[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit
Issue #64
www.ralphmag.org/AT/indexAT.html
Late Mid-Summer 2001
| Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
| Chump Change[B] |
Dan Fante |
Sun Dog |
Modern American Fiction |
|---|
| My Lucky Star[B] |
Zdenka Fantolvá |
Herodias |
Growing up in Czechoslovakia |
|---|
| Anarchy!:[B] An Anthology of Emma Goldman's Mother Earth |
Peter Glassgold, Editor |
Counterpoint |
Anthology of Anarchism |
|---|
| Climate: The Key to Understanding Business Cycles |
Michael Zahorchak |
Tide Press |
Climate and the market |
|---|
| Testament of Revolution |
Béla Lipták |
Texas A & M Press |
The Hungarian Revolution |
|---|
| Keep Singing: Two Mothers, Two Sons, and their Fight Against Jesse Helms |
Patsy Clarke and Eloise Vaughn |
Alyson |
Gay Rights |
|---|
| Rape on the Desert |
Andrei Makine |
[Reading] |
Modern Russian Life |
|---|
| Second Hand[N] |
Michael Zadoorian |
Norton |
Fiction |
|---|
| The Triumph of the Moon:[N] A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft |
Ronald Hutton |
Oxford |
Witchcraft |
|---|
| Farm Motors:[N] Practical Hints for Handy-men |
J. Brownlee Davisson and Leon Wilson Chase |
Lyons |
Antique Engines |
|---|
| National Private Radio |
L. W. Milam |
[Article] |
Commentary on NPR |
|---|
| To a Child Four Years Old |
Lola Ridge |
[Poem] |
Traditional American Poetry |
|---|
| Spring Pastoral |
Elinor Wylie |
[Poem] |
Traditional American Poetry |
|---|
| Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill at Yalta |
Brock Clarke |
[Reading] |
Contemporary Fiction |
|---|
| The Ordinary White Boy |
Brock Clarke |
Harcourt |
Contemporary Fiction |
[N]To be found under "New Listings" --- also called "Recent Books"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit
Issue #65
www.ralphmag.org/AU/indexAU.html
Late Mid-Summer 2001
| Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
| Being Dead |
Jim Crace |
Picador USA |
Contemporary English Fiction |
|---|
| Sizzling Chops & Devilish Spins:[B] Ping-Pong and the Art of Staying Alive |
Jerome Charyn |
Four Walls/Eight Windows |
History of Ping-Pong |
|---|
| The Biology of Science Fiction Cinema[B] |
Mark C. Glassy |
McFarland |
Science Fiction Films and Real Life |
|---|
| My Little Blue Dress[B] |
Bruno Maddox |
Viking |
Fiction |
|---|
| Let Us Now Praise Famous Men* |
James Agee, Walker Evans |
Houghton Mifflin/Mariner |
Reality of the Lives of Share-Croppers |
|---|
| Memory of France |
Paul Celan |
[Poem] |
Contemporary German Poetry |
|---|
| FDR and his Enemies[N] |
Albert Fried |
Palgrave/St. Martins |
FDR's Five Greatest Enemies |
|---|
| The Music Room[N] |
Dennis McFarland |
Picador USA |
Fiction |
|---|
| Frank Lloyd Wright Glass[N] |
Doreen Ehrlich |
Courage Books |
Decorative Arts in the Houses of Wright |
|---|
| The Alphabet Begins with "S" |
Ryszard Kapuscinski |
[Reading] |
Growing up in the Soviet Union |
|---|
| What I Did Not Tell Anyone |
Kate Gale |
[Poem] |
Contemporary Women's Poetry |
|---|
| She Was Only an Optician's Daughter |
L. W. Milam |
[Article] |
American Radio --- Mid-Century |
|---|
| A Passion to Win |
Sumner Redstone and Peter Knobler |
Simon & Schuster |
Biography, Business |
|---|
| San Diego: A Pictorial History |
Raymond G. Starr |
Donning |
History of San Diego in Photographs |
|---|
| Ask No Questions |
Ryszard Kapuscinski |
[Reading] |
Life in Soviet Russia |
|---|
| The Top Pop Hits |
RALPH Editors |
[List] |
Twelve of the Most Popular Book Reviews |
[N]To be found under "New Listings" --- also called "Recent Books"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit
Issue #66
www.ralphmag.org/AV/indexAV.html
Very Late Summer 2001
| Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
| Body of Knowledge:[B] One Semester of Gross Anatomy, the Gateway to Becoming a Doctor |
Steve Giegerich |
Scribner |
Cadavers and Medical School |
|---|
| African Journey[B] |
Pete Turner |
Graphis Press |
Contemporary Africa in Photographs |
|---|
| Untamed Seas:[B] One Woman's True Story of Shipwreck and Survival |
Deborah Scaling Kiley, Meg Noonan |
Mariner |
Sailing Adventures |
|---|
| Dreams of Tanks |
Andrei Makine |
[Reading] |
Memoirs of Soviet Russia |
|---|
| The Men on Wheels |
Andrei Makine |
[Reading] |
Memoirs of Soviet Russia |
|---|
| Poetry In Motion |
Bart Edelman |
[Poem] |
Contemporary Poetry |
|---|
| Hunting for Father |
Ignacio Schwartz |
[Article] |
Memories of Growing up in Florida |
|---|
| The Hurricane |
Ignacio Schwartz |
[Article] |
Memoirs of Growing up in Florida |
|---|
| Star in the East: Krishnamurti: the Invention of a Messiah |
Roland Vernon |
Palgrave/St. Martins |
Biography |
|---|
| My Faraway Home[N] |
Mary McKay Maynard |
Lyons |
The Japanese, the Philippines, and WWII |
|---|
| The Dying Animal[N] |
Philip Roth |
Houghton Mifflin |
Contemporary Fiction |
|---|
| The Reader's Companion to Military History |
Robert Cowley, Geoffrey Parker, Editors |
Houghton Mifflin |
Essays on Warfare |
|---|
| The Burden of Time: Photographs from the Highlands of Chiapas |
Marcey Jacobson |
Stanford University |
Photographs of Mexico |
|---|
| Tariki: Embracing Despair, Discovering Peace |
Hirouki Itsuki |
Kodansha |
Pure Land Buddhism |
|---|
[N]To be found under "New Listings" --- also called "Recent Books"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit
Issue #67
www.ralphmag.org/AW/indexAW.html
Very Early Fall 2001
| Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
| Highwire Moon[B] |
Susan Straight |
Houghton Mifflin |
Latina Fiction |
|---|
| Sex Tips:[B] From Men Who Ride the Sexual Frontier |
Jo-Anne Baker, Editor |
Fusion |
Sexual Advice |
|---|
| Rubbish!:[B] The Archaeology of Garbage* |
William Rathje, Cullen Murphy |
Arizona |
Garbology |
|---|
| Rebuilding the Church of the Novgorod Kremlin |
Ryszard Kapuscinski |
[Reading] |
Stalin's Russia |
|---|
On Being Fired Again |
Erin Belieu |
[Poem] |
Contemporary Poetry |
|---|
| The Philosopher |
Rebecca Wee |
[Poem] |
Contemporary Poetry |
|---|
| Intervention in the Caribbean: The Dominican Crisis of 1965 |
Gen. Bruce Palmer, Jr. |
University of Kentucky |
American Foreign Policy |
|---|
| Animal Quackers |
L. W. Milam |
[Article] |
Ducks |
|---|
| A Visit to the GULAG Magadan |
Ryszard Kapuscinski |
[Reading] |
Post-Stalinist Russia |
|---|
| Juancito's Wake: Lost Grove Squatters' Camp, Lima, 1985 |
Orlando Ricardo Menes |
[Poem] |
Contemporary Latino Poetry |
|---|
| Migraine: The Breakthrough Study that Explains What Causes It and How It Can Be Completely Prevented through Diet |
Rodolfo Low |
Holt |
Migraines and Diet |
|---|
| The Dog Department[N] |
James Thurber |
Harper/Collins |
Thurber's Dogs |
|---|
| Wildfire: A Reader[N] |
Alianor True, Editor |
Island Press |
Smokejumpers |
|---|
| What I Think I Did:[N] A Season of Survival in Two Acts |
Larry Woiwode |
Basic Books |
Memoirs |
|---|
| An Old Wife's Tale: My Seven Decades in Love and War |
Midge Decter |
Regan/Harper/Collins |
Memoirs |
|---|
| Memoirs of the Eenie-Weenies |
Dr. Phage |
[Article] |
Memoirs of the 60s |
|---|
| Masquerade* |
Tivadar Soros |
Arcade Publishing |
Budapest 1944 - 1945 |
|---|
| Under the Skin* |
Michael Faber |
Harcourt |
Science-Fiction |
[N]To be found under "New Listings" --- also called "Recent Books"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit
Issue #68
www.ralphmag.org/AX/indexAX.html
Early Fall, 2001
| Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
| The Evening Crowd at Kimser's:[B] A Gay Life in the 1940s* |
Ricardo J. Brown |
Minnesota |
Gay Life Pre-Stonewall |
|---|
| Neville Chamberlain and Appeasement[B] |
Robert J. Caputi |
Susquehanna |
Biography |
|---|
| The Autobiography of Abbie Hoffman[B]* |
Abbie Hoffman |
Four Walls/Eight Windows |
Autobiography |
|---|
| California Crazy: Roadside Vernacular Architecture |
J. Heimann |
Chronicle |
Unusual Architecture |
|---|
| My Friend, You Are Legally Blind: A Writer's Struggle with Macular Degeneration |
Charles Champlin |
John Daniel & Co. |
Going Blind |
|---|
| I Finally Figured Out About Dying --- (And I Wanted To Tell You Before It Was Too Late) |
Robert J. Fretwell |
[Poem] |
Contemporary Poetry |
|---|
| Of Beetles and Angels: A True Story of the American Dream |
Mawi Asgedon |
Megadee |
Assimilation in America |
|---|
| On Being Psychoanalyzed (At the Hyatt Regency Bar) |
Carlos Amantea |
[Reading] |
Contemporary Psychotherapy |
|---|
| Florida Beaches:[N] The Only Guide to the Best Places to Eat, Stay, and Play on Every Beach in the Sunshine State |
Parke Puterbaugh and Alan Bisbort |
Foghorn Press |
Travel |
|---|
| Worshiping the Ancestors:[N] Chinese Commemorative Portraits |
Jan Stewart, Evelyn S. Rawski, Editors |
Smithsonian/Stanford University Press |
Chinese Scroll Painting |
|---|
| America's Children[N] |
James Thackara |
The Overlook Press
|
The Manhattan Project |
|---|
| A Gaudy Spree: Literary Hollywood When the West Was Fun |
Samuel Marx |
Franklin Watts |
Hollywood History |
|---|
| There Wasn't Any Tooth Fairy in Havana |
Virgil Suárez |
[Reading] |
Dentistry and Growing up |
|---|
[N]To be found under "New Listings" --- also called "Recent Books"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit
Issue #69
www.ralphmag.org/AY/indexAY.html
Mid-Fall, 2001
| Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
| Nineteen Wilful Men |
Carlos Amantea |
[Article] |
11 September 2001 |
|---|
| The Practical Guide to Aging: What Everyone Needs to Know |
Christine K. Cassel, Editor |
New York University |
Aging Guide |
|---|
| The Same Sea* |
Amos Oz |
Harcourt |
Israeli Fiction |
|---|
| Eruptions |
Henry J. Morro |
[Poem] |
Contemporary Poetry |
|---|
| The Exact Location of the Soul:[B] New and Selected Essays |
Richard Selzer |
Picador USA |
Medical Essays |
|---|
| The Buddha Book[B] |
Abraham Rodriguez |
Picador USA |
Contemporary Ghetto Fiction |
|---|
| The Cabin:[B] Inspiration for the Classic American Getaway |
Dale Mulfinger and Susan E. Davis |
Taunton |
How-to-do-it |
|---|
| 2.4 Man-Meals a Day |
William Rathje and Cullen Murphy |
[Reading] |
Garbology |
|---|
| Shlugen Kapores |
Michael A. Ingall |
[Article] |
Jewish Tradition |
|---|
| Marilyn Monroe Is Dead |
Henry J. Morro |
[Poem] |
Contemporary Poetry |
|---|
| Quitting the Nairobi Trio:[N] A Memoir |
Jim Knipfel |
Berkley Books |
Mental Health |
|---|
| Gates to Buddhist Practice:[N] Essential Teachings of a Tibetan Master |
Chagdud Tulku |
Padma |
Buddhism |
|---|
| Mountain City[N] |
Gregory Martin |
North Point Press |
Small Town American Life |
|---|
| Menstrual Modesty |
Katha Pollitt |
[Reading] |
The Menstrual Crisis |
|---|
| Truer Than True Romance: Classic Love Comics Retold |
Jeanne Martinet |
Watson-Guptill |
Romance Comics Reworked |
|---|
| The First World War* |
Gerard J. De Groot |
Palgrave |
History of WWI |
|---|
[N]To be found under "New Listings" --- also called "Recent Books"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit
Issue #70
www.ralphmag.org/AZ/indexAZ.html
Late Fall, 2001
| Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
| Banning Bin Laden: A Proposal |
Carlos Amantea |
[Article] |
Censorship |
|---|
| Nomads of the Desert City:[B] Personal Stories from Citizens of the Streets |
Barbara Seyda |
Arizona |
Interviews with Street People |
|---|
| Silent Extras[B] |
Arnon Grunberg |
St. Martin's |
Fiction |
|---|
| The Places That Scare You:[B] A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times |
Pema Chödrön |
Shambhala |
Buddhistic Exhortations |
|---|
| The Editors' Picks |
RALPH Editors |
[List] |
20 Recent Books of Merit |
|---|
| Gangrene and Glory: Medical Care During the American Civil War |
Frank R. Freemon | Illinois |
Medical Care and the Civil War |
| Chacun a Son gout |
Jon Gallant |
[Article] |
Gout |
|---|
| Karl Marx[N]* |
Francis Wheen |
Norton |
Biography |
|---|
| Notes on Extinction |
Janice Deaner |
Dutton |
Fiction |
|---|
| Dubi Dombrov Tries to Express |
Amos Oz |
[Reading] |
Character Sketch |
|---|
| Spring |
Danyèl Simido |
[Poem |
Haitian Creole Poetry |
|
|---|
| The Essence of Tibetan Buddhism[N] |
Lama Thubten Yeshe |
Lywa |
Buddhism |
|---|
| The Algeria Hotel: France, Memory, and the Second World War |
Adam Nossiter |
Houghton Mifflin |
Memories of Vichy France |
|---|
| If You Want |
Nousnous Lenous Surprice |
[Poem] |
Haitian Creole Poetry |
|---|
[N]To be found under "New Listings" --- also called "Recent Books"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit
Issue #71
www.ralphmag.org/BA/indexBAhtml
Early Winter, 2001
| Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
| Michael Bader |
L. W. Milam |
[Article] |
Memorial |
|---|
| The Tattered Cloak and Other Stories* |
Nina Berberova |
New Directions Classic |
Russian Short Stories |
|---|
| Six Wars at a Time |
Howard and Audrey Shaff |
The Center for Western Studies |
Biography of Gutzon Borglum |
|---|
| The Essential Galbraith[B] |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
Mariner |
Essays |
|---|
| Maverick in Madagascar[B] |
Mark Eveleigh |
Lonely Planet |
Travel |
|---|
| The Big Lie:[B] Hale Boggs, Lucille May Grace, and Leander Perez in 1951 |
Garry Boulard |
Pelican |
Political Biography |
|---|
| The Cave Club |
Geoffrey Brock |
[Poem] |
Contemporary Poetry |
|---|
In Search of Deep Throat: The Greatest Political Mystery of Our Time |
Leonard Garment |
Basic |
Memoirs of the Nixon Years |
|---|
| Groupuscules, or the New Old Left |
Dr. Phage |
[Article] |
Political Schisms |
|---|
| God and the Evolving Universe:[N] The Next Step in Personal Evolution |
James Redfield, Michael Murphy, Sylvia Timbers |
Tarcher/Putnam |
New Age |
|---|
| Book Business:[N] Publishing Past, Present and Future |
Jason Epstein |
Norton |
Memoirs |
|---|
| Selected Poems of Robert Penn Warren |
John Burt, Editor |
Louisiana State University Press |
Anthology |
|---|
| The Tattered Cloak |
Nina Berberova |
[Reading] |
Russian Emigre Fiction |
|---|
| Three from the Teachers & Writers Collaborative |
Christopher Edgar, Gary Lenhart, Editors |
[Poetry] |
Contemporary Poetry |
|---|
[N]To be found under "New Listings" --- also called "Recent Books"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit