“I worry that fraud involving programs intended to help the poor is happening around the country. Congress said as much last year when it asked the Government Accountability Office to investigate … They pointed out that there is a... Read More

Loving Corrections / Emergent Strategy Series / adrienne maree brown / AK Press / Softcover $18.00 (200pp) / 978-1-84935-554-4 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Probing, fierce, and honest, the essays of Loving Corrections... Read More

A Conversation with Lauren Sánchez, Author of The Fly Who Flew to Space / Little flies have big dreams, too—who knew? Today, we’re thrilled to catch up with philanthropist Lauren Sánchez, an Emmy Award-winning journalist and the... Read More

“Maximus Wyld is my invention, but as many authors say: when your character begins to exist on his own, then you’re ready to write his story. That’s how I work. I have to create my characters and come to believe in their existence,... Read More

The Witch’s Secret / Stacie Murphy / Pegasus Crime / Hardcover $27.95 (336pp) / 978-1-63936-629-3 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / An exiled witch contends with murderous forces in Stacie Murphy’s beguiling novel The... Read More

Children’s Book Editor Interviews Lorraine Radice, Author of Leading a Culture of Reading / Outstanding leaders know that the most effective way to get a following is to lead by example—to walk the walk, so to say. Not only does it... Read More

By Rebecca Foster On the ground in the UK, one of Foreword’s most talented and polymathic writers, Rebecca Foster, reached out recently to rave about her favorite band. Cool, we thought, but we’re a magazine about books, why should... Read More

“I think black women move through the world often feeling powerfully othered. In the west, the vast majority of our media … does not centre our experience. We are sidecharacters and footnotes in history, if we are to be found at all.... Read More