Kids are naturally tough and resilient, if we inspire them to be. Which is why many experts encourage parents to speak more candidly with their children about subjects often thought to be intellectually or emotionally off limits.... 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

One of our favorite books of the March/April 2021 issue introduced us to John Mack, a brilliant author and top Harvard Medical School psychiatrist who inexplicably developed an obsession with alien abduction—and nearly lost his career... Read More

We’re always on the lookout for stellar romantic fantasies, so when Eileen Gonzalez’s review ofDaughter of the Salt King came back with an emphatic STAR, we jumped at the opportunity to connect Eileen with Salt King‘s talented... Read More

Bookseller Shaun Bythell can be famously curmudgeonly about his customers. But while reflecting on his shop’s second lockdown, he’s discovered something surprising. The owner of The Bookshop, the largest second-hand bookshop in... Read More

Foreword’s Lit Hit—Indie Books that’ll blow you away / Whether your introduction was Barney or Jurassic Park, there are few people who can claim to have escaped a dinosaur phase. Dinosaurs of the non-purple variety are most often... Read More

FOREWORD’S LIT HIT—INDIE BOOKS THAT’LL BLOW YOU AWAY / New York Times bestselling illustrator Pete Oswald prompts you to sit up and listen without making a sound in his nearly wordless picture book, Hike. A father and son embark on... Read More

However nontraditional, it’s still the dawn of summer in the northern hemisphere, and people are creaking their doors open and heading to the beach for some socially distanced fun in the sun. In between sandcastle supplies, sunscreen,... Read More