A Disease in the Public Mind Thomas Fleming Da Capo Press Hardcover $26.99 (368pp) 978-0-306-82126-4 A region of the country believes the federal government in Washington is undermining its culture and way of life. There is talk of war and... Read More
Each of these novels provides a glimpse into the lives of others so different that once you’ve started, it’s difficult to look away. And you won’t want to. Roads not taken, wines untasted, countries not visited—do these gaps in our... Read More
On May 4, 2013, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, chair of the Creative Writing Department at the University of Texas at El Paso, became the first Latino writer to win the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The book, Everything Begins & Ends at the... Read More
Work is stressful, according to the American Psychological Association’s most recent Stress in America survey, conducted last August. Work is a somewhat or significant stressor for 76 percent of Millennials, 65 percent of Gen Xers, 62... Read More
The wide array of recent family and parenting books suggests that there are many mediums through which parents can widen the boundaries of their children’s experiences and imagination, teaching them to value relationships in the context... Read More
An interview with Dan Harmon, the editorial director of Zest Books, a San Francisco-based publisher of teen nonfiction. What is Zest’s book publishing mission? How, when, and where did you begin? At Zest Books we publish smart, funny,... Read More
Pity the cookbook editor, faced with a glorious stack of new cookbooks and the inglorious task of selecting a mere handful to feature in this annual exaltation. What screen, what theme, what criteria should be used to make the selections?... Read More
It’s our fifteenth anniversary issue and, feeling nostalgic, I tracked down the two women who helped me dream up ForeWord to share their memories of our beginnings. Mardi Jo Link and Anne Stanton brought the “literary” to our review... Read More