Many readers and writers are focused now on how Americans can heal divides between us, and about the role that literature can play in doing so. It is also clear that hunger for unity does not mean a hunger for uniformity. Rather the... Read More

To Purdue scholar Su’ad Abdul Khabeer, hip-hop and American Islam are a natural match: both flourish beyond, and comment upon, a hostile status quo. And both provide a place of refuge and expression for African Americans held at the... Read More

Why do women read romance? It seems like only men ask this question. A few months ago, before the November election and its potentially world-shifting outcome, sex seemed relatively low risk—or, at least, less risky than it used to be.... Read More

It’s too easy to forget that the fight for basic human rights for African Americans occurred—and many would say is still occurring—very recently in our history. A time when African Americans were not allowed to vote in the South is... Read More

Editor’s Note: This commentary by author Lilah Suzanne is part of an ongoing Foreword Reviews series called #IndieVoices, in which we invite small publishers and indie authors to address the 2016 US presidential election and its... Read More

Editor’s Note: This commentary by Rachel Haimowitz, co-owner of Riptide Publishing is part of an ongoing Foreword Reviews series called #IndieVoices, in which we invite small publishers and indie authors to address the 2016 US... Read More

Editor’s Note: This commentary by Jason Low, publisher of Lee & Low Books, is part of an ongoing Foreword Reviews series called #IndieVoices, in which we invite small publishers and indie authors to address the 2016 US presidential... Read More

Editor’s Note: This commentary by Ilan Stavans, publisher of Restless Books is part of an ongoing Foreword Reviews series called #IndieVoices, in which we invite small publishers and indie authors to address the 2016 US presidential... Read More