The ability, the skill, the gift of speaking two or more languages is astounding to many of us with only one tongue rattling around in our heads. What’s it like to have a whole new vocabulary to describe the world, when every object... Read More

Whether or not you consider yourself religious, chances are you feel the strong conviction that you are unique and a certain destiny awaits you if you can only discover your calling. The catch, of course, is that it’s not so easy to... Read More

Consider us fanatical book people here at Foreword, always on the lookout for fantastic new projects to review for our librarian readership. In case you were unsure, the main reason we only review books from independent and alternative... Read More

Reviewer Jeff Fleischer Interviews Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Author of Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership / You can count on it—every month or two, some headline-seeking pundit will... Read More

Have you ever wished you were dead? Are you haunted by a childhood trauma or depressed about a relationship, your weight, body image? Most importantly, are you hesitant to talk about it? If you answered “yes” to any of these... Read More

Paul Theroux—travel writer extraordinaire, author of more than fifty books, genius storyteller behind The Mosquito Coast and other movies—is an original. You can’t travel for months alone to dozens of wayward countries unless you... Read More

Savvy travelers get that way through experience. Nobody’s born with artful packing skills or an innate sense of how to lessen the effects of jet lag. That’s a lesson we learned the hard way after many years of attending three or four... Read More

From New England to the American Southwest, Louisiana’s Bayou country to the Pacific Northwest, along with a few pockets in between, the United States boasts an array of regions with distinct, acclaimed food scenes. But for its... Read More