Issue #4
Fall, 1995

American Talk:
The Words and Ways of American Dialects
Robert Hendrickson
[Viking]
Linguistics

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
Luis Sepúlveda
[Harvest]
Modern Spanish-American Literature

Issue #6
Spring, 1996

In Flanders Fields
Leon Wolff
[Time-Life]
History of WWI

The Stranger
Albert Camus
[Knopf]
Modern French Fiction

Full of Life
John Fante
[Black Sparrow]
Modern American Fiction

De-Architecture
James Wines
[Rizzoli]
Criticism of Architecture, Culture

Spiegel: The Man Behind the Pictures
Andrew Sinclair
[Little, Brown]
Popular Culture and Biography

Memoirs of My Nervous Illness
Daniel Paul Schreber
[Harvard]
Psychological Autobiography, Lunacy

Spared Angola:
Memories from a Cuban-American Childhood
Virgil Suárez
[Arte Público]
Memoirs

Issue #8
Fall, 1996

Honey, Mud, Maggots and Other Medical Marvels
Robert and Michele Root-Bernstein
[Houghton Mifflin]
Ancient Medical Cures

Issue #11
Summer, 1997

Suggested Photo Spots
Melinda Stone and Igor Vamos
[Boise State/Hemingway Western Studies]
Terrible Places to Visit

Plain Tales from the Raj
Charles Allen, Editor
[Holt, Rinehart]
The British in India

Issue #12
Fall, 1997

Classics Revisited
Kenneth Rexroth
[New Directions]
Essays on Literature

End of Empire
Brian Lapping
[St. Martins]
Late English Colonialism

The Golden Donors:
A New Anatomy of the Great Foundations
Waldemar Nielsen
[Dutton]
Description of Modern Foundations

A Fine Day for a Middle-Class Marriage
Marlene Joyce Pearson
[Red Hen]
Contemporary Feminist Poetry

Issue #15
Summer, 1998

Growing Up
Russell Baker
[NAL]
Autobiography

The Worst Journey in the World
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
[Penguin]
Travel --- Antarctic

Issue #18
Late Fall, 1998

Honey, Mud, Maggots and Other Medical Marvels
Robert and Michèle Root-Bernstein
[Mariner]
Modern Medicine and Traditional Cures

Westward Ha!
S. J. Perelman
[Burford]
Humor

Issue #19
Early Winter, 1998

The Mormon Murders:
A True Story of Greed, Forgery, Deceit, and Death
Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
[Weidenfeld and Nicholson]
Religion

The lllness Narratives:
Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition
Arthur Kleinman
[Basic]
Disability and Dying

Fetish
John Yau, Editor
[Four Walls Eight Windows]
Essays on Fetishes

Issue #20
Mid-Winter, 1998 - 1998

Four Immigrants Manga:
A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904 - 1924
Henry Kiyama
[Stone Bridge]
Japanese Comic Book

Issue #21
Late Winter, 1998

Presence in the Flesh:
The Body in Medicine
Katharine Young
[Harvard]
Modern Medical Practice

Seeing Like a State:
How Certain Schemes to Improve
The Human Condition Have Failed
James C. Scott
[Yale]
The Failure of City Planning

Issue #23
Mid-Spring, 1998

When I Was a German:
An English Woman
Living in Nazi Germany
Christabel Bielenberg
[Bison --- University of Nebraska]
Foreigners in WWII Germany

In Sam We Trust:
The Untold Story of Sam Walton
And How Wal-Mart is
Devouring America
Bob Ortega
[Times Business]
A Study of Sam Walton and Wal-Mart

Issue #25
Early Summer, 1998

Bound and Gagged:
Pornography and the
Politics of Fantasy
in America
Laura Kipnis
[Duke University Press]
Varieties of Sexual Experience

Mr. Dimock Explores
The Mysteries of the East:
Journeys in India
Edward Cameron Dimock
[Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill]
Travels in Contemporary India

Issue #26
Mid-Summer, 1998

Heart of Spain:
Robert Capa's Photographs
Of the Spanish Civil War
Leslie A. Martin, Editor
[Aperture]
Photographic History

Issue #28
Quite Late Summer, 1998

The Devil's Cup:
Coffee, the Driving Force in History
Stewart Lee Allen
[Soho Press]
A Worldwide Search for the Perfect Cup of Coffee

British Wood-Engraved Book Illustrations
1904 - 1940: A Break with Tradition
Joanna Selborne
[Clarendon Press --- Oxford]
Illustrated History of Wood Engraving

Issue #30
Mid-Fall, 1998

We're All Doing Time
Bo Lozoff
[Human Kindness Foundation]
Surviving in Prison, Meditational Practices

Issue #31
Late Fall, 1998

Tornado Alley:
Monster Storms of the Great Plains
Howard B. Bluestein
[Oxford]
Studies of Tornadoes

Family Kaleidoscope:
Images of Violence and Healing
Salvador Minuchin
[Harvard University Press]
Family Therapy

Issue #32
Early Winter, 1998

All the Time in the World
Hugo Williams
[Akadine --- Common Reader]
50s Travel Book

Issue #33
Mid-Winter, 1999-2000

Learning by Heart:
Contemporary American Poetry about School
Maggie Anderson, David Hassler, Editors
[University of Iowa Press]
200 Poems

Issue #34
Late Winter, 2000

The Cockroach Papers:
A Compendium of History and Lore
Richard Schweid
[Four Walls Eight Windows]
Natural History

Issue #37
Early Spring, 2000

Between Silk and Cyanide:
A Codemaker's War 1941 - 1945
Leo Marks
[Free Press]
History --- WWII

Issue #39
Early Summer, 2000

Boy with Loaded Gun:
A Memoir
Lewis Nordan
[Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill]
Fiction --- Growing Up

Issue #40
Early Summer, 2000

You Can't Win
Jack Black
[AK/Nabat]
Memoirs of 1920s American Thievery

Issue #41
Early Mid-Summer, 2000

'Tis: A Memoir
Frank McCourt
[Scribner]
Bildungsroman, New York City, 1950s

Issue #42
Late Mid-Summer, 2000

Music of Another World
Szymon Laks
[Northwestern University Press]
Music and WWII Concentration Camps

Issue #44
Mid-Late Summer, 2000

A Fly for the Prosecution:
How Insect Evidence Helps Solve Crimes
M. Lee Goff
[Harvard]
Forensic Entomology

Issue #45
Late, Late Summer, 2000

Ham on Rye
Charles Bukowski
[Rebel]
Modern Fiction

Issue #47
Very, Very Early Fall, 2000

The Grand Canyon and the Southwest
Ansel Adams
[Little Brown]
Historic Photographs of the American Southwest

Issue #48
Early Fall, 2000

Sacred Roads:
Adventures from the Pilgrimage Trail
Nicholas Shrady
[Harper/San Francisco]
Travel --- Pilgrimages

Issue #50
Mid-Fall, 2000

Shakespeare's Language
Frank Kermode
[Farrar Straus]
Studies in Shakespeare

In the Heart of the Sea:
The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Nathaniel Philbrick
[Viking]
Whale-Hunting in the 19th Century

Issue #53
Mid-Winter, 2000 - 2001

A Heart So White
Javier Marías
[New Directions]
Contemporary Spanish Fiction

Our Man in Vienna
Richard Timothy Conroy
[St. Martins]
A Witty Take on the Diplomatic Service

Issue #55
Late, Late Winter 2001

War & Politics by Other Means:
A Journalist's Memoir
Shelby Scates
[University of Washington]
War Memoirs

Issue #56
Early Spring 2001

Illness and the Art of Creative Self-Expression:
Stories and Exercises from
The Arts for Those with
Chronic Illness
John Graham-Pole, M. D.
[New Harbinger]
The Patient as Doctor

A History of Celibacy
Elizabeth Abbott
[Scribner]
The History of and
An Experiment in Celibacy

Issue #58
Mid-Spring 2001

Without Vodka:
Adventures in Wartime Russia
Aleksander Topolski
[Steerforth]
Memoirs of a Soldier in Russia, WWII

Issue #59
Late Spring 2001

My Two Wars
Moritz Thomsen
[Steerforth]
WWII Psychology and Madness

Issue #61
Early Summer 2001

Brothel:
Mustang Ranch and Its Women
Alexa Albert, MD
[Random House]
A Sociological Study of Prostitution

The Time Machine
H. G. Wells
[Broadview]
Traditional Science Fiction

Issue #62
Early Mid-Summer 2001

Going on Being:
Buddhism and the Way of Change
Mark Epstein
[Broadway]
Psychology and Buddhism

Issue #65
Late Mid-Summer 2001

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
James Agee, Walker Evans
[Houghton Mifflin/Mariner]
Reality of the Lives of Share-Croppers

Issue #67
Very Early Fall 2001

Rubbish!:
The Archaeology of Garbage
William Rathje, Cullen Murphy
[Arizona]
Garbology --- A Study of What We Throw Away

Under the Skin
Michael Faber
[Harcourt]
Science-Fiction

Issue #68
Early Fall, 2001

The Evening Crowd at Kimser's:
A Gay Life in the 1940s
Ricardo J. Brown
[Minnesota]
Gay Life Pre-Stonewall

The Autobiography of Abbie Hoffman
Abbie Hoffman
[Four Walls Eight Windows]
Autobiography

Issue #70
Late Fall, 2001

Karl Marx
Francis Wheen
[Norton]
Biography

Issue #71
Early Winter, 2001

The Tattered Cloak and Other Stories
Nina Berberova
[New Directions Classic]
Russian Short Stories

Issue #72
Mid-Winter, 2001 - 2002

Dark Back of Time
Javier Marías
[New Directions]
Fiction

All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren, Noel Polk, Editor
[Harcourt]
Revised Version of Penn Warren's Classic

Issue #73
Late Mid-Winter, 2002

Of Two Minds
Tanya Luhrmann
[Vintage]
Study of Psychoanalytic Training

Issue #74
Late Winter, 2002

Summer in Baden-Baden:
A Novel
Leonid Tsypkin
[New Directions]
Literary Fiction and History

The War of the Worlds:
A Critical Text of
The 1898 London First Edition,
With an Introduction, Illustrations,
And Appendices
H. G. Wells --- Leon Stover, Editor
[McFarland]
19th Century Science Fiction

Issue #75
Late Late Winter, 2002

Witnesses of Time:
Photographs of Flor Garduño
Introduction by Carlos Fuentes
[Aperture]
Central and South America Photography

Issue #76
Early Spring, 2002

The Museum of
Unconditional Surrender
Dubravka Ulgresic
[New Directions]
Some Thoughts on Contemporary Slovenia

Issue #78
Late Mid-Spring, 2002

From Here to Tierra del Fuego
Paul Magee
[University of Illinois]
Semiotics and History

Issue #79
Late Late Spring, 2002

Overtime
Joseph Millar
[Eastern Washington University Press]
Contemporary American Poetry

The Inner Art of Meditation
Jack Kornfield
[Sounds True --- Cassettes]
Teachings in Mindfulness Meditation

Issue #81
Early Summer, 2002

The Desert Smells Like Rain:
A Naturalist in O'odham Country
Gary Paul Nabhan
[University of Arizona]
Stories of the Indians of the Sonoran Desert

Issue #83
Late Mid-Summer, 2002

The Death of Sweet Mister
Daniel Woodrell
[Putnam]
Contemporary American Fiction

Novice to Master:
An Ongoing Lesson in
The Extent of
My Own Stupidity
Soke Morinaga Roshi
[Wisdom]
Zen Buddhism --- History of a Master

Issue #84
Late Summer, 2002

A Woman of Rome
Alberto Moravia
[Steerforth Italia]
Post WWII Italian Fiction

Issue #85
Early Fall, 2002

Jacobson's Organ and
The Remarkable Nature of Smell
Lyall Watson
[Norton]
A History of the Nose

Issue #87
Late Fall, 2002

After the Quake
Haruki Murakami
[Knopf]
Contemporary Japanese Short Stories

Issue #88
Late Fall, 2002

Voices in the Dark:
Esoteric, Occult & Secular Voices
In Nazi-Occupied Paris 1940 - 44
William Patrick Patterson
[Arete]
Gurdjieff Classes in Paris during WWII

Issue #92
Late Mid-Winter, 2002 - 2003

Soul of Nowhere:
Traversing Grace in A Rugged Land
Craig Childs]
[Sasquatch
Desert Lore and Travel

History in English Words
Owen Barfield
[Lindisfarne]
Etymology

Issue #93
Late Late Winter, 2002 - 2003

The Purple Land
W. W. Hudson
[Shambala]
A Romantic Novel set in 1850s South America

Sailing Alone Around the World
Joshua Slocum
[Shambhala]
Three Years Before the Mast (Alone)

The Analyst
John Katzenbach
[Ballentine]
Novel about the Stalking of a Psychoanalyst

Issue #94
Very Early Spring, 2003

My 'Dam Life
Sean Condon
[Lonely Planet]
Three Long Years in Amsterdam

Issue #95
Mid-Spring, 2003

Aureole
Carole Maso
[City Lights]
Love Poetry

The Algeria Hotel:
France, Memory, and
The Second World War
Adam Nossiter
[Houghton Mifflin]
Vichy France and WWII

Issue #96
Late Spring, 2003

Small Wonder
Barbara Kingsolver
[HarperCollins]
Personal Essays on
Contemporary American Life

Issue #97
Late Spring, 2003

City Requiem, Calcutta:
Gender and the Politics of Poverty
Ananya Roy
[University of Minnesota Press]
Calcutta, Land Use, and the Very Poor

The Age Of Gold:
The California Gold Rush and
The New American Dream
H. W. Brands
[Doubleday]
History of the California Gold-Rush

Blood of Victory
Alan Furst
[Random House]
Pre-WWII Spy Mystery

Radical Compassion:
Finding Christ in
The Heart of the Poor
Gary Smith, S. J.
[Jesuit Way/Loyola]
Serving the Poor

Serve It Forth
Mary F. K. Fisher
[North Point Press]
Cookbook from 1939

Issue #98
Very Early Summer, 2003

The Fox
D. H. Lawrence
[Hesperus]
Early 20th Century English Fiction

Issue #99
Early Summer, 2003

Long Time Coming:
Photographic Portrait of America ---
1935-1943
Michael Lesy, Editor
[Norton]
Over 400 Photographs from the Farm Security Administration

Memoirs of a Revolutionary
Victor Serge
[Iowa]
Autobiography of a Radical Anarchist

Issue #100
Mid-Summer, 2003

Breath Sweeps Mind
Jakusho Kwong Roshi
[Sounds True Cassettes]
Studies in Classic Zen

Measuring America:
How an Untamed Wilderness
Shaped the United States and
Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy
Andro Linklater
[Walker]
The Coming of Surveying and
Its Effect on Changing Land from
Workspace into a Commodity