Welcome AQR Vol. 40, No. 3 & 4! 🦭Featuring work from @laypay, @jamaicabaldwin, @kwamedawes, @tcboyle, @ParadiseLAust, @bengucciardi, @kim_addonizio. @KelliAgodon, @sasqitoon, @ninawyo, @FoustRebecca, @ShangyangFang, @januaryoneil, and more! Get your copy:

Listen to EIC Ronald Spatz in conversation with @AKpublicnews about the early days of AQR and the lasting importance of art and art making:

Home for the holidays? Find a cozy spot and read selections from our Innovative Fiction 21 Writers special feature, originally published in 2010 with guest editor Amy Hempel:

"With Christmas just days away, and each passing minute resonating in our woolen caps like Poe’s tintinabulating bells, the issue of the treeless living room had to be pushed." Ben Miller's essay "Twigmas," free to read in the AQR archives:

Now live on AQR's YT channel! Poet AE Hines is the author of two poetry collections, Adam in the Garden (Charlotte Lit Press, 2024) and Any Dumb Animal (Main Street Rag, 2021). Watch him read for our Pièces de Résistance series:

RT @AragiAuthors: Maria Zoccola reads poems from HELEN OF TROY, 1993 in @AQReview's virtual reading series 🤩 Out…

RT @MariaZoccola: So thrilled I got to participate in Alaska Quarterly Review's virtual reading series! Thank you so much to the AQR team f…

@MariaZoccola is the author of the poetry collection Helen of Troy, 1993, coming January 2025 from @ScribnerBooks. Watch her read a preview from this reimagining of the Homeric Helen as a dissatisfied housewife living Tennessee in the early nineties:

Revisit our special feature "Carrying the Fire: Celebrating Indigenous Voices of Canada," featuring work by @BillyRayB, Joshua Whitehead, Smokii Sumac, @sweetmoonphoto, @brandibird_, @blazingfire3945, and many more:

We’re burdened, curious, for sure we are unsure on this fraught planet, where my vision begins to blur as I add to the watchlist Read Ciaran Berry's "Shopping on eBay for Laika Memorabilia" here:

I wish my email belonged less on the Dick’s Sporting Goods email list than it does. Once, in an attempt to belong to the committee of men I broke another boy’s hand with the eye of an axe. Read James Ciano's poem "Belonging," free to read in our archive:

"I read the articles after. The missing reports. I was even on a milk carton, though the age-adjusted sketch looks nothing like me. It’s an artifact, freighted with possible interpretations..." Read the rest of @Kirst_Madsen's "Missing" here:

RT @DanhoJulie: So delighted to be part of Alaska Quarterly Review's online reading series! Many thanks to Ron Spatz for inviting me to be…

@DanhoJulie is the author of the chapbook Six Portraits and the full-length collection Those Who Keep Arriving, winner of the 2018 Gerald Cable Book Award from Silverfish Review Press. Watch Julie read her poetry for our Pièces de Résistance series here:

"I was 18 when I signed up for my first Object Conversion. It was a graduation gift from my parents, who were each about to embark on self-discovery voyages." Read @themoko's story "Object Conversion" in the archive:

"I wipe my hands down my shorts, but the smell won’t leave my fingers. The cicadas begin their sex songs from the lining pines and oaks." Devin Latham's essay "The Heavy Weight of Nothing":

"But we are stalled now at the next step–which presumably would have involved sex–and have been arguing like a Victorian couple who are unfailingly polite and never dare to raise their voices." @BannedInUtah's story "Volunteers," from the AQR archives:

AQR editor Ronald Spatz was recently honored by the Alaska Governor's Arts & Humanities Awards for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts. Watch the ceremony here (Ron's speech is at 1:06):

"The idea came to me last year when I was taking down my Day of the Dead altar. I hadn’t built such an elaborate one in decades. But the silence and the isolation had seemed to call for it." ire'ne lara silva's short story "song of the burning woman":

These days I move from room to room looking for a thing to haunt. The filaments inside my teeth glow in the dark, Get spooky with @saraelizaj's poem "At the End, There is Always a House":