Consider the human heart—evolutionary wonder, critical part of our anatomy, susceptible to all manner of disorder making heart disease the leading cause of death to Americans, with many hundreds of billions of dollars going to... Read More

Pump / A Natural History of the Heart / Bill Schutt / Algonquin Books / Hardcover $26.95 (288pp) / 978-1-61620-893-6 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Bill Schutt’s Pump is an entertaining survey of the evolution of the... Read More

Congrats all around! Foreword Reviews was just named a finalist in the 2021 FOLIO: Eddie & Ozzie Awards for a Writers of Color feature from the January/February issue. For more than twenty five years, FOLIO: has celebrated editorial and... Read More

Today’s interview brings to mind a splendid term we were introduced to last year by Kristen Sollee, a practicing witch and the author of Witch Hunt: A Traveler’s Guide to the Power & Persecution of the Witch. In her travels to famous... Read More

How to Examine a Wolverine / More Tales from the Accidental Veterinarian / Philipp Schott / ECW Press / Softcover $15.95 (290pp) / 978-1-77041-588-1 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / The deep, heartfelt essays of... Read More

Racism against Black people has changed from the days of Lincoln when racists had enslavement laws on their side. But one thing has never changed: then and now, anti-Black racism lives in the hearts of men—and that’s a difficult... Read More

Amber & Rye / A Baltic Food Journey / Zuza Zak / Interlink Books / Hardcover $35.00 (256pp) / 978-1-62371-900-5 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Polish food authority Zuza Zak introduces the Baltic states in Amber & Rye,... Read More

Executive Editor Matt Sutherland Interviews James Ross, Author of Coldwater Revenge / One of the very few downsides to living a dynamic, enterprising American life is that you leave little time to write, should you want to. That matters... Read More