When we launched Foreword This Week all those years ago, the mission we assigned ourselves was to connect Foreword reviewers with the most unforgettable authors we cover in the magazine—to banter and challenge and jovially engage in... Read More

Racism against Black people has changed from the days of Lincoln when racists had enslavement laws on their side. But one thing has never changed: then and now, anti-Black racism lives in the hearts of men—and that’s a difficult... Read More

The headlines aren’t pretty right now: Afghanistan. Delta variant. Earthquakes. Wildfires. Heat waves. Hurricanes. Makes you want to descend into a gloomy little cloud of hopelessness, right? Don’t let it happen. Instead, let... Read More

Waiting for the Waters to Rise / Maryse Condé / Richard Philcox, translator / World Editions / Softcover $16.99 (368pp) / 978-1-64286-073-3 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Maryse Condé’s novel Waiting for the Waters to Rise... Read More

All’s fair in love and war—though betrayed spouses and mustard gas victims might take issue with that word “fair.” But we get the point: no-one should ever be surprised by anything that happens in the course of courtship or... Read More

To be a woman is to recognize the heavily male-centered annals of history as the original fake news. In their disregard and erasure of women’s lives, stories, and accomplishments, male historians have long perpetuated a wicked,... Read More

Every one of us comes from somewhere, like it or not, and most of us can’t help but be curious about our origins and ancestors. We want to know the whos, whens, and wheres of our story as far back in the mist of history as possible.... Read More

The heartbreaking George Floyd killing in Minneapolis appears to be one murder too many for this country’s conscience and we’re finally going to have the honest conversation about race we’ve been avoiding since the end of The Civil... Read More