager and her friends are profiled in the suburban coming-of-age graphic novel Rigsby WI.”
“The perfect way to kick off my first ALA conference.”
Access to this interactive online issue and past issues is free!
A portion of proceeds goes to nonprofits fighting book bans nationwide.
Article
by Matt Sutherland
Traverse City, MI, March 5, 2026—Foreword is pleased to share the finalists for the 2025 INDIES Awards. This year’s submission pool was exceptional, and our editorial team faced a challenging task in selecting the books that would...
Article
by Kathy Young
The Department of What It (Really) Means to Be Human / M. Darusha Wehm / Goldsmiths Press / Softcover $12.95 (224pp) / 978-1-915983-46-6 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Suffused with supreme empathy, M. Darusha Wehm’s The...
ArticleSponsored Content
by Matt Sutherland
An Interview with Dr. Laura Hambley Lovett, Author of I Wish I’d Quit Sooner: Practical Strategies for Navigating and Escaping a Toxic Boss / Dr. Laura Lovett is with us today to talk about the most egregious type of business leader...
Book Review
Nadine Takvorian’s devastating and important graphic memoir "Armaveni" unpacks the generational traumas left by the Armenian genocide. A teenager in 2001, Nadine is desperate to learn about her family’s time in the Ottoman Empire....
Book Review
What to make of this daily plate?: divorced mother of two sons (one white, one Black). This life lot?: estranged from her own mother. This dealt hand?: caring for a partner through a mental health crisis. Even as her work takes full...
Book Review
You can lead a queer Asian American to the southern US (including Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Florida), but it takes an epiphany-laced collection of poems to understand why Siew Hii stayed. One, an extraordinary ability to...
Book Review
Poets are cheek turners, reliably willing to face grief and pain at untenable levels and then ask for more. Poets are coat turners, inexplicably willing to renounce and swerve just as the path seems laid. In her debut collection, Elise...
Book Review
A marginalized woman is sent into a black hole for the good of her community in Balsam Karam’s extraordinary speculative novel "Event Horizon". Milde was eight years old when her tropical nation declared innumerable women and children...
Taking too long? Try again or cancel this request.