About the Background

The background of our website uses art from the cover of the most recent issue of Foreword Reviews, which is sourced from one of the books we reviewed in that issue.

JULY/AUGUST 2025 (current)

Cover image from Mama’s Scent, by Sahar Naja-Mahfouz, Baraa Awoor (Illustrator). Used with permission from Crocodile Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group. Reviewed here.

MAY/JUNE 2025

Cover image (Thané, Photographer Texas Isaiah) from Queer Lens: A History of Photography, Paul Marineau and Ryan Likof (Editors). Used with permission from Getty Publications. Reviewed here.

MARCH/APRIL 2025

Cover image from A Chest Full of Words, by Rebecca Gugger and Simon Röthlisberger, published by NorthSouth Books Inc., an imprint of NordSüd Verlag. Reviewed here.

JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2025

Cover image from Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous History of Māori Art, by Deidre Brown and Ngarino Ellis, with Jonathan Mane-Wheoki: Hei tiki representing Ruatepupuke holding a pou pou (carved post), made by Stacy Gordine, the great-great-nephew of celebrated carvers Pine and Hone Taiapa. Stacy Gordine, Hei Tiki Ruatepupuke, 2009, cattle bone, pāua, black goat horn, TePapa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand, 2010-0025-1, purchased 2010. Used with permission from the University of Chicago Press. Reviewed here.

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2024

Cover image from Ten-Word Tiny Tales of Love. Illustration copyright © 2024 by Mark Janssen. Reproduced by permission of the publisher, Candlewick Press, Somerville, MA on behalf of Walker Books, London. Reviewed here.

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2024

Cover image from On the National Language: The Poetry of America’s Endangered Tongue, by B.A. Van Sise. Used with permission from Schiffer Publishing. Reviewed here.