There is an alternate definition for meat, one that simply means the thing inside of the thing—i.e., the meat of a coconut or the meat of a problem. My inquiry aimed to understand the living, the dead, and the part in the middle as well, the thing inside of the thing. I’m trying to tell you why I had finally resolved to taste whale.
An ocean race from the Olympic Peninsula to Alaska, with no motors allowed.
An adventure on an Alaskan glacier with a new best friend.
Artist Eric Bealer was living the remote, rugged good life in coastal Alaska with his wife, Pam, an MS sufferer, when they made a dramatic decision: to exit this world together, leaving behind precise instructions for whoever entered their cabin first.
A statewide movement wants to remove populist Mike Dunleavy from office.
On the plight of indigenous suicide in Alaska.
Elizabeth Pierce impressed investors with hefty contracts for fiber—until they learned she was the only one who’d signed them.
The long, loving search for Betsy, bovine escape artist.
What the opioid crisis has done to one indigenous family in Alaska–the writer’s.
A tiny Alaskan island faces a threat as deadly as an oil spill—rats.
Twenty years after the world first heard about Christopher McCandless, fans of Into the Wild continue to risk their lives to reach the bus where he died.
Wolf-trapping school in Alaska.
It was just a kayaking trip. Then it upended their lives.
A trip to the Iditarod.
Alaska can show us the way.
An arrangement of convenience in early 20th century Alaska.
The life and times of Nora.
Internet death threats hound a young Alaskan after a successful hunt.
On Alaska’s North Slope, village schools aim to blend book learning with the Arctic reality.
When a creature mysteriously turns up dead in Alaska, veterinary pathologist Kathy Burek gets the call.
A story from the end of the earth.
A harrowing journey through Alaskan waters in an ancient tugboat.
Few Americans are as affected by climate change as Alaska’s Inupiat, or as dependent on the fossil-fuel economy.
Life on an oil rig in the Arctic.
Alaska brims with stories of people who vanish and are given up for dead. Once in a while, the dead return.
