The classics of American literature are continually set upon by admiring screenplaywrights, short story adapters, marketers, and all manner of opportunists seeking to profit by association. Alas, most borrowings are ill advised,... Read More

In the Company of Men / Véronique Tadjo / Other Press / Softcover $14.99 (176pp) / 978-1-63542-095-1 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / In Véronique Tadjo’s literary novel In the Company of Men, a community goes to... Read More

It doesn’t happen but a few times a year but when a book like Kazim Ali’s Northern Light comes along our excitement is palpable—but the happy discovery also bears with it the duty and responsibility we have to alert our readers and... Read More

How to Order the Universe / María José FerradaElizabeth Bryer, translator / Tin House / Softcover $15.95 (180pp) / 978-1-951142-30-8 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / In this intimate, intense novel about a child’s... Read More

Bookseller Shaun Bythell can be famously curmudgeonly about his customers. But while reflecting on his shop’s second lockdown, he’s discovered something surprising. The owner of The Bookshop, the largest second-hand bookshop in... Read More

It’s not often that we can say, with confidence, that we’re witnessing the beginnings of a career of significance—usually, such realizations only come when we’re looking back! But two years ago, when we received Eugen Bacon’s... Read More

The Greatest Showpenguin / Lucy Freegard / Pavilion / Hardcover (32pp) / 978-1-84365-468-1 / Buy: Amazon / Poppy the penguin comes from a long line of performers, but, try as she might, she just can’t fit in with her family’s... Read More

Since the launch of Foreword more than twenty-three years ago, we’ve been finding front cover images in the pages of the splendid new books we review in each issue. It’s an exercise in riches because we’re always faced with too... Read More