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 na?ve, 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.
From apocalyptic young adult fiction to memoirs and a cookbook, these are the works that stood out in an unusual year.
Book review: Laura Waterman finds her way into the thinking of the explorers to discern where the point of no return lies, the moment when living men are willing to eat their dead compatriots in a final desperate attempt at staving off their own deaths.
In classics such as “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,” “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” and “The Honourable Schoolboy,” Le Carre combined terse but lyrical prose with the kind of complexity expected in literary fiction.
Book review: “As the World Burns” is at once a dispiriting look at the fumbling and inertia of our society to respond to the climate crisis, and an encouraging, celebratory portrait of a new generation of leaders.
Book review: Whether the reader has never visited a glacier or has devoted their life to exploring them, they will find new perspectives and appreciations for these behemoth rivers of ice in this book.
