Humankind has known a few big achievements over the years—cooking with fire, for example, or using language to communicate—but if we’re looking for the most important of all, how could you argue against the development of the... Read More

John of John / Douglas Stuart / Grove Press / Hardcover $28.00 (416pp) / 978-0-8021-6719-4 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Douglas Stuart’s ruminative novel John of John breaks through the surface of a dysfunctional family to... Read More

Wait—I know that book! In a fabulous Portland brewery (woman owned and kosher certified), I was midchat with a friend of a friend; she’d just come from her Rosh Chodesh circle and was raving about a practice introduced to the... Read More

Reviewer Meg Nola interviews Sarah V. Barnes, author of A Clan Chief’s Daughter: She Who Rides Horses (Book Two) When it comes to authentic storytelling, a deep base of relevant knowledge, combined with lived experience, can be... Read More

In today’s interview, Darin Johnson pulls no punches in describing how the governments of Russia and China engage in digital warfare against the US. Make no mistake: we are under attack—Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are terrified... Read More

Created to Play / How Taking Hobbies Seriously Grows Us Spiritually / Brianna Lambert / IVP / Softcover $18.99 (192pp) / 978-1-5140-1150-8 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Brianna Lambert’s holistic spiritual guidebook Created... Read More

Interview with Ian Poh Jin Tze, Author of The Silent Song of the African Savannah / “There were moments, quiet, almost imperceptible, where I found myself lowering the camera, not out of fatigue, but out of awareness. As if the act of... Read More

Foreword Reviews attends a good dozen or so book industry events a year, and we meet hundreds of authors at signings and panel discussions. It was at the 2026 American Bookseller Association’s Winter Institute conference in Pittsburgh... Read More

The Beast / Zidrou / Frank Pé, illustrator / Magnetic Press / Hardcover $24.99 (156pp) / 978-1-962413-59-6 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / A boy adopts a strange creature in Zidrou’s stunning graphic novel The Beast.... Read More

Traverse City–Foreword Magazine is pleased to announce that Jennifer M. Champagne will join the company as Associate Publisher on June 1, bringing a wide-ranging background in independent publishing, literary editorial leadership,... Read More

Science and fiction—you can almost sense the tension between those two words. Science is serious, it wants evidence and facts. Fiction is playful, it imagines and creates and does whatever the hell it wants. All of which makes the... Read More

When They Came Home / Terri Lewis / Miami University Press / Softcover $17.00 (152pp) / 978-1-881163-76-3 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / In Terri Lewis’s affecting historical novella When They Came Home, a shell-shocked... Read More

Cities show their age, of course, but when you walk the streets of Rome or Bruges or Prague, what you see is many ages, hundreds of years of contrasting building materials and architectural styles fused together—medieval door here, art... Read More