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Columns & Sections

Book Reviews & Library News
Wayward Journeys
The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin's Secret Service
by Andrew Meier
Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War II
by Brenden I. Koerner
review by David A. James

JTEL Meeting: A Full House
by Deirdre Helfferich

Cartoons
"Tazed"
by Dan Darrow

"Embarrassed"
by Peter Dunlap-Shohl

"Feral Children"
"Politically Correct War Journalism"
by Jamie Smith

Editorial
A Sustainable Ester

Movie Reviews
Movies from the Mile-High City
Zombieland
Bored to Death (HBO series)
reviews by Keely Buchanan

poetry
"Denial (Not A River)"
by Gregory K. Shipmanr

"Delayed Revelations"
"Faith"
by Yara Tomer

The Postal News
Announcements

Ester Vision
by Roy Earnest

Obituaries
Opal Besser-Blakeman
Toklas

Victuals & Drink
Chef of the Jungle
Nightmares in Costa Rica: Opening the Lookout
by David Mahler

FEATURES

The Alaskan City, Part II
The Long View, by Ross Coen

The roadhouses of Alaska's trails changed from waypoints along a route to becoming the route.

Bush's Multilateral Legacy: A Sea Change in America's Arctic Policy
by Barry Zellen

In the closing hours of his presidency, George Bush issued the first new American Arctic policy since 1994.

The Missionary Position on Capitalism
by Neal Matson

We have a severe economic and social problem: our economic system has fundamentally changed from one that expanded the middle class to one that resembles feudalism.

My Rogue Big Toe
Dose of Reality, by Neil Davis

Who would have thought that a toe could be so expensive?

Now What?
Seven Agricultural Myths, pt. 1
Outpost Agriculture, by Philip A. Loring

An ad by Monsanto in the Smithsonian Magazine with the disingenuous implication that technological advances in agriculture mean increased access to food inspired this series exploring myths of modern agriculture.

Photos from Anvik: The Beauty of the Derelict
by Ross Coen

Photos of abandoned vehicles in Anvik, Alaska.

Rachelle Dowdy: "From Here to There and There to Here"
by Jamie Smith

Geese flew south (well, were driven) from Ester to reside in the Ted Stevens International Airport.

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