What’s the best way to acquire a sense of personal strength? Not the type that relies on aggression—that’s the stuff of bullies and tyrants. No, we’re talking about how to develop inner strength, power that radiates as confidence... Read More

The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone / Felicity McLean / Algonquin Books / Softcover $15.95 (304pp) / 978-1-61620-964-3 / Containing summer friendships, whispered secrets, and a dark, hidden truth, Felicity McLean’s The Van Apfel Girls Are... Read More

FOREWORD’S LIT HIT—INDIE BOOKS THAT’LL BLOW YOU AWAY / A stirring call to learn from history we do not wish to repeat, George Takei’s graphic memoir They Called Us Enemy relays a story not easily forgotten, but too often ignored.... Read More

Foreword Reviews has had a twenty year love affair with university presses. We admire the sheer oddness and chutzpah of institutions of higher learning throwing it down with the big five capitalist publishers and their gazillions of... Read More

The birth rate in this country is plummeting for a very obvious reason: Women don’t want babies. But the reason women don’t want babies is something conservative Republicans hate to admit: Having children is expensive and burdensome,... Read More

Ollie Oxley and the Ghost / The Search for Lost Gold / Lisa Schmid / Jolly Fish Press / Softcover $11.99 (216pp) / 978-1-63163-289-1 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Lisa Schmid’s debut novel for middle-grade readers Ollie... Read More

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