This week’s conversation is about one of our very favorite things: wine. Indeed, what goes better with a good book than a goblet of vino? So, what took you so long? you might ask. We’d answer that we were waiting for just the right... Read More

A grasshopper walks into a bar and orders an instruction manual for reading poetry. The bartender, an ornery blue jay, eyes the crunchy-on-the-outside grasshopper hungrily, but decides to play nice. We’re sold out, he says, but I can... Read More

Editor-in-Chief Michelle Schingler Interviews Elaine Bapis, Author of Valter of Salt Lake City: The Magic of the Table / A longstanding, legendary restaurant does something incalculable for a city. Of course, any restaurant’s legacy is... Read More

“In my culture, circles are very important, as well as the spiral. It represents connectedness, and I was always taught that we are connected to everything around us, and everything that came before us, and everything that will... Read More

Every year, the Foreword INDIES celebrations provide a déjà vu experience for the editorial team here at Foreword Reviews. Many of the gold, silver, bronze, and honorable mention award-winning books first appeared on our radar as many... Read More

At best, historical fiction helps you experience a time and place with the seeming precision of memory or nostalgia. You may not have actually been there to see the events but the talented novelist offers a close second. In Marines of... Read More

Amazon’s recent efforts to discourage warehouse workers from joining a union in Bessemer, Alabama, has sparked renewed interest in this country’s many battles between powerful corporations and their blue-collar workforce. Alas, with... Read More

An Interview with Ana Hebra Flaster, Author of Property of the Revolution: From a Cuban Barrio to a New Hampshire Mill Town / Every American immigrant story is both unique and similar to the tens of millions of emigrations that have... Read More