Book review: Recurring motifs include the Irish, Catholicism, food, baseball, poolhalls, rivers and bridges, and of course the mills that were the center of Lowell life for so many years.
Book review: After 37 years, Gretel Ehrlich has written a bookend to the well-known and loved classic book “The Solace of Open Spaces.”
Book review: “Arctic: Culture and Climate” should have been a vehicle to provide people struggling to be heard a chance to present their stories to a broader public. Instead they’re still getting filtered through a museum.
Prince Harry wrote the foreword for “Hospital by the Hill,’' by Chris Connaughton, the story of a young person whose mother worked at a hospital and died during the pandemic. It is being given to children who have experienced similar losses.
Book review: In Kazim Ali’s new work, Alaskan readers will find significant parallels to our history with Indigenous peoples and the generational traumas still present.
Book review: Clearly “Alaska’s Deadly Dozen” could have easily expanded beyond a dozen cases. The ones author Tom Brennan does include border on incredulous but absolutely happened.
Identified as a novel, Sean Ulman’s book is both fiction and novel in the other meaning of the word — new, innovative, unexpected, outside of traditional literary forms.
“These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong,” Dr. Seuss Enterprises said.
Hendrik accompanied four expeditions and emerged as the hero of the Polaris Expedition, when his and another Inuit man’s efforts prevented many deaths. After his journeys, he wrote this book.
The acclaimed poet was the longtime proprietor of City Lights, the bookstore and avant-garde publishing house that catapulted the Beat Generation to fame.
Book review: “Double Vision Alaska,” a collaboration by painter Jon Van Zyle and photographer Jeff Schultz, situates complementary imagery organized around the four seasons.
“A Most Wicked Conspiracy” describes the last sputtering days of the American Frontier (still clinging to its last stand in Alaska) colliding with the twilight of the Gilded Age.
Book review: Even for readers who think they may know plenty about whales and whaling, “Fathoms” is full of fascinatingly fresh information and intellectual inquiry.
Book review: Three narratives overlap as Talkeetna author Sarah Birdsall explores the fragile relationships in a small town where everyone seeks to escape their demons while completely enmeshed in them.
Illustrator Michaela Goade, a member of the Tlingit and Haida tribes in Southeast Alaska, was honored for her work on “We Are Water Protectors” by Carole Lindstrom.
Anthropologist Ann Fienup-Riordan worked with Yup’ik elders to create “They Say They Have Ears Through the Ground,” a collection of essays that express the belief that all animals have minds and are responsive to thoughts, words and deeds.
Book review: At age 11, Elisabeth’s twin sister walked away from home, saying she would return soon. She never did, and that mystery drives the plot of Raymond Fleischmann’s riveting debut novel.
Book review: Barrie Gilbert’s nearly fatal mauling is described in a few pages of “One of Us,” but his primary objective is to talk bears, with personal observations, hard science and a call for more study of the causes of bear behavior.
Book review: “We Live in Alaska,” republished in 2019, is a fascinating adventure story and account of Alaska in the ‘40s as experienced by a naïve, curious, spirited woman who was also a gifted writer.
Lopez was an influential author with Alaska connections whose writings addressed wide-ranging cultural, environmental, philosophical and spiritual themes.
