No intro required to welcome Caroline B. Cooney into the Foreword This Week fold. We’ll just mention her enthralling new thriller, Before She Was Helen, chalked up a stellar review by Managing Editor Michelle Anne Schingler in the... Read More

The story of Atlantis Black—whose death came too young via overdose in a Tijuana hotel room—is well known and an all-too-common experience for super talented artists. What many people don’t realize is that the circumstances of her... Read More

Golden Gate Jumper Survivors Society / Ross Wilcox / 7.13 Books / Softcover $18.99 (150pp) / 978-1-73336-724-0 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Ross Wilcox’s offbeat, engaging short story collection, Golden Gate Jumper... Read More

Here at Foreword, we’re great fans of novels that make mischief with current events, especially in sensitive political areas and with factions of society that take themselves too seriously. Under the guise of historical fantasy, The... Read More

The Meaning of Soul / Black Music and Resilience since the 1960s / Emily J. Lordi / Duke University Press / Softcover $25.95 (224pp) / 978-1-4780-0959-7 / Buy: Local Bookstore (IndieBound), Amazon / Nostalgia-fueled interest in... Read More

Great novels appear in all shapes and guises, but is anything more heartwarming and important than a brilliant work of fiction for young readers? Never forget that we are adult readers because of books like Little House on the Prairie,... Read More

With the previous school year cut short and the start of the next one still too nebulous to hang your hat on, the charm of COVID-compliant family time has started to wear thin for many parents. Whether they are toddlers or teens,... Read More

From news desks to local commercials, it seems all we’ve heard about over the past several months is how “unprecedented” and “uncertain” these times are. While that could hardly escape most of us who are living daily in this... Read More