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.
Book review: Carla Williams gives readers a sense of what it was like to be there during the most tumultuous cultural and economic shift in the state’s history, from the perspective of those who were making their own history.
“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.
New works by Mar Ka, Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen and Kim Cornwall remind us of the power of poetry and the necessity of maintaining it.
Book review: “This Much Country” by Kristin Knight Pace joins a strong run of books by adventurous Alaska women.
If you think the actual Pilgrim saga was strange, try adding space aliens, zombies, and demons to the mix. That’s just the start of what David Marusek has done with a series that has to be the weirdest Alaska story ever.
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 Nathan Active series is the best thing going right now in Alaska mystery writing, and “The Big Empty” is one of the best episodes yet.
Alaska Quarterly Review continues to attract and publish excellent writing from all over.
The subtitle, “New and Selected Poems and Prose,” only hints at what is contained within these pages: a career retrospective tracing her pathway to now, and work moving in new directions.
A reader seeking a single book about the current state of our warming world should find “The End of Ice” an ideal summary.
In keeping with his first book, Paul Greci’s “Wild Lands” is at heart the story of a young man coming into adulthood through the process of survival.
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.
This expansive and beautiful book, scenes range from vast panoramas to facial closeups, unveiling an Arctic that is far from the barren wasteland some would dismiss it as.
Many Alaskans, especially younger ones, don’t know about the conditions inflicted on Alaska Natives in the first half of the 20th century. It’s a knowledge gap that makes this book an important contribution.
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.
As of the start of this decade, no one had yet climbed Denali solo in January, For Lonnie Dupre, claiming this accomplishment became an obsession.
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.
Rob McCue’s stories describe life as a nighttime taxi cab driver and his adventures in the wilderness outside the city.
