Comic novel takes on independence in the climate-challenged state of Vermont
Review: Bill McKibben’s novel celebrates free spirits, small-town friendliness, local commerce, radio, and winter.
In ‘Heart Berries,’ a powerful new indigenous voice breaks old silences
Book review: Sherman Alexie calls Mailhot “the metaphorical love child of Emily Dickinson and Crazy Horse.” The New York Times has called the book a “sledgehammer.” Both are appropriate descriptors.
In new mystery novel set in Anchorage, a killer in the homeless camp
Book Review: In "Deadly Solution," Keenan Powell's first book, an Anchorage attorney with a troubled past investigates a murder.
Fascinating jellyfish science told as a personal journey
Book review: Juli Berwald, the author of "Spineless," is an ocean scientist who left her job to be a science writer and to follow a private enthusiasm for all things jellyfish.
Atz Kilcher memoir combines tough truths with homestead tales
Book review: The patriarch of the Kilcher clan and father of Jewel recounts a hard upbringing on a homestead in Homer.
47 years apart, a mother and daughter’s Arctic memoirs complete each other
Book review: These two memoirs, together or apart, are songs to the value of wilderness, the attachments of family and the power of adventurous living.
In ‘Trails Across Time,’ a fresh look at a familiar stretch of Southcentral Alaska
Book review: Kaylene Johnson-Sullivan's book contains fascinating history about the Kenai Mountains-Turnagain Arm corridor.
The books our reviewers couldn’t put down in 2017
ADN book reviewers David James and Nancy Lord have looked through their libraries for their most memorable finds of the last year.
Book review: ‘The Ocean in My Ears,’ a coming-of-age novel set in Soldotna
Meagan Macvie’s debut novel for young adults is about Meri Miller, a 17-year-old Soldotna girl who can’t wait to get out of town and start her life.
35th anniversary edition of Alaska Quarterly Review draws surprising connections across the globe
The volume contains 12 exceptionally fine short stories and selections from 33 poets, along with a special feature of photographs and short narratives related to contemporary art from Papua New Guinea.
Unnatural changes in nature in Nancy Lord’s new novel
Excerpt from novel "pH": The numbers of birds today were mere fractions of what he’d observed in the 1970s. Especially murres. They used to be as thick as flies.
Remembering a Garfield classic, ‘Thousand-Mile War’
This year marks the 75th anniversary of World War II's Aleutian campaign, a good time for a fresh look at the classic book that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.