Book review: Recurring motifs include the Irish, Catholicism, food, baseball, poolhalls, rivers and bridges, and of course the mills that were the center of Lowell life for so many years.
Book review: After 37 years, Gretel Ehrlich has written a bookend to the well-known and loved classic book “The Solace of Open Spaces.”
Book review: In Kazim Ali’s new work, Alaskan readers will find significant parallels to our history with Indigenous peoples and the generational traumas still present.
Identified as a novel, Sean Ulman’s book is both fiction and novel in the other meaning of the word — new, innovative, unexpected, outside of traditional literary forms.
Book review: “Double Vision Alaska,” a collaboration by painter Jon Van Zyle and photographer Jeff Schultz, situates complementary imagery organized around the four seasons.
Book review: Even for readers who think they may know plenty about whales and whaling, “Fathoms” is full of fascinatingly fresh information and intellectual inquiry.
Anthropologist Ann Fienup-Riordan worked with Yup’ik elders to create “They Say They Have Ears Through the Ground,” a collection of essays that express the belief that all animals have minds and are responsive to thoughts, words and deeds.
Book review: “We Live in Alaska,” republished in 2019, is a fascinating adventure story and account of Alaska in the ‘40s as experienced by a naïve, curious, spirited woman who was also a gifted writer.
From apocalyptic young adult fiction to memoirs and a cookbook, these are the works that stood out in an unusual year.
Book review: “As the World Burns” is at once a dispiriting look at the fumbling and inertia of our society to respond to the climate crisis, and an encouraging, celebratory portrait of a new generation of leaders.
Book review: Kim Heacox’s descriptive, lyrical and playful writing in “The Only Kayak: A Journey into the Heart of Alaska” often calls up echoes of John Muir.
Book review: “Silences So Deep” takes readers into the influences and creative impulses of John Luther Adams, whose compositions are deeply influenced by the landscapes, soundscapes and friendships he found in the north.
