| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject | |
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| Twenty-one Hits | The Editors of RALPH | [List] | Links to the Articles, Reviews, Poems, Readings and Letters in RALPH that Continue to Receive The Most Monthly Hits | |
| The Past from Above Aerial Photographs of Archaeological Sites |
Georg Gerster Charlotte Trümpler, Editors |
(The J. Paul Getty Museum) |
Two-Hundred Fifty Ancient Sites As Photographed (and Described) from Above | |
| The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams[B] |
David Roessel, Nicholas Moschovakis Editors |
(New Directions) |
The Occasional (and Often Merry) Poems of the Dramatist | |
| An Absolute Gentleman[B] |
R. M. Kinder | (Counterpoint) |
Anatomy of a Serial Killer In Novel Form | |
| Body, Remember[B] |
Kenny Fries | (Wisconsin) |
Memoirs of Growing Up Poor, Disabled and Gay | |
| My Brilliant Career | Dr. Phage | [Article] |
How to Survive Academic Meetings; Basic Responsibilities of PhDs; Cats | |
| Dappled Things |
Michael Foley | (Dufour Editions) | Parental (and Other) Loves | |
| Glory in a Camel's Eye[G] Trekking through the Moroccan Sahara |
Jeffrey Tayler | (Houghton Mifflin) |
Forty Days and Forty Nights By Camel Across Morocco |
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| Fasting Spiritual Freedom Beyond Our Appetites |
Lynne M. Baab | (Formatio) |
Many Different Forms of Fasting Described | |
| Ham and the Moon | Jesse Lee Kercheval | (University of Iowa) |
A Great Home-Cooked Meal (For the Dying) | |
| My Life In France | Julia Child | (Random House Audio) |
The French School of Cooking (And of Living) Remembered |
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| Neither/Nor W. H. Fowler Modern English Usage "Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer" La Uña del Gato Multiple Personality Disorders Functional Auditory Hallucinations My Bloody Life Reymundo Sanchez |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, Correspondence, and Any of the 3,000 (or More) Pictures, Drawings, and Photographs That Have Appeared Over the Past Thirteen Years | |
| Medieval Obscenities | Nicola McDonald, Editor | (University of York) |
Some of More Lurid Passages Drawn from the Tenth to Fifteenth Century Poems, Church Ornaments and Official Records | |
| The Verbover Rebbe | Michael Chabon | [Reading] |
The Head Rabbi from The Yiddish Policemen's Union | |
| On Retirement* 75 Poems |
Robin Chapman, Judith Strasser, Editors |
(University of Iowa) | A Multitude of Poems on Ageing | |
| Mornings on Horseback | David McCullough | (Recorded Books) |
The First Thirty or So Years Of the Oyster Bay Republican | |
| World-Wide Slum Growth | Jeremy Harding | [Reading] |
The Coming of Mega-Slums | |
| The Yiddish Policemen's Union* | Michael Chabon | (Harper Audio/Recorded Books) |
A Dark Detective Story about "The Frozen Chosen" |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Twelve Stars | The Editors of RALPH | [List] | Books from the First Half of The Year that Were Our All-time Favorites |
| Frogs: Inside Their Remarkable World |
Ellin Beltz | (Firefly) | Pretty Frogs and Their Progeny |
| Debussy The Quiet Revolutionary |
Victor Lederer | (Amadeus Press) | The Life and Times of the Romantic Composer (with CD) |
| The Book That Changed My Life 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate The Books that Matter Most to Them |
Roxanne J. Coady Joy Johannessen, Editors |
(Bantam) |
A Compendium of Titles that Rocked Writers' Hearts |
| Thoreau's Laundry* | Ann Harleman | (Southern Methodist University Press) | Twelve Short Stories by A Modern Master |
| True Grit |
Charles Portis Donna Tartt, Reader |
(Recorded Books) | The Wry Old West |
| Generals Die in Bed* | Charles Yale Harrison | (Annick/Firefly) | A WWI Novel from 1920s Canada |
| The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic --- And How it Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World |
Steven Johnson | (Riverhead) | Dr. John Snow and Cholera |
| Horse
Latitudes Poems |
Paul Muldoon | (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) | Jim-Jams from Princeton |
| Where Stuff Comes From:[G] How Toasters, Toilets, Cars, Computers, and Many Other Things Come to Be As They Are |
Harvey Molotch | (Routledge) |
A Strange (and Funny) Compiliation of the Origin of Things |
| Ooga-Booga[B]* | Frederick Seidel | (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) | Weird (and Wonderful) Poetry from East Hampton (And Thereabouts) |
| Not that
You Asked[B] Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions |
Steve Almond | (Random House) | Essays from a Somewhat Funny Almond |
| Falling Man[B] |
Don DeLillo John Slattery, Reader |
(Recorded Books) | 9/11 Through the Eyes of A Somewhat Jaded Novelist |
| Sleeping in Academia Dada Old Texas Towns Snakes and Earrings |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH That Have Appeared Over the Past Thirteen Years |
| Samovars and Bedlam | Michael Ingall | [Article] | Memories of Working in A Psychiatric Unit in Boston. |
| Blue-John and Bust-Head | Charles Portis | [Reading] | Looking for a Cowboy Detective in Arkansas A Century Ago |
| An Interlude
In the War |
Charles Yale Harrison | [Reading] | WWI Soldiers on Billet |
| The South Berkeley Branch Closes | Ishmael Reed | [Poem] | Reading from 75 Poems On Retirement |
| Riddle of Self-Worth | Christopher Kennedy | [Poem] | Dinner at Six for the Cannibal |
| East Hampton Airport | Frederick Seidel | [Poem] | Long Island Airport (In Verse) |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vintage Amis[G] |
Martin Amis | (Vintage) | Essays and Fiction of the Contemporary Literary Figure |
| Las Soldaderas:[B] Women of the Mexican Revolution |
Elena Poniatowska | (Cinco Punto Press) | Pictures of Women from the Revolution: 1912 - 1920 |
| The Secret River[B] | Kate Grenville | (Canongate) | Novel about English Prisoners and the Aboriginal Wars of Australia |
| Openwork[B] | Adria Bernardi | (Southern Methodist University Press) | Novel about Italian Immigrants in America |
| When Illness Goes Public[B]: Celebrity Patients and How We Look at Medicine |
Barron H. Lerner | (Johns Hopkins University Press) | Thirteen Stories of the Famous (and Not-So-Famous) Ill |
| Unknown Friends | Carl Dennis | (Penguin Books) | Poems by the Pulitzer Prize Winner |
| Exit Ghost | Philip Roth | (Houghton Mifflin) | Zuckerman Revisited (With Diapers) |
| Carl Friedrich Gauss Meets Immanuel Kant |
Daniel Kehlmann | [Reading] | Meeting of the Two Famous Scientists |
| Grass | Carl Dennis | [Reading] | God and Lawn-Covering (Without Fertilizer) |
| Measuring the World* | Daniel Kehlmann | (Pantheon) | A Fictional Retelling (With Gusto) of the Life of the Scientist |
| Elena | Pat Mora | [Reading] | Poem of Immigrant Women |
| Ram Dass Dada Old Texas Towns Unforeseen Consequences of Cataract Operations Edgar Allen Poe D. H. Lawrence Trumpets |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| Medieval and Renaissance Treasures* |
Paul Williamson, Peta Motture, Editors |
(Victoria and Albert/Abrams) | Works of Art from 600 A. D. - 1600 A. D. |
| The Last of the Mohicans | James Fenimore Cooper | (Books on Tape) | Indian (and French & Indian War) Lore from 1826 |
| Muni Court (and the Ants) | Dr. Phage | [Article] | Some Thoughts on Municipal Court Jury Service (and Intractable Insects) |
| Your Own, Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath |
Stephanie Hemphill | (Knopf) | Two Hundred Poems about The Life of Sylvia Plath |
| Defining the World:* The Extraordinary Story of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary |
Henry Hitchings | (Picador) | A History of the First Real Dictionary of the English Language |
| The Making of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary |
Henry Hitchings | [Reading] | The Room Described In which Johnson Made the Dictionary |
| The Laws Field Guide To the Sierra Nevada |
John Muir Laws | (Heyday Books) | The Birds and Beasts (and The Scat) of the High Sierras |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fire in the City Girolamo Savonarola and the Struggle for The Soul of Renaissance Florence |
Lauro Martines | (Oxford) |
The Life and Times of the Inventor of "The Bonfire of the Vanities" |
| Analogue | Zoe Leonard | (Western Center for the Arts/ MIT Press) | Stark photographs from Uganda, Cuba, Mexico, Chicago, New York |
| Where Have All The Soldiers Gone?* The Transformation of Modern Europe |
James J. Sheehan | (Houghton Mifflin) | How Europe Lost Its Militaristic Impulses |
| Mr. Sebastian and The Negro Magician |
Daniel Wallace | (Recorded Books) |
Life and Times in an Old Circus in the Old South, 1950s |
| Trespass | Valerie Martin | (Nan A. Talese/ Doubleday) |
A middle-class New Yorker falls in love with a Croatian (and her family) |
| The Canon A Whirligig Tour of The Beautiful Basics of Science |
Natalie Angier | (HighBridge Audio) | A Tour through the Five Basic Sciences |
| Prometheus The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer |
Kai Bird Martin J. Sherwin |
(Blackstone Audio) |
The Life of One that Some Dubbed "The Galileo of the 20th Century" |
| The Illness Narratives[G] Suffering, Healing, and The Human Condition |
Arthur Kleinman | (Basic) | A Doctor, Working with "Incurables," Describes His Feelings |
| Sex Texts from The Bible*[B] Selections Annotated and Explained |
Teresa J. Hornsby | (SkyLight Paths) |
One of the Faithful Explains the Why of Certain Scandalous Parts of The Bible |
| The Last Voyage Of Columbus[B] | Martin Dugard | (Recorded Books) |
The Fourth (and Last) (And Perhaps the Worst) Of the Navigator's Trips |
| Ambers Aglow:[B] An Anthology of Contemporary Polish Women's Poetry |
Regina Grol, Editor |
(Host Publications) | Twenty-Nine Poets and Two Hundred Poems From Modern Poland |
| What Happens to Review Copies of Books Sent to RALPH? Also: H. L. Mencken Wislawa Szymborska Claude Debussy The Dew-Line Wall Street and Ads in RALPH |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| The Dew-Line Bears | Paul Nickel | [Article] |
Should We Fret about The Polar Bears? |
| Comme Les Autres | Jon Gallant | [Article] |
Growing Up with "A Downser" Child |
| Filming in Africa | Alexander Kluge | [Reading] |
The Revolution (DVDs over Film) |
| Friesenhahn's Act | Alexander Kluge | [Reading] | A Circus Act (Complete with Hyenas) |
| A Gypsy Child | Salomea Kapuscinska | [Poetry] | Contemporary Polish Poetry |
| The Touch and The Taste | Urszula M. Benka | [Poetry] | Contemporary Polish Poetry |
| Advice for Her Who Was Named A Woman |
Julia Hartwig | [Poetry] | Contemporary Polish Poetry |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | Paul Clammer | (Lonely Planet) | How to Get into, Around (and Out of) this Treasured Travel-Spot |
| Beethoven's Oeuvre | Dr.Phage | [Article] | Thoughts on Available Recordings of the Master |
| Beethoven: The Universal Composer | Edmund Morris | (Recorded Books) | A Concise (and Entertaining) Biography of the Composer |
| Chopin:[B] A Listener's Guide to The Master of the Piano |
Victor Lederer | (Amadeus Press) | A Biography (with CD*) of the Romantic Master |
| Beowulf:*[B] A New Verse Translation |
Seamus Heaney | (Recorded Books) | Life and Good Times in 10th Century Mead Halls |
| Gentlemen of The Road[B] |
Michael Chabon | (Random House Audio) | Other 10th Century Antic Vagabondages |
| The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe |
Paula Fox | (Picador) | Memories of London, Paris, and Warsaw --- 1946 - 1947 |
| The Dew-Line Bears The Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada Mark O'Brien and Self-Publishing Hitler and Syphilis Sylvia Plath Contact with the Deceased (Stepwise Technique) |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| Inventing Los Alamos: The Growth of An Atomic Community |
Jon Hunner | (Oklahoma) | The Creation, Life, and Old Age of a Very Special City |
| Leopoldo Méndez:* Revolutionary Art and The Mexican Print |
Deborah Caplow | (University of Texas Press) | A Luxurious History of One of the Supreme Artists of 20th Century Mexico |
| Molvanîa[G] | Santo Cilauro, et. al. | Overlook Press | A Strange Travel-Guide to a Very Strange Country |
| The New Earth from Above: 365 Days |
Yann Arthus-Bertrand | (Abrams) | A Stupendous and Gorgeous Day-by-Day Overview of the World |
| A Society Marching to Its Certain Ruin |
Barbara Tuchman | [Reading] | The Edwardian Age Seen in Self-Destruct |
| Who Beats Your Heart? | L. W. Milam | [Article] | What to Do When They Stick a Pacemaker in Your Chest |
| Ticket to Exile: A Memoir |
Adam David Miller | (Heyday Books) | A Soulful Memoir of Growing Up Black in South Carolina |
| The Birth of the Unknown Soldier |
James J. Sheehan | [Reading] | Western Nations Learning How to Commemorate the Millions Who Died in Battle |
| The Year of The Fog |
Michelle Richmond | (Blackstone) | A Novel about a Missing Child |