An Interview with Sarah Crabtree and Melissa Philley, Author and Illustrator of Quaker, Whaler, Traitor, Spy!: The Trials of William Rotch / Oil embargoes. False flags. Tariffs. Gunboat diplomacy. Smuggling. Religious zealotry. You might... Read More

With her sharply-written starred review ofThe Shipikisha Club in Foreword’s March/April issue, Meg Nola introduces us to the remarkable Mubanga Kalimamukwento, a five-time author and University of Minnesota PhD student (Gender, Women... Read More

Residual / Tisa Bryant / Nightboat Books / Softcover $19.95 (272pp) / 978-1-64362-296-5 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Queer Black author and professor Tisa Bryant’s bold, inventive autobiographical essay collection is about... Read More

Reviewer Peter Dabbene Interviews Darin S. Cape, Author of Zicky: Wrath of the Rat King / At Foreword, we’re always excited to hear the backstory of a new publishing company, and today’s interview with graphic-novel publisher Shawn... Read More

“I know this sounds glib, but I don’t think of literary writing as communication so much as I think of it as making art with language.” —Maya Jewell Zeller, author of Raised by Ferns Glib or not, thank you Maya Jewell Zeller for... Read More

The Shipikisha Club / Mubanga Kalimamukwento / Dzanc Books / Hardcover $27.95 (298pp) / 978-1-938603-75-4 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / A Zambian woman is prosecuted for murder in Mubanga Kalimamukwento’s gripping novel The... Read More