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

It is possible that the only consistent feature across humanity is that we are all, every one of us, a bundle of inconsistencies. We have complex, sometimes even conflicting, desires and interests; we defy easy categorization.... Read More

Let’s stop the nonsense and finally admit that the notion of dieting for permanent weight loss is a hoax. Statistics show that ninety-five percent of dieters do not succeed with their goal to lose weight over the long term. And don’t... Read More

Honey Mine / Collected Stories / Camille RoyEric Sneathen, editorLauren Levin, editor / Nightboat Books / Softcover $17.95 (352pp) / 978-1-64362-074-9 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Camille Roy’s rich literary... Read More

A great book offers the opportunity to experience, to better understand, the lives of others. Through these written stories, the world becomes a more empathetic and tolerant place—one without outsiders or others—where everyone can... Read More

Unlike the government-funded, crew-cutted space programs of yore, you gotta love how eccentrics like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are putting their quirky signatures on SpaceX and Blue Origin, the two pet projects of their billionaire... Read More