Her mind has many minds of its own. Donna Barba Higuera, welcome to Foreword This Week—your new fantasy novel, Alebrijes, earned a starred review from Meg Nola in our November/December issue and we’re dying to discover secrets of... Read More
An “intoxicating novel” about spiritualism in Edinburgh’s Roaring Twenties, Anbara Salam’s Hazardous Spiritsearned a glittering review from Foreword’s Editor-in-Chief Michelle Anne Schingler. The two of them were more than... Read More
In celebration of this conversation between Rebecca Foster and Julie Marie Wade, author of a spectacular collection of essays exploring identity, queer visibility, feminism, and so much more, we dusted off a proprietary poem which points... Read More
Misogyny. Alas, it didn’t have to play out that way. In this week’s interview, Nikki Marmery talks about a crucial period starting about 4000 BCE when patriarchy crept into the Eastern Mediterranean and Western Asia: “wherever it... Read More
Beth Kephart wants you to think about your love of books. What if your lifelong curled-up reverence for stories on bound pages is as much a matter of the texture, smell, and inky mottled mystery of sheeted wood pulp as it is the meaning... Read More
Aside from her long reign as one of the most polarizing figures in American politics, we can confidently state that over the past thirty years, no one has done more than Hillary Rodham Clinton to advance human rights for children and... Read More
We’ve come a long way from our hunter-gatherer ancestors—and we’ve put on a few pounds to show for it, along with spikes in the incidence of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and other ailments that are much more common to us... Read More
Among the myriad ways we can do the earth a favor, adopting a more enlightened approach to what we put on our bodies can be both fulfilling and fun. And if the movement catches on, remarkable progress can be made in lessening waste,... Read More