Book review: George Harbeson Jr.'s roots in Alaska are deep, and the stories in this slightly uneven but mostly quite good collection often hark back to an Alaska that’s slipped away in the age of the internet.
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.
Book review: With its flying machines, newfangled radios, grubby mechanics and Arctic backdrop, this would be a great steampunk novel — were it not an entirely factual account of journalist-celebrity Walter Wellman.
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: “American Predator” isn’t easy reading. But by drawing from documents, court records, and interviews, Maureen Callahan produced a superb work of true crime writing.
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.
Monica Devine, who lives in Eagle River, turns to memoir writing, sifting through the back pages of her life for stories and reflecting them outward onto Alaska and the world.
Book review: Author, television host and all-around polymath Michael Palin has turned his attention to the story of the lead ship, turning out one of the most enjoyably readable books about 19th century British maritime excursions and the Royal Navy’s most famous nonmilitary failure to be had.
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: Wolf D. Storl’s book “Bear: Myth, Animal, Icon” takes bears out of the scientific and ecological realms, and places them squarely in the boundless worlds of human imagination.
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.
Book review: “The Tanana Chiefs” shows how the history of Alaska Native political struggles rests solidly on the foundation set by a meeting of Tanana River Athabascan tribal leaders with federal government officials in 1915.
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.”
Her novel “Beloved,” in which a mother makes a tragic choice to murder her baby to save the girl from slavery, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1988.
Book review: Drawing on history, mythology, science, spiritualism and an abundance of historic illustrations and maps, author Michael Bravo approaches the Pole from multiple directions, discovering new meanings and opening new possibilities.
Book review: John Bockstoce’s “White Fox and Icy Seas in the Western Arctic” examines the crucial period when the North American Arctic was fully swept into the modern world.
Book review: In this first novel by Chia Chia Lin, an immigrant Taiwanese family living near Anchorage in the 1980s confronts isolation and possibility.
These books are a great way to introduce children in Alaska and beyond to our state and its many cultures and wonders.
Book review: Marin Sardy’s “The Edge of Every Day” should open a wide window into the reality of people coping with mental illness.
Book review: 1909 was a climactic year for great accomplishments at the global extremes, historian Edward J. Larson tells us in his history of that year’s events.
