Give it up for Gavin Evans’s thorough and timely teardown of racial myths in Skin Deep: Journeys in the Divisive Science of Race. Informed by a background in law and political studies, as well as involvement in anti-apartheid movements... Read More

TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan: June 14, 2019—Foreword Reviews, a book review journal focusing on independently published books, announced the winners of its INDIES Book of the Year Awards today. The awards recognize the best books published... Read More

This week, we’re excited to hear from Marjolein Dubbers, an expert in nutrition and women’s health. The author of Hormone Power: Transform Your Diet, Transform Your Life, Marjolein believes standard diets are nonsensical because each... Read More

Castle of Concrete / Katia Raina / Young Europe Books / Softcover $15.95 (304pp) / 978-0-9995416-3-0 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / Imagine becoming an adult under the imposing shadow of the Soviet Union. That’s... Read More

FOREWORD’S LIT HIT—INDIE BOOKS THAT’LL BLOW YOU AWAY / Stealing today’s spotlight is Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard’s Animal Beauty: On the Evolution of Biological Aesthetics. A Nobel Prize-winning biologist, Nüsslein-Volhard... Read More

Fairy tales are powerful mojo—entertaining, yes, but also capable of shaping young minds in enchantingly propaganda-like ways. As stories, the best of the tales succeed when they utilize fantastical ideas like talking creatures,... Read More

Out in Time / The Public Lives of Gay Men from Stonewall to the Queer Generation / Perry N. Halkitis / Oxford University Press / Hardcover $34.95 (192pp) / 978-0-19-068660-4 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / The... Read More

Reviewer Peter Dabbene Interviews Indigenous Authors of This Place: 150 Years Retold / Canada, our cheerful, polite neighbor to the north, hasn’t always lived up to its ideals. Just as the US grotesquely mistreated its Indigenous... Read More