by Lisa Alexia | Feb 8, 2021 | Freedom and Security, Our Northern Neighbors, Reviews of Books and Other Media
Ryktheu is from a remote Northern village, near AlaskaYuri Rytkheu wrote stories that reflected the perspective of thousands of years of human evolution compressed over the course of his lifetime. Rural Alaskans will find much to appreciate in his books, because so...
by Lisa Alexia | Dec 2, 2019 | Our Backyard, Reviews of Books and Other Media
Update: Podcast with author of Floating CoastBathsheba Demuth, author of Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait, visited Alaska during the penultimate period of time before COVID-19 shut down most travel. During her stay in Anchorage, she spoke...
by Lisa Alexia | Oct 24, 2019 | Our Northern Neighbors, Reviews of Books and Other Media
Taaqtumi: “In the Dark”Dogs, blizzards, and ice dominate the dark landscape of Taaqtumi, An Anthology of Arctic Horror Stories. A supporting cast of zombies, nanurluk (giant polar bear), snowmobiles, and more, round out these horror stories from the far...
by M. Jacqui Lambert | Mar 9, 2019 | Our Northern Neighbors, Reviews of Books and Other Media
Split Tooth review, written by Iñupiaq author and publisher, M. Jacqui Lambert, who is from Kotzebue, Alaska, with family roots in Noorvik and Kiana. Split Tooth © 2018, by Tanya Tagaq, Published by Viking Canada of Penguin Random House Canada, September 25,...