A deep dive into the history, science and adventure of ocean exploration
Bill Streever, the Anchorage-based writer best known for “Cold: Adventures in the World’s Frozen Places,” sets out to tackle “humanity’s presence beneath the waves.”
In “The Unpassing,” an immigrant story set in Alaska explodes both American and Alaska myths
Book review: In this first novel by Chia Chia Lin, an immigrant Taiwanese family living near Anchorage in the 1980s confronts isolation and possibility.
Searing account takes readers into one family’s experience of schizophrenia and homelessness in Anchorage
Book review: Marin Sardy’s “The Edge of Every Day” should open a wide window into the reality of people coping with mental illness.
‘Look at the bird’: Ornithology and family history intertwine in ‘Blackbird Flying’
Sheila Nickerson chooses to observe the world around her with all the attention she can bring to it, and to use as her guides some of the early explorers and naturalists she’s researched along the way.
Disappearance of an Alaska Native executive is at the heart of a new mystery set in Anchorage
Book review: “Hemlock Needle,” by Keenan Powell, is the second mystery novel in a series featuring recovering alcoholic and former public defender Maeve Malloy.
‘Storm on Our Shores’ tells true story of two men whose fates collided at the Battle of Attu
Journalist Mark Obmascik, best known for “The Big Year,” takes readers into the experience of the fierce three-week-long battle on Attu in May 1943, which resulted in the deaths of 3,000 Japanese and 529 Americans.
Riveting volume of poetry tells stories of students and educators
“You Are No Longer in Trouble” should be read not just by those who love language and poetry but widely by educators, parents, and anyone who works with young people in any capacity.
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.