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.

JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2026 (current)

Cover image: The Batlló Majesty, Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona. Source: Wikipedia / Roger Ferrer Ibáñez. Replicated here from Eyes to See: Approaching the Spiritual in World Art, by Roger Lipsey (Feb 2026) by kind permission of Monkfish Book Publishing Company, Rhinebeck, New York. Reviewed here

NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2025

Cover image from Lisa's Journey, by Effie Lada. Used with permission from Clavis. Reviewed here

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2025

Cover image from Preserving Greatness: Great Salt Lake in Photographs, by Chris Carlson. Used with permission from Shadow Mountain. Reviewed here

JULY/AUGUST 2025

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.