If you think of yoga as a rubber-matted playpen for sculpted, silver-spooned soccer moms with surgically enhanced assets, you haven’t met self-described fat, Black, queer Jessamyn Stanley, yoga teacher extraordinaire and author of the... Read More

Paradise, WV / Rob Rufus / Keylight Books / Hardcover $29.99 (320pp) / 978-1-68442-670-6 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / In the layered thriller Paradise, WV, a rural town suffers from the “municipal leprosy” of the... Read More

We live and breathe book titles in our offices, and when we discovered Gideon Defoe’s An Atlas of Extinct Countries, one thought came to mind: What a “brilliant” title! No one should be surprised that he’s a comedy writer. Then... Read More

Love Me Please! The Story of Janis Joplin / Nicholas FinetChristopher, illustrator / NBM Publishing / Hardcover $24.99 (160pp) / 978-1-68112-276-2 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Janis Joplin’s brief, tragic, and... Read More

Who could seriously argue that teachers don’t play a crucial role in any healthy society? And yet, wages for the profession have always lagged behind the pay workers with similar education levels receive in other jobs, and surveys... Read More

The spiritual path contains a multitude of forks and branches along which to explore—it’s a very personal, intuitive, not-at-all predestined journey, and seekers come from all walks of life. In his own lifelong pursuit of personal... Read More

If you’ve been paying even the slightest attention to her hundreds of reviews and Editor’s Notes for Foreword Reviews, you know that our Editor-in-Chief Michelle Anne Schingler writes with a thunderstick for a pen—especially when... Read More

In My Past Life I Was Cleopatra / A Skeptical Believer’s Journey through the New Age / Amal Awad / Murdoch Books / Softcover $20.99 (296pp) / 978-1-911632-95-5 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Part memoir, part... Read More