This Thanksgiving, I celebrate ten years on Foreword‘s editorial team—years I’ve spent gobsmacked, on repeat, by the wonder-inducing titles released every day by independent publishers. Each selection period, I end up aglow; each... Read More

Writers are fearless—we’ve heard it said so often it has become a cliche. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t a courageous few who really are drawn to grapple with issues that are so vexing the rest of us shield our eyes and skulk... Read More

The World That We Are / Andrew Furman / Regal House Publishing / Softcover $20.95 (292pp) / 978-1-64603-638-7 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Andrew Furman’s wondrous novel The World That We Are connects young Henry David... Read More

As readers, we are fortunate beyond measure to have learned to love reading at a young age because one of life’s greatest pleasures is to fall under the spell of a written story. So, when putting together your Christmas list this year,... Read More

Alyte / Jérémie Moreau / Milky Way Picture Books / Hardcover $26.99 (304pp) / 978-1-990252-47-1 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / An orphaned toad journeys through the natural world in the magnificent graphic novel Alyte. Alyte... Read More

Reviewer Camille-Yvette Welsch Interviews Jemshed Khan, Author of Popol Vuh: The Maya Hero Twins in Xibalba / Over the course of five hundred years, Western Europeans colonized many indigenous lands in the Americas, often entailing... Read More

What if I own more paperclips than I’ll ever use in this lifetime. My other possessions are shabby: the house half painted, the car with no muffler, one dog’s got bad eyes and the other dog’s a horny moron, even the baby has a rash... Read More

Heaven, West Virginia / Ravi Teixeira / Oni Press / Softcover $19.99 (172pp) / 978-1-63715-874-6 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / A man grapples with the lingering effects of his late father’s homophobia in Ravi Teixeira’s... Read More