Illustrator Michaela Goade, a member of the Tlingit and Haida tribes in Southeast Alaska, was honored for her work on “We Are Water Protectors” by Carole Lindstrom.
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: At age 11, Elisabeth’s twin sister walked away from home, saying she would return soon. She never did, and that mystery drives the plot of Raymond Fleischmann’s riveting debut novel.
Book review: Barrie Gilbert’s nearly fatal mauling is described in a few pages of “One of Us,” but his primary objective is to talk bears, with personal observations, hard science and a call for more study of the causes of bear behavior.
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.
Lopez was an influential author with Alaska connections whose writings addressed wide-ranging cultural, environmental, philosophical and spiritual themes.
From apocalyptic young adult fiction to memoirs and a cookbook, these are the works that stood out in an unusual year.
Book review: Laura Waterman finds her way into the thinking of the explorers to discern where the point of no return lies, the moment when living men are willing to eat their dead compatriots in a final desperate attempt at staving off their own deaths.
In classics such as “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,” “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” and “The Honourable Schoolboy,” Le Carre combined terse but lyrical prose with the kind of complexity expected in literary fiction.
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: Whether the reader has never visited a glacier or has devoted their life to exploring them, they will find new perspectives and appreciations for these behemoth rivers of ice in this book.
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: Reissued with an afterword by UAF English professor Eric Heyne, “Burning Daylight” was Jack London’s final novel to incorporate Alaska and the Klondike into its settings.
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.
Book review: “Without a Paddle” touches on topics ranging from the Civil War to the backwoods of Alaska to the travails of social media. These poems are brief, yet each tells a story.
Book review: Seattle photographer Paul Bannick has published volumes specific to two of the largest and most intriguing species native to our state: the snowy owl and great gray owl.
Book review: “Fortune’s Distant Shores” by National Park Service historian Chris Allan, tells the story of a rush that had its origins in one of those classic late-19th century con jobs.
Book review: Bill Gordon earned the name “Alaska’s flying bishop” for his near-constant ministerial travel around the state. His well-written biography serves as both engaging narrative and historical document.
Book review: In “The Way to Gaamaak Cove,” Doug Pope is in middle age and cynicism is setting in. That’s when he meets his wife-to-be, Beth, and the cynicism mostly recedes. The adventures don’t, however.
She joins a handful of American poets who have received the prize, which has been dominated by novelists since the first award in 1901.
