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  • Lauren O'Neal

    Mush!

    It’s that time of year again, the time we’ve all been waiting for: Iditarod season. What? You don’t follow the annual dogsled race through a thousand miles of brutal Alaskan wilderness commemorating the 1925 transportation of life-saving diphtheria serum from…

  • Caribou
    Adrienne Lindholm

    Caribou

    When you come to my house and eat the caribou stew I’ve made, I want you to feel the rifle heavy as lead in the grip of my hands, the shiny brass bullet between my fingers, and how smoothly the…

  • Aimee Loiselle

    The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #42: Aimee Loiselle in Conversation with Grace Smith

    I met Grace Smith (Yup’ik) when I was researching an article for The Circle, a Native American newspaper in the Twin Cities. The Native community in the Twin Cities is very complex, with people from many different tribes and nations.

  • Adam Robinson

    Adam Robinson: The Last Book I Loved, Alaska

    I can’t figure out why James Michener gets such short shrift. Is it because he’s too popular? Or because he had help with his painstaking geographical research? The critical disregard doesn’t bother me, though, except that I wish there was…