Embracing independence, and the challenges of long-distance sled dog racing, in new memoir
Book review: “This Much Country” by Kristin Knight Pace joins a strong run of books by adventurous Alaska women.
In ‘The Sun Is a Compass,’ a journey of 4,000 miles and the steps it took to get there
Who in her right mind would choose the kind of extreme adventuring that Anchorage resident Caroline Van Hemert and her husband Patrick Farrell endured? That thought is swept away by gratefulness that they did.
The latest Alaska Quarterly Review offers a remarkable richness of voices in prose and poetry
Alaska Quarterly Review continues to attract and publish excellent writing from all over.
A ‘hope-free’ journalist brings his mountain love to our disrupted climate
A reader seeking a single book about the current state of our warming world should find “The End of Ice” an ideal summary.
The story of Alaska’s oldest shipwreck makes fascinating reading
The story about decades of efforts to find the wreck of the Kad’yak is rich in details and personalities, and will absorb anyone with a taste for adventure — especially those with an interest in Alaska’s early history.
2 new books explore the place and meaning of ice in our lives
The authors of “Ice" and “The Secret Lives of Glaciers” are keenly aware of and concerned about what today’s rapid melting will mean to our lives—physically, imaginatively and for our planetary health.
'What Happened in Craig’: True crime novel delves into unsolved fishing-boat murders
Leland Hale dug deep into police records, newspaper accounts and his own interviews to present a disturbing narrative about the murder of eight people aboard a fishing boat in 1982.
Our reviewers' favorite Alaska books of 2018
From memoirs to graphically dynamic travelogues, their lists cover the entire state.
Homestead life captured in letters, memory and reflection
Book review: A Seward resident discovers his personal history as he dissects a shoebox full of his parents' letters.
A resilient female character stars in a young-adult thriller set in the Canadian north
Despite some incongruities, the survivalist tale brings excitement as a city girl navigates the wilderness.
A Nome doctor recounts medical adventures in his early career
Dr. Thomas Sims endured 18 difficult months in the Interior early in his career.