Book review: Richard Nelson, one of Alaska’s most admired writers who also recorded and narrated the radio show “Encounters,” evolved in his later years into an unlikely, irreverent holy man, his biographer writes.
Book review: Author Buddy Levy brings a fine novelist’s sense of storytelling to his narrative histories. "Labyrinth of Ice" is an essential volume in recent literature concerning the far north.
Book review: Chris Lundgren has put together a remarkable book covering boat sinkings, plane crashes, wildlife encounters, hypothermia and various examples of being lost and endangered.
Book review: “The Big Wild Soul of Terrence Cole” is an engaging, eclectic collection of essays by friends, colleagues, and students.
Book review: The guidebook “Northwest Coast and Alaska Native Art” is a handy introduction that provides cultural contexts and makes room for the voices of contemporary practitioners.
Book review: “Of Bears and Ballots” is the story of Lende's experience running for election, winning, learning the intricacies (and challenges) of governing, and, finally, surviving a recall election.
Book review: As we set out to explore our own massive backyard more closely than usual, a dependable resource is a good thing to have. Alaskan outdoors and travel writer Lisa Maloney provides just that.
Book review: “Mostly Water” by Mary Odden is an especially welcome antidote to the discord of our current times, a reminder of the pleasures to be found in friendships, families and the unexpected.
Book review: Jon Mooallem tells the story of the 1964 Good Friday Earthquake, and also of how ordinary people come together and rise to meet the unexpected in ways they didn’t think possible.
Book review: Tara Neilson reflects in this fascinating memoir on her childhood, when her family of seven lived at the remote site of a burned-down cannery surrounded by the Tongass Forest.
Book review: Eric Wade, an Alaskan of 40 years, pursued his dream of finding some land, building a cabin and living apart from the world. In “Cabin: An Alaska Wilderness Dream,” he tells us what happened along the way.
Book review: Yuri Rytkheu was born in 1930 to a family of hunters and trappers. A delightful small book, “When the Whales Leave” will remind Alaska readers of the ties between our northern peoples.
Book review: Margery Fee’s “Polar Bear” explores how, outside of the Arctic, humans have rarely understood polar bears. But we have repeatedly projected our shifting values onto them.
Book review: Author Rick Steiner has combined in one volume a succinct and up-to-date summary of our global environmental situation along with a well-formulated examination of solutions.
Book review: The essays in “The Whale & the Cupcake” are drawn from veteran journalist Julia O’Malley’s journeys across the state, learning how different foods shape Alaskans.
Review: It’s the fiction in this edition that’s perhaps most outstanding. The majority would be considered “realistic,” and among the most emotionally effective present the lives of children.
Book review: Giles Whittell devoted much of his lifetime to seeking out and immersing himself in a weather phenomenon that can be in turn a riotous joy, a beautiful sight, a nuisance or a cause of horrifying death.
Book review: In “Under Nushagak Bluff,” Mia Heavener has gifted readers with a story both dreamy and authentic.
From “Raven’s Gift” to “Shadows on the Koyukuk," here are David James and Nancy Lord’s top picks.
Book review: “Rinn’s Crossing” is a political thriller, mystery, procedural, environmental treatise, cultural commentary, morality tale and romance.
