Newest edition of Alaska Quarterly Review is again a showcase of the best, most empathic writing of our time
Edited by Ron Spatz. 262 pages. $12. “Alaska Quarterly Review,” Vol. 37, No. 3 & 4, Winter and Spring 2021. Edited by Ron Spatz. “Alaska Quarterly Review,” founded 40 years ago at the University of Alaska, continues now under the flag of the nonprofit Center for the Narrative and Lyric Arts. Under the exceptional editorship of Ron Spatz, it remains one of the most admired literary journals in the country. In an interview last month with the CLMP Community of Literary Magazines and Presses Spatz explained that the journal is “of Alaska but not Alaskan.” That is, it applies “an active and attentive lens to our Northern region including its traditions of Indigenous stories and cultures, environmental concerns, and related social justice issues.” It serves as a gathering place for writers and poets from all over, accomplished and new, for bringing a