Alaska Quarterly Review

05/23/2026

BONNIE NAZDAM Reads Her AQR Short Story "MOON HELMET"
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Bonnie Nadzam is an American writer and Zen Buddhist priest and chaplain. In addition to Alaska Quarterly Review, her fiction, essays and poetry have appeared in Harper's, Orion Magazine, Granta, The Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, and many other journals and magazines. Her first novel, Lamb, was the recipient of The Center for Fiction's Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, translated into several languages and made into an award-winning independent film. Her second novel, Lions, was a finalist for the PEN USA Literary Award in Fiction. T. C. Boye used these words to describe Bonnie’s fiction Beautiful, evocative, and brilliant.” Bonnie is also co-author of Love in the Anthropocene with Environmental Ethicist Dale Jamieson and her most recent nonfiction book is The Magpie Spoke to Me: How Storytelling Shapes Our World (published this year by Shambhala Publications). Bonnie Nadzam is currently Associate Director of Ethics, Culture & Religion with the Animal Law and Policy Program at Harvard University and a contributing editor of AQR.

03/26/2026

We note with great sadness the passing of Tracy Kidder, a Pulitzer Prize–winning writer (The Soul of a New Machine) whose work we have long held in the highest esteem. His deep belief in narrative enabled him to reveal the essence of human character, engaging, inspiring, and informing across a wide range of issues. At their core, as The New York Times wrote, were “deeply reported books that often focused on heroic goodness in people.” An excerpt from AQR’s interview with Tracy, “To Catch the Reflection of Human Character,” is reprinted here in his memory.

Be inspired by writers and poets. “It remains one of our best, and most imaginative, literary magazines.”-Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books About the cover and photographer: A Great Gray Owl at Lake Hood in Anchorage, Alaska. © 2026 Erik Hill Current IssueVol. 42, No. 1 & 2Winter/Spri...

03/13/2026

AQR’s Winter & Spring 2026 edition brings together 10 short stories, 4 narrative essays, and poems by 19 poets. Be inspired by the work of our writers and poets. Now available at select local bookstores and at aqreview.org, where both print and digital editions are available. Cover photo by Erik Hill.

02/03/2026

We are saddened to share news of James Sallis’s passing. A prolific American writer and poet, his fiction and poems appeared widely, including in our pages. One poem, HOW ALL STORIES END, published twenty-five years ago in AQR, feels as compelling now as it did then. We post it here in his memory.