From agriculture to music, most modern-day practices have roots in the earliest days of human history, but few of these enduring elements have enjoyed a continued claim on the public’s imagination more than the history of war and... Read More

Immigrant: a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country. America has been a place of immigrants longer than it has been the United States of America. Immigrants were on the Mayflower. Immigrants built new lives here and... Read More

Gothic novelist Ronnie Turner has some pretty strong feelings about female beauty. In fact, the way beauty marks young women as targets for sexual abuse infuriates her. In the interview below, she cites the Pleiades myth—Orion stalks... Read More

It enters your world by stealth, and before your lunch break is over, that innocent-looking short story you picked up to keep you company while you ate has changed your life. Maybe for the better—did it take your mind off the merger that... Read More

It takes courage to put words to paper with the intention of seeing it through to a finished book. In essence, fledgling authors are seeking to join the company of Leo Tolstoy, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, and other giants, and... Read More

Reviewer Rachel Jagareski Interviews Julian Hoffman, Author of Irreplaceable / Climate change got you down? Need a pick-me-up? Put on some trail shoes and head outside. Yes, it’s an irony but just the thing that’s under assault is... Read More

Editor’s Note: This commentary by Jason Low, publisher of Lee & Low Books, is part of an ongoing Foreword Reviews series called #IndieVoices, in which we invite small publishers and indie authors to address the 2016 US presidential... Read More

Swallows and Waves Paula Bohince Sarabande Books Softcover $14.95 (72pp) 978-1-941411-15-5 Lithe and exacting, this collection draws inspiration from old Japanese woodblock prints and scroll paintings, resulting in lines at once visual and... Read More