R A L P H The Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy and the Humanities Volume
XXXIV, Number 2 Late, Late Winter 2003 |
NEW LISTINGS
Animals and the Holocaust,
Meetings with Remarkable Trees, and
Evangelicals and Menopause
REVIEWS The Road to Malpsychia: The Purple Land
Great Reviews of the Past
BRIEF REVIEWS
ARTICLES
God Vs. Gawd
READINGS Women and All-Talk Radio
POETRY
Three on Death
LETTERS MORE LETTERS
THE OFFICIAL RALPH
GENERAL INDEX
A PITHY SAMPLE
SUBSCRIBE
TEN YEARS OF RALPH
NOTES OF AN IMPENDING DISASTER
The Kindness of Sisters
"If you are filled with
nostalgie de la boue ---
especially for peculiar ramblings and
night-time sports of members of
the English upper class
from two centuries ago ---
this book will be your meat."
Humanistic Psychology and Our Discontents
"Ruth Benedict was a closet lesbian.
Margaret Mead did sloppy research.
Betty Friedan hid her radical past
when she published Feminine Mystique.
And Carl Rogers managed to destroy
an entire religious community."
"Hudson's work is more like
Tom Jones meets The Canterbury Tales,
with a bit of Cervantes and Ovid
thrown in for spice."
Sailing Alone Around the World
"This is one man, alone, braving
the Strait of Magellan, the Cape of Good Hope,
and the thousand storms that bedevil the hapless sailor.
His writing, as well as the journey,
are both so elegant that we come to love him,
his sturdy sloop, and his quiet ways."
Stalking an Analyst,
Shooting Under Fire:
The World of the War Photographer, and
Meditation, Transformation, and Dream Yoga
On a Lumbar Roll
"What a warped character I grew up to be,
knowing every card game under the sun
due to grandma Julia,
and worshipping the 3rd Avenue El."
"Gawd loves and blesses America.
This is why we put him on our
1, 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 dollar bills.
You might think that with Gawd on all our money,
He would love all of us equally but
He is most fond of ministers who
use the new up-to-date Bible,
put Him in their daily flag-pledge,
and have wives who stay at home and cook
and do the laundry without complaining."
The Children of La Ribiera
"Our two frumpy gringos ---
escaped from last night's nightmare ---
make their breakfast beside the lake,
smiled upon by the bedimpled children
of the enchanted isles."
"Women! He loves the way they walk,
the way they move,
the way they sigh,
they way they think, are, see,
grow old, love, laugh, die."
Harmless Fun
"I like to fondle strangers that I meet:
Young women, soft and warm and not too thin,
On buses, at the pictures, in the park.
I like to feel my skin against their flesh."
Sorrow and The Bride
"Why does the thin grey strand
Floating up from the forgotten
Cigarette between my fingers,
Why does it trouble me?"
The Lifting
"I saw the folds of skin like something
poured, a thick batter, I saw
his rueful smile, the cast-up eyes as he
shows me his old body, he knows
I will be interested, he knows I will find him
appealing.
College is Such
A Waste, and
Thoughts on Disability
RALPH --- and (gasp!)
The Other RALPH
Paradox-of-the-Month
A complete list of all books reviewed in RALPH,
arranged by title, including author, subject, and publisher,
plus a listing of all readings, articles and poems
that have appeared since 1994.
of our most notorious reviews
as collected in the hard-copy
"FOLIO"
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For our 10th Anniversary,
we'll be issuing a compendium of our
best reviews, articles, poems, and readings.
This is the Preface and Introduction
to the book that will be called
Rock Gardening in the Ukraine
For twenty years, our patient secretary
has kept order in RALPH's wretched offices.
However, due to the recent decline
of the DJIA, we may lose her.
Thoughts on how readers can help us ---
or more importantly her --- to survive.
Submitting Books The best way to get books to RALPH for review. Submitting Reviews Suggestions for would-be reviewers --- and payment schedule. History RALPH didn't spring full-blown from the brows of the gods: We've been around (in different guises) for over twenty-five years. The Fessenden Fund Describing the good works of RALPH's official godparent |
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