| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
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From Mr. Warren Buffett
Science Fiction Writers Letters We Never Finished Reading |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| Our Most Beloved Pix |
The Editors of RALPH | [List] | A Compilation of Those Pages that Have Photographs or Drawings that Our Readers Return to Again and Again |
| Urgent Architecture
240 Sustainable Housing Solutions For a Changing World |
Bridgette Meinhold | (W. W. Norton) | Unusual Structures --- Some Familiar, Some Bizarre --- That Serve as Emergency Shelters after a Disaster |
| Things I Don't Want to Know*
On Writing |
Deborah Levy | (Bloomsbury) | A Short, Odd, Punchy Reflection on Her Life As it Grew from Her Novels |
| The Art of Dying | S. N. Goenka | (Vipassana Research) | A Memorial to the Master and Reflections on the Vipassana View of Death and Dying |
| 100 Poems
Old and New |
Rudyard Kipling | (Cambridge) | Some Great (and Controversial) Verse from the Colonial Master |
| Trapped*
My Life with Cerebral Palsy |
Fran Macilvey | (Skyhorse) | Reflections on Forty Years of Disability |
| Kumasi Realism --- 1951 - 2007 An African Modernism |
Atta Kwami | (Ghana Denmark Cultural Fund/ Hurst & Company) |
Hundreds of Drawings, Paintings, Road Signs and Popular Art From Ghana |
| Outside Stories |
Barry Lopez | (Trinity University Press) | Six Stories from Native Speakers with Introductions by Lopez |
| Shakespeare's Language [G] | Frank Kermode | (Farrar Straus) | Brilliant Exegesis from One of The Great English Critics |
| Pop-Left Notes
A Thousand-and-One Nights of the Ukraine |
Jon Gallant | [Article] | Some Revealing Insights into The Present Crises |
| The Snowman of Johannesburg |
Deborah Levy | [Reading] | Growing Up and Learning to Be a Writer in South Africa, England and Elsewhere |
| After the Fall |
Fran Macilvey | [Reading] | Part of the Day-to-Day with Muscular Dystrophy |
| Iowa &
Other Accidents |
Kate Northrop | Poem | Driving, and the Snow, and The Mississippi and the Accident |
| The Vision |
Leslie Seamans | [Poem] | A Classic Tribute to Royalty, and Love, and The Pain of Them Both |
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The Committee Against Bonsai Abuse
St Denys' Church Colmworth Letters We Never Finished Reading |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| Top Pop Hits |
The Editors of RALPH | [List] | A Compilation of Fifteen Reviews, Readings, Poems, or Articles that Our Readers Find Most Gratifying |
| Slowspoke*
A Unicyclist's Guide to America |
Mark Schimmoeller | (Chelsea Green) | One man on a one-man unicycle travels from North Carolina to New Mexcico |
| The Remedy Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, And the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis |
Thomas Goetz | (Gotham) | A Study of a 19th Century Genius --- And his Failed Attempt to Cure TB |
| Wake Up and Laugh
Dharma Teachings of Zen Master Daehaeng |
Daehaeng Kun Sunim | (Wisdom) | Five Talks Given by a Korean Zen Master |
| Best New Poets --- 2013
50 Poems from Emerging Writers |
Brenda Shaughnessy, Editor | (Rector and Board of Visitors of The University of Virginia) |
Fifty Poems Drawn from Over 4,000 Submissions |
| Faces in the Crowd* Sidewalks |
Valeria Luiselli | (Coffee House Press) | The Story of a Writer Who Discovers Gilberto Owen --- and, Possibly, Herself |
| Stars Go Blue
A Novel |
Laura Pritchett | (Counterpoint) | A Novel about the Effects Alzeihmer's on a Family |
| Tibetan Peach Pie
A True Account of an Imaginative Life |
Tom Robbins | (Ecco) | Tom Robbins' Memoir which --- He Tells Us --- Is Not a Memoir |
| The Last Sideshow [G] | Hanspeter Schneider | (Dazed) | A Visit to Gibsonton, Florida --- where old carney folk go to retire |
| The Immense Machinic Phylum | Maurizio Lazzarato | [Article] | Machines We Are Allowed to Use That Use Us |
| The Mordida [G] | C. A. Amantea | [Article] | A Device to Rid Us of Lawyers, Courts, Judges |
| The First Day of My Unicycle Trip Across America |
Mark Schimmoeler | [Reading] | How to Start a Cross-Country Journey on a Unicycle |
| Kimchi | Tom Robbins | [Reading] | The National Condiment of Korea |
| Banning the Orgasm [G] | Jonathan Margolis | [Reading] | The Power of Sexual Taboos |
| Denigration [G] | Harryette Mullen | [Poem] | Poem on Unseen Racism |
| What Would Freud Say? | Bob Hicok | [Poem] | Poem on Self-Inflicted Injuries |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
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Two Hotties
Bach Blows His Wig Where Will We Live? |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| A Dozen Hoots | The Editors | [List] | Twelve Articles, Readings, or Reviews that We Find to Be Rib-Tickling Funny |
| Mommy Man*
How I Went from Mild-Mannered Geek To Gay Superdad |
Jerry Mahoney | (Taylor Trade) | The Complete Adventures of Seeking, Finding, and Impregnating a Surrogate Mom --- And Getting (in This Case) Twins |
| Time and Again
The Classic Illustrated Novel |
Jack Finney | (Touchstone) | The Classic Story of Returning to New York City As it Existed 21 January 1882 |
| The Secret Keeper* | Kate Morton | (Brilliance Audio) | A Saga of a Sixty-Year-Old Mystery of Love, Family, and A Fatal Stabbing |
| Debt Resisters' Operations Manual |
Malav Kanuga, Series Editor | (PM Press) | How to Deal Sensibly with the Plight of Owing Too Much and Having Too Little |
| The Free
A Novel |
Willy Vlautin | (Harper Perennial) | The Plight of a Dying Veteran And His Assorted Caregivers |
| A Russian American Photographer In Tlingit Country Vincent Soboleff in Alaska |
Sergei Kan | (University of Oklahoma Press) | A Photographer on Angoon Island, Alaska (1890 - 1920) |
| San Francisco Lithographer
African American Artist Grafton Taylor Brown |
Robert J. Chandler | (University of Oklahoma Press) | An Expert African-American Lithographer in Northern California, 1860 - 1880 |
| A World of Watchers[G]
An Informal History of The American Passion for Birds |
Joseph Kastner | (Sierra Club) | 150 Years of Bird- Watching in America |
| Family Reunion:[G]
Poems about Parenting Grown Children |
Sondra Zeidenstein, Editor | (Chicory Blue) | You Think Parenting Stops When They Go Out the Door. Think Again. |
| Middle Finger on a Stick | Mike Ervin | [Article] | How Does One Who Has Little Use of Arm, Hand (or Finger) Offer the Universal Sign of Disapproval? |
| Pornographia[G] A Matriarchal Society |
A A Gill | [Article] | A Close Study of the Making of a Pornographic Movie |
| Living on the Margins of The Debt System Food |
P. M. Press | [Reading] | The Art of Dumpster Diving |
| Buying a Baby Stroller | Jerry Mahoney | [Reading] | How Do Two Gay Guys Casually Purchase Something Special for Their Upcoming Toddler |
| Theodore
Roosevelt:
An Intimate Biography |
William Roscoe Thayer | (Constable & Co.) | A Superb Example of Virginia Woolf's Talent For Book Reviews |
| Ballad of The Bread Man | Charles Causley | [Poem] | A Treatise on The Second Coming (In the English Outback) |
| Tootie-Fruit ME
& Ass-Grasp LA |
L. L. Lark | [Poem] | "They say we were part of the Breadfruit Conspiracy" |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
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Gutzon Borglum Six Wars at a Time Nekkid Coworkers PLEASE LET IT BEEN VERY URGENT PLEASE |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| Ghastly Poetry | The Editors | [List] | Thirteen Reviews from the Past About Ghastly Books of Poetry |
| Emaho Tibet!
Blessings from The Land of Snows |
Simhananda | (Orange Palm and Magnificent Magus Publications) | An Odd If Not Endearing Photographical Album of A Tibetan Monastery |
| Doctored
The Disillusionment of An American Physician |
Sandeep Jauhar | (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) | A Doctor Reveals the What and the Why Of American Medicine Gone Wrong |
| Beloved Strangers
A Memoir |
Maria Chaudhuri | (Bloomsbury) | She Goes from Bangladesh to an America College --- and Tries to Figure Out Why Her Life Is So Miserable |
| A Fighting Chance* | Elizabeth Warren | (Metropolitan) | A Strong Attack on Those Who Control American Finances and Politics By a Newly Elected Senator |
| Augustus
The First Roman Emperor |
Adrian Goldsworthy | (Yale University Press) | Augustus, Rendered Anonymous Because He Was Just Too Benign |
| The Fixer*
The Notorious Life Of A Front-Page Bail Bondsman |
Ira Judelson | (Touchstone) | You May Not Want to Known Any of This --- Unless You Need to Get Out of Jail Free Or Maybe Not-So-Free |
| Zen Cancer Wisdom*
Tips for Making Each Day Better |
Daju Suzanne Friedman | (Wisdom) | Advice from One Who Has Been There --- and Alas, Did Not Survive |
| Shrinkage
Manhood, Marriage, and The Tumor that Tried to Kill Me |
Bryan Bishop | (Thomas Dunne Books) | A Somewhat JuvenileTale of Cancer and Survival |
| Combat Trauma[G]
A Personal Look at Long-Term Consequences |
James D. Johnson | (Rowman & Littlefield) | Thirteen Combatants Tell What It Is Like To Live with the Actuality of Being in the Fields of War |
| Reading Lolita in Tehran | Azar Nafisi Read by Livette Lecat |
(Recorded Books Unabridged) | A Long Rambling Account of Reading Books that Are Banned |
| Terence McKenna on Death and Dying | Erik Davis | [Interview] | How It Feels When You Know that Your Are Dying |
| Letter from Skåne |
Dr. Phage | [Article] | Sweden As Seen Through the Eyes of An Intrepid Comic-Book Reader |
| A Fire-Spouting Toaster | Elizabeth Warren | [Reading] | How a Toaster Tried to Set Warren's Kitchen on Fire, and How It Inspired Her to Set Up the CFPB |
| The Origins of The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | Elizabeth Warren | [Reading] | Setting Up an Oversight Committee to Protect Us From Overweening Banks and Corporations |
| The Inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt | Hugh Gallagher | [Reading] | The Inauguration of FDR In the Midst of the Depression |
| Bluebird | Charles Bukowski | [Poetry] | "there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him" |
| Self-Portrait | So Chongju Translated by Peter H. Lee |
[Poetry] | "I was a mother's son with dirty fingernails Under a lamp by the mud wall With bushy hair and staring eyes." |
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Consumers Report and the Upcoming Battle with the Geezers I want to have a common relationship with you . . . |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| Twelve Hits | The Editors | [List] | The Reviews, Readings, Poems And Articles from the Last 20 Years That Commanded the Most Hits Over the Last Month |
| Debt to the Bone-Eating Snotflower* |
Sarah Lindsay | (Copper Canyon Press) | Sixty Great (but Gooshy) Poems Dedicated to Whales, Squid, and Cephalopods |
| The Unknown Bridesmaid | Margaret Forster | (Europa Editions) | A Psychotherapist Confronts Her Own Demons As She Confronts theDemons of Others |
| Shortcut
How Analogies Reveal Connections, Spark Innovation, and Sell Our Greatest Ideas |
John Pollack | (Gotham Books) | The Case for Analogies --- the Joining of Dissimilar Ideas As a Creative Force --- that Can Easily Turn to Disaster |
| Newcomb Pottery:
A Visual Treasury |
John Canaday Suzanne Ormond and Mary E. Irvine |
(Pelican) | Revelations of New Orleans Art Pottery as Developed by the Ladies' Decorative Art League Starting in 1885 |
| Signs and Machines*
Capitalism and the Production of Subjectivity |
Maurizio Lazzarato | (Semiotext(e)) | An Astonishing Investigation of Machines: How They Own Us, Drive Us (Sometimes Mad) --- All While We Pretend to Own and Drive Them |
| The Vegetarian Cook's Bible | Pat Crocker | (Robert Rose) | The Controversial Cookbook that May (Or May Not) Be Pure Vegan |
| Metaphysical Odyssey into The Mexican Revolution* Francisco I. Madero and His Secret Book, Spiritist Manual |
Catherine Mansell Mayo | (Dancing Chiva Literary Arts) | The Father of the Mexican Revolution Revealed to Be a Committed Spiritist |
| America's U-Boats Terror Trophies of World War I | Chris Dubbs | (University of Nebraska) | How Six World War I Submarines Made Their Way to America for A Rather Dubious Mission |
| Sometimes a Great Notion[G] | Ken Kesey Tom Stechschulte Narrator |
(Recorded Books) | Kesey's Great Novel about The Great Stamper Family of The Great Northwest |
| Communion[G] | Whitley Strieber | (Morrow) | The Original (and Very Successful) I-Was-Kidnapped-and-Lovingly- Raped-By-Aliens Book |
| My Life is Ruined | Mike Ervin | [Article] | A Malfunctioning Voice-Recognition Machine Changes a Disabled Man's Life Forever |
| The Death of Poetry | Robert Littell | [Reading] | Osip Mandelstam, a Man Who Died for a Single Poem |
| Mexican Buses[G] | Sybille Bedford | [Reading] | The Adventure of the Century: Bus Journeys Across Mexico Seven Decades Ago |
| Cephalopod and Star and Sea | Sarah Lindsay | [Poem] | One Hand a Starfish, The Other an Octopus |
| Medicine Woman[G] | Cheryl Savageau | [Poem] | "Now white women come into my shop and ask me to bless their houses (what's wrong with them, I want to ask)" |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
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Chernobyl Grafton Tyler Brown Metaphysical Odyssey into The Mexican Revolution Francisco I. Madero and his Secret Book Spiritist Manual |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
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Internal Medicine A Doctor's Stories | Terrence Holt | (Liveright Publishing Corporation) | A Doctor Tells of His Initiation into the New World of Medicine |
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Singing Bronze: A History of Carillon Music | Luc Rombouts | (Lipsius Leuven) | The Great Steeple Bells From the 13th Century until Now |
| Vowels to the Ukraine | Anon | [Reading] |
The Need to Export Large Numbers of Vowels to The Ukraine (Because They Don's Have Enough) |
|
Resident On Call[B] A Doctor's Reflection on His First Years at Mass General | Scott A. Rivkees, M.D. | (Lyons Press) | Another 'So Now You're a Doctor' Book |
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The Minotaur's Head[B] An Inspector Mock Investigation | Marek Krajewski | (Melville International) | Polish Murders, with Herrings, Horseradish and pickled cucumbers for Breakfast |
| Sex After . . . [B] Women Share How Intimacy Changes As Life Changes | Iris Krasnow | (Gotham Books) | relationships and self-realization and sex and sex |
| War of Attrition[B] | William Philpott | (Overlook) | The Early Days of WWII |
| To Know the Revolution | Tony Judt | [Reading] | Memories of Being on the Streets of Paris Back in 1968 |
| Advice | Malgorzata Skalbania | [Poem] | avoid scientific phrases |
| A Father Rebukes His Son | Amos Oz | [Poem] | "Listen carefully. This is your father speaking. A simple man, a rather grey man, and so on and so forth, but still your father." |
| Category | Representative Titles, Subjects or Authors |
|---|---|
| PHOTOGRAPHY | The Library of Congress, Canadian Railroads, Mississippi Juke Joints, The Smithsonian Institute, Bloomsbury, Camping, Lizards and more. |
| SEX | Zen Sex, Paul Krassner, Pornography and the Politics Of Fantasy in America, Sex, Monsters, and The Middle Ages, The Victorian Nude, Going Down, the FCC |
| ART BOOKS | Leopoldo Méndez, Lois Greenfield, British Wood-Engraved Book Illustrations 1904 - 1940, 2,500 Works from Cave to Contemporary, The Crucifixion in American Art, The Texas Post Office Murals, James Ensor |
| TERRIFIC BOOKS | Where Stuff Comes From, Breath Sweeps Mind, The Curious Lives Of Human Cadavers, EMPIRE, My Late-Life Adventures In Sex and Romance, Tattoos, the Disappearing West, Very Bad Men, and My Deep Love for them All |
| ANIMALS | James Thurber, Rats, Lice, and History, Bonobo Handshake, Millions of Monarchs Bunches of Beetles, Nabokov's Butterflies, A Fly for the Prosecution |
| RELIGION | The Lamed-Vovnik, Essential Listening from the Alan Watts Audio Workshop, Padre Serra Sells Baja, We're All Doing Time, Padre Serra Sells Baja |
| POETRY | Guillaume Apollinaire, Allen Ginsberg, The Angel, Paul Celan, How Poor a Thing Is Man, English Con Salsa, Amos Oz, Why I Am A Whore |
| PSYCHOLOGY | Sigmund Freud, William Halstead, And the Miracle Drug Cocaine, Manet & Monet & Marx & Freud, Couples Therapy For the Disabled, Samovars and Bedlam, Psychic Healers, The Psychotherapist Is Always Late |
| THE CLASSICS | Frank Kermode, To Die and Go We KnowNot Where, Robert Browning, Jean Racine, Vanity Fair, A Doll's House, Hard Times |
| INTERVIEWS | Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, L. L. Doctorow, Paul McCarthy, Terence McKenna on Death and Dying, S. J. Perelman, The Automobile Is a Wheelchair |