by Corinna Cook | Jul 25, 2020 | Our Communities, Our Health: Body, Mind & Spirit, Reviews of Books and Other Media
Editor’s Note: This review of Under Nushagak Bluff by Mia C. Heavener, is part one of two posts about pandemics in rural Alaska. Both posts feature creative responses from surviving descendants of the 1918 flu pandemic in Bristol Bay, Alaska. Historical notes...
by Lisa Alexia | May 31, 2020 | Our Communities, Reviews of Books and Other Media |
Water flows over and through the pebbles on the cover of Mostly Water: Reflections Rural and North. Water connects. Mary Odden, a long-time resident of rural Alaska, has graced us with this collection of essays written over the course of her many years in various...
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 Mary Odden | May 10, 2019 | Our Communities, Reviews of Books and Other Media
Rob McCue’s One Water is a refreshingly interior account, not only because the first person narrator reports from inside the action—often the interior of the city cab he drives in half the stories—but also in the sense of “interior” Alaska, with Fairbanks as its hub...