Watching the reviews come tumbling in before every issue of Foreword is both stressful and suspenseful: stressful because there’s lots of editing and layout work to do; suspenseful because we never know which books are going to... Read More

Somewhere Past the End / Alexandria Faulkenbury / Apprentice House Press / Softcover $21.99 (272pp) / 978-1-62720-561-0 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Soon-to-be mothers struggle with cult brainwashing in Alexandria... Read More

Executive Editor Matt Sutherland Interviews Brenda Coffee, Author of Maya Blue: A Memoir of Survival / A memoir that reads like a thriller, Brenda Coffee’s Maya Blue reminds us of the power of our voice and speaking our truth. It is... Read More

Buddhist koan lovers play a philosophical game that puts forward this challenge: state one truth about the universe that can be proven without a doubt. And often, “that we will surely die” comes back as a response. But what is death?... Read More

The Country Under Heaven / Frederic S. Durbin / Melville House / Softcover $20.99 (336pp) / 978-1-68589-169-5 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Dizzying visions haunt the otherwise delicate beauty of Frederic S. Durbin’s... Read More

Reviewer Katy Keffer Interviews Isabelle Morley, Author of They’re Not Gaslighting You: Ditch the Therapy Speak and Stop Hunting for Red Flags in Every Relationship / After a years-long perfect storm of Covid isolation, social media... Read More

Lots of years around books has taught us a few things about writers. To whit: pay attention when an author says something along the lines of, “it was important to me to write this story.” Most often, that tell signifies an extremely... Read More

Beyond They/Them / 20 Influential Nonbinary and Gender-Diverse People You Should Know / Em DicksonCameron Mukwa, illustrator / Andrews McMeel Publishing / Hardcover $21.99 (96pp) / 978-1-5248-9399-6 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop)... Read More