Book review: When, in the first pages, a strange man, “tall as a tree and blotting out the rest of the woods,” barrels into 17-year-old Tracy and knocks her unconscious, the questions begin.
Book review: "North" employs words and accompanying images to offer perceptions on what it is to be an Alaskan, how life here differs from elsewhere, and to ponder what the future holds.
Book review: Alaskans are rightfully skeptical when writers from Outside arrive in our state to tell the story of “the last frontier.” It's a real pleasure to discover a book that defies that expectation.
Book review: By all measures he was a hero. But when John Rae wrote that he had been told Sir John Franklin’s men had resorted to cannibalism, he crossed a line Victorian England would not allow to be breached.
Book review: "A Wild Promise" aims not only to share an amazing place with readers but to advocate for its protection.
From the joy of moose hunting to the pain of drug addiction and an ode to the Sawzall, work by Julie Hungiville LeMay and David McElroy show that poetry in the Far North is thriving.
Book review: There are definitely elements that will remind Alaska readers of reality television shows based here. But there's a more serious, and perhaps truer storyline in the book.
Book review: While primarily targeted at young Alaska Native children, these books are delightful and offer a wonderful introduction to the ancient cultures of Alaska and the Canadian coast.
Book review: The now-classic tale "Johnny's Girl" tells Kim Rich's childhood growing up in the underworld of Anchorage in the 1960s and '70s. "A Normal Life" picks up where that book left off.
Review: Bill McKibben’s novel celebrates free spirits, small-town friendliness, local commerce, radio, and winter.
Book review: The fusion of place-based writing and art is the sort of thing a small regional publisher like McRoy & Blackburn is perfectly suited for.
Book review: Sherman Alexie calls Mailhot “the metaphorical love child of Emily Dickinson and Crazy Horse.” The New York Times has called the book a “sledgehammer.” Both are appropriate descriptors.
Book review: The story of Bering’s journey across Asia has been told elsewhere, but this is the first account for to cover it in depth for a general audience.
Book Review: In "Deadly Solution," Keenan Powell's first book, an Anchorage attorney with a troubled past investigates a murder.
Book review: Ken McGoogan, an Arctic historian, seeks with this book to lay out the entire story of efforts at finding the Northwest Passage in "Dead Reckoning."
Book review: Juli Berwald, the author of "Spineless," is an ocean scientist who left her job to be a science writer and to follow a private enthusiasm for all things jellyfish.
Book review: This is an intensely personal book and one that will provoke intensely personal responses from its readers.
Book review: The patriarch of the Kilcher clan and father of Jewel recounts a hard upbringing on a homestead in Homer.
Book review: "Minik: the New York Eskimo" tells the forgotten tale of an orphan who was brought from Greenland to New York to be a "living exhibit" at the American Museum of Natural History.
Book review: These two memoirs, together or apart, are songs to the value of wilderness, the attachments of family and the power of adventurous living.
