Book review: “A Wilder Time” is largely about the process of science — how it is to have a theory and proceed to test it, how science is always questioning, always re-evaluating and revising what we know about life.
Book review: Several Alaskan writers contributed to “For Love of Orcas," an anthology sparked by the story of an orca that carried her dead calf for 17 days around Puget Sound.
Book review: In “Surfacing,” Kathleen Jamie, a poet and nonfiction writer from Scotland, follows her fascination with archaeology and cultural histories to various sites around the world.
Surely there’s room in your printed pages for this very significant contribution to our public discourse.
Bathsheba Demuth’s book is touted as the first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the lands and waters in and around the Bering Strait in both Alaska and Russia.
Book review: Tom Walker’s “Wild Shots” is an examination of a life that reveres other life, studies it in often uncomfortable circumstances, and achieves a blissful satisfaction with a realized image.
Book review: A beautifully arranged collection, with a stunning cover by Fairbanks artist David Mollett, gives fans a retrospective of Morgan’s early work while serving as an introduction to new readers.
Book review: “Warrior’s Creed” is the story of how elite Reconnaissance Marine and Air Force pararescuer Roger Sparks trained and served, backed with the philosophy that has guided his beliefs and actions.
Bill Streever, the Anchorage-based writer best known for “Cold: Adventures in the World’s Frozen Places,” sets out to tackle “humanity’s presence beneath the waves.”
Book review: In this first novel by Chia Chia Lin, an immigrant Taiwanese family living near Anchorage in the 1980s confronts isolation and possibility.
Book review: Marin Sardy’s “The Edge of Every Day” should open a wide window into the reality of people coping with mental illness.
Sheila Nickerson chooses to observe the world around her with all the attention she can bring to it, and to use as her guides some of the early explorers and naturalists she’s researched along the way.
