Book review: “Lost Mountain” is many things — a love story, a portrait of an isolated community, a mystery, a paean to salmon and lives that surround salmon, a not-very-disguised critique of a megamine project, and an example of eco-fiction.
Book review: Keema Waterfield survived her childhood and went on to build the kind of life that can give us this remarkably self-aware and forgiving book.
Review: The current issue of the Alaska Quarterly Review, with 10 short fiction pieces, four narrative essays, poems by 24 poets, and a special feature labeled “memoir as drama,” consistently surprises and challenges.
Book review: Do we need yet another book devoted to bears? In the case of Bjorn Dihle’s “A Shape in the Dark,” the answer may be yes.
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.
