Category: Letter

The Hart family (Brooke and Sean, along with sons Rio and Kai) of Minneapolis stumbled into an unusual situation while visiting Tanzania: A meeting with members of the Hadzabe, a nomadic hunter-gatherer tribe situated in the Yaeda Valley, was followed by a barbed exchange of sorts. The Hadzabes’s arrows won out against The Rake, Brooke…

Hello to all at the Rake! We are just back from holiday in Budapest and wanted to tell you what a great job you do with this rag! So packed with articles and stories of quality it not only kept me reading at the Szechenyi baths but for muchof the long plane ride also! Photo…

The Minnesota heat waves had passed in September when, visiting hersister, Anna Lefebvre, in Minneapolis Theresa Gumbleton and hersidekick, the shaded Sheila Sheils from Derry and Carndonagh, Irelandtook a few days Up North lake lounging on Lower South Long Lake. Author(s) and Location: Theresa Gumbleton and Sheila Sheils, Lower South Long Lake Letter Type: Red…

Reading The Rake in a hand-pulled rickshaw is not recommended for a weak stomach. Tim Leone-Getten and Leslie Olmen visited Calcutta, India with other area teachers on a South Asia teacher exchange program with Hamline University and Relief International. Author(s) and Location: Tim Leone-Getten and Leslie Olmen, Calcutta Letter Type: Red Handed

This ancient mountaintop city is a beautiful and mysterious place, sure. But our own Peruvian puzzler is this: Why on earth is Machu Picchu such a popular Red-Handed picture spot? Our records indicate it gets quite a few visits from Rake readers. And they look to be a tough bunch, too. St. Paulites Katie and…

I don’t save many magazine articles anymore (I filled up too many file cabinets that way while working as an Utne Reader editor), but I intend to save Jeannine Ouellette’s very fine feature on the death of the American imagination from the November 2007 Rake. This is the kind of sweeping, thorough thought piece that…