I’ve had a problem these past few weeks trying to figure out just what “Summer Reading” is supposed to mean. Then, the death of an author solved it. Not that I’m happy about an author dying, but the recent passing of Robert M.... Read More

Ilan StavansRestless Books Publisher Ilan Stavans, writing in Foreword Reviews, recently addressed the danger of a literary monoculture posed by reliance on only a few large, corporate publishers: Stavans wrote:“The act—and art—of... Read More

Rachel HaimowitzRachel Haimowitz publisher of Riptide Publishing, which specializes in LGBTQ fiction, recently wrote a commentary for Foreword Reviews that said:“We’re on a mission to get these stories into the hands of straight... Read More

Anna Gooding-Call is a reference librarian at the Nevins Memorial Library in Methuen, Massachusetts, where she focuses on digital literacy. She’s interested in closing the gap between those who have easy access to information and those... Read More

The idea of adapting a classic novel or short story to the comics medium has been around for a long time. I remember, as a child, picking out ten dollars worth (I forget how many that bought) of King Classics comics, selected mostly on... Read More

Anyone with more than a passing interest in grammar, style, and usage has likely been chided once or a million times to focus on what really matters, because, after all, “You know what I mean!” Sometimes, of course, this is true; a... Read More

Welcome to Poetry Month, all you April Fools and literary leprechauns. For the past several weeks, here at Foreword Reviews, we’ve been quietly whittling through scores upon stacks of poetry collections in search of thirty poems we... Read More

Editor’s Note: This commentary by Joni Praded, a senior editor at Chelsea Green Publishing, is part of our ongoing #IndieVoices series of commentaries and features in the month of March focusing on Climate Change. Read the introduction... Read More