There’s a secret force at play in American business, one that doesn’t have your best interests in mind. Call it the call of the quick fix, the capitalist desire to convince you that something’s wrong with you so that they can then... Read More

Late July, 2016: when the American political landscape changed forever, and Hillary Clinton, following a path set by Shirley Chisholm and other brave women who insisted upon change, became the first woman to accept a major American... Read More

A great book offers the opportunity to experience, to better understand, the lives of others. Through these written stories, the world becomes a more empathetic and tolerant place—one without outsiders or others—where everyone can... Read More

Grit is the common factor in these five memoirs, whether it’s an African American scholar from the South and a Palestinian woman who face up to their prejudices, a Jersey girl cancer couldn’t kill, a myth-busting historian, or a gentle... 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

“My personal epiphany as a writer came from this advice: think of your book as a movie in which you’re presenting scenes to the reader. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a vivid detail is worth a few hundred.’’ —Alex... Read More