Reviewer Katie Asher Talks Sorrow and Scalded Rye Bread with Karen Babine, Author of All the Wild Hungers: A Season of Cooking and Cancer / Have you felt it yet—the urge to know more about your parents and their parents and your... Read More

Let’s pause from our usual tendency to prattle playfully in these introductions, because this week’s subject is deadly serious. In the midst of freezing winter temperatures, imagine sleeping in a car tonight because your family was... Read More

Not that we’d come to any conclusions, but isn’t it interesting how many quirky, eccentric, disconnected, socially-awkward people end up as writers and artists? What is it about those intensely personal creative pursuits that seems... Read More

At some point during the next couple weeks of holiday cheer, stop yourself mid-mistletoeing to remember that the end-of-year/Christmas celebrations are, well, contrived. Yes, they’re based in historical truth—but in reality it’s a... Read More

Back again with more first-time authors from the Debut Fiction special section we featured in the November/December issue of Foreword Reviews. Today, we’re hearing from four novelists. Knowing that first books can be arduous, we asked... Read More

Once again, we’re excited to bring some young readers into the studio (figuratively) to lob some questions at the author/illustrator of a fantastic new children’s picture book. Librarian/reviewer Pallas McCorquodale leads the way... Read More

This pumpkin-scented week, at the behest of reviewer Pallas McCorquodale, we’re straying from our regular Q&A format to add some youth and vigor to this interview with Peter Goes, author of the stunning Rivers: A Visual History from... Read More

Leadership—if you possess the right skills, there’s some job openings in that department, especially in the government sector. Alas, the world is sorely lacking for a few good presidents and prime ministers. Throughout history, great... Read More