Issue #92
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Late Mid-Winter, 2002 - 2003

Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
Boca Rococo:[N] How Addison Mizner Invented Florida's Gold Coast	Caroline Seebohm	Clarkson Potter	American Biography
As I Live And Breathe:[N] Notes of a Patient-Doctor	Jamie Weisman	North Point Press	Autobiography
How the Universe Got Its Spots:[N] Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space	Janna Levin	Princeton University Press	Topology and Love
Soul of Nowhere: Traversing Grace in A Rugged Land*	Craig Childs	Sasquatch	Desert Lore and Travel
American Standard	John Blair	Pittsburgh	Contemporary American Short Stories
Moral Hazard	Kate Jennings	Fourth Estate	Alzheimer's and Banking
Lindbergh: Triumph and Tragedy	Richard Bak	Taylor	Biography
After the Fire:[B] A Writer Finds His Place	Paul Zimmer	Minnesota	Autobiography
The Boy Who Invented Television:[B] A Story of Inspiration, Persistence, and Quiet Passion	Paul Schatzkin	TeamCom	Biography of Philo T. Farnsworth
History in English Words* [B]	Owen Barfield	Lindisfarne Books	Etymology
Medical Paraphernalia	Michael A. Ingall, M. D.	[Article]	Autobiography
Lemuel	L. W. Milam	Reading	Memoirs of a Love
Suicide in The Desert	Craig Childs	[Reading]	Traveling in the Desert
Two Hundred Horse-Power Cheeses	Jerome K. Jerome	[Reading]	Memoirs of Cheeses
I Sing of a Lady	Anon	[Poem]	15th Century English Carol
The Solicitor	Maureen A. Jeffs	[Poem]	Contemporary English Poetry
Poetry Magazine & Their New-Found $100,000,000 & Who Were You Before You Were?	L. Lark/Bob Arnold	[Letters]	Poetry Magazine / Lolita Lark

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

Issue #93
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Late Late Winter, 2002 - 2003

Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
Eternal Treblinka: [N] Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust	Charles Patterson	Lantern Books	Animal Rights and the Holocaust
Remarkable Trees of the World [N]	Thomas Pakenham	W. W. Norton	Strange and Wonderful Trees
Facing Forward [N]: Finding Hope to Begin Again	Wendy Murray Zoba	Tyndale House	Evangelicals and Menopause
The Kindness of Sisters: Annabella Milbanke and the Destruction of the Byrons	David Crane	Knopf	Sisterly Love and Lord Byron
The Road to Malpsychia: Humanistic Psychology and Our Discontents	Joyce Milton	Encounter	The Failings of Humanistic Psychology
The Purple Land*	W. W. Hudson	Shambala	A Romantic Novel of 1850s South America
Sailing Alone Around the World*	Joshua Slocum	Shambhala	Three Years Before the Mast (Alone)
Shooting Under Fire: [B]The World of the War Photographer	Peter Howe	Artisan	Essays and Pictures from the World of War Photography
Meditation, Transformation, and Dream Yoga [B]	Venerable Gyatrul Rinpoche	Snow Lion	Yoga and Sickness and Pain
The Analyst*[B]	John Katzenbach	Ballentine	Novel about the Stalking of a Psychoanalyst
On a Lumbar Roll	Dr. Phage	[Article]	Sciatica and the Third Avenue El
God Vs. Gawd	A. W. Allworthy	[Article]	The Two Divines at Work in the U.S.
The Children of La Ribiera	Carlos Amantea	[Reading]	Travels in Mexico
Women and All-Talk Radio	Carlos Amantea	[Reading]	Travels in Mexico
Harmless Fun	Richard Charles	[Poem]	Poetry on Fondling
"Sorrow" and "The Bride"	D. H. Lawrence	[Poem]	Poetry of Death
"The Lifting"	Sharon Olds	[Poem]	Poetry of Death
"Thoughts on Disability"	Mike Davis, L. W. Milam	[Letters]	How to Deal with Disability
"RALPH Magazine & The Other RALPH Magazine"	Jonathan Brodie, Lolita Lark	[Letter]	Thoughts on the Two RALPH Magazines

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

Issue #94
www.ralphmag.org/BX/indexBX.html
Very Early Spring, 2003

Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
RALPH'S Top Pop Hits	The Editors	[List]	Fifteen of Our Most Viewed Articles, Reviews and Readings
My 'Dam Life*	Sean Condon	Lonely Planet	Three Years in Amsterdam
In Shackleton's Wake	Arved Fuchs	Sheridan House	Antarctic Trek in the Footsteps of Ernest Shackleton
The First World War	Michael Howard	Oxford	Brief History of WWI
Declare	Tim Powers	Morrow	Espionage Novel
Earth and Ashes[B]	Atiq Rahimi	Harcourt	Novel of Survival in Afghanistan
Roofing with Asphalt Shingles[B]	Mike Guerton	Taunton	Noir Fiction about a Man Named Shingles
Salt:[B] A World History	Mark Kurlansky	Walker	A Comprehensive History of Salt
The American Left: An Autopsy	Dr. Phage	[Article]	The Element of Self-Defeat in the Left
"Das Volkswagen" and "Something for Nothing"	Tom Weller	[Readings]	Recently Discovered Works of Shakespeare and Richard Sauerkraut
"Medical Advice," "Dumpsters"	Patti White	[Poem]	Modern American Poetry
Bulemia and Anorexia, Milking Cows, RALPH, and Medycyna Praktyczna	"FRKER," Andrew Breslin, Mike Goodwin, and Katarzyna Jagiela	[Letters]	RALPH's Monthly Correspondence

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

Issue #95
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Mid-Spring, 2003

Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
Aureole*[N]	Carole Maso	City Lights	Love Poetry
Shinto[N]: Origins, Rituals, Festivals Spirits, Sacred Places	C. Scott Littleton	Oxford	History and Practice of Shinto
How to Be Alone[N]	Jonathan Franzen	Farrar, Straus & Giroux	Essays on America
The Good Men: A Novel of Heresy	Charmaine Craig	Riverhead	Novel about the Languedocs of 12th Century France
The "Tamarit" Poems	Federico García Lorca	Dedalus Books	Persian-style Poems of García Lorca
Outlaw: The Lives and Careers of John Rechy	Charles Casillo	Advocate	Biography of the American Noir Writer
The Algeria Hotel: France, Memory, and the Second World War*	Adam Nossiter	Houghton Mifflin	Vichy France and WWII
Children of the Depression[B]	Kathleen Thompson, Hilary MacAustin, Editors	Indiana University Press	Photographs of American Children 1935 - 1942
The Squabble[B]	Nikolai Gogol	Hesperus	Classic 19th Century Russian Short Novel
Pacific High:[B] Adventures in the Coast Ranges from Baja to Alaska	Tim Palmer	Island Press	Expeditions along the 3,600 Mile Range
Our Graduation Speech	Carlos Amantea	Article	Twenty or so Truths About Life (and Eating)
A Sky Filled with Japanese Zebras	Anders Henriksson	[Reading]	College Students' Examination Boners
The Outside Canon	Miles Harvey and the editors of Outside Magazine	[List]	Fifty-three Great Travel Books
An Indian History of Early America	Richard White	[Reading]	American Indians and the Colonial Powers
Song of the Morning Market	Federico García Lorca	[Poem]	Spanish Poetry of the 30s
Casida of the Branches	Federico García Lorca	[Poem]	Spanish Poetry of the 30s
Poetry (In Motion) / Photograph	Bart Edelman	[Poems]	Contemporary American Poetry
Robert Penn Warren, The Fictional L. W. Milam, and The FOLIO	Betty H. Moss, Roy Kiesling, Laura McCarthy, L. Lark	[Letters]	RALPH's Monthly Correspondence

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

Issue #96
www.ralphmag.org/BZ/indexBZ.html
Late Spring, 2003

Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
A Palpable Elysium:[N] Portraits of Genius and Solitude	Jonathan Williams	David R. Godine	Personal Photographs and Memories
Small Wonder*[N]	Barbara Kingsolver	HarperCollins	Personal Essays on Contemporary American Life
The Lake of Dead Languages[N]	Carol Goodman	Ballantine	Contemporary American Novel
The Crazed	Ha Jin	Pantheon	Contemporary Chinese Novel
The Boy and The Dog Are Sleeping*	Nasdijj	Ballantine	Memoirs of a Boy with AIDS
The Blessing	Gregory Orr	Council Oak	Memoirs of a Death in the Family
The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson[G]	Chester G Hearn	McFarland	History of Proceedings against the Twelfth President
Zen Sex:[G] The Way of Making Love	Philip Toshio Sudo	Harper/San Francisco	Techniques of Zen Sexuality
Vogue Women[G]	Georgina Howell	Thunder's Mouth Press	Photographs from the Pages of Vogue
Uniforms:[B] Why We Are What We Wear	Paul Fussell	Houghton Mifflin	Thoughts on the Meaning of Uniforms
The Art of Contemporary American Pottery[B]	Kevin A. Hluch	Krause	Works of More than 150 Contemporary Potters
Samurai William:[B] The Englishman Who Opened Japan	Giles Milton	Farrar Straus Giroux	History of the First Englishman in Japan
Wars & History	J. Gallant, L. Milam	[Article]	History of Wars and the United States
How to Care for A Boy With AIDS	Nasdijj	[Reading]	Description of Life with a Boy with AIDS
Seeing All the Way To China (From the American Southwest)	Nasdijj	[Reading]	Description of Life with a Boy with AIDS
Amblyopia	Reneé Gisell	[Poem]	Living with Blindness
Medicine Woman	Cheryl Savageau	[Poem]	Poem on the Native American Experience
The Earth Is A Satellite of The Moon	Lionel Rugama	[Poem]	Poem on the Native American Experience
Elizabeth Gips, Great Travel Books, U. S. Army Torturing Witches, The Rejection Slip Blues, and Northwest Art	Phil Ehrens, Tortured Witch, Hank Levin, Kurt Lidtke, Gerard Jones	[Letters]	RALPH's Monthly Correspondence

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
[G]To be found under "Great Reviews of the Past"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

Issue #97
www.ralphmag.org/CA/indexCA.html
Very Late Spring, 2003

Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
Metamorphosis[N]	Franz Kafka	Hesperus	Neo-realistic German Fiction
City Requiem, Calcutta:*[N] Gender and the Politics of Poverty	Ananya Roy	University of Minnesota Press	Calcutta, Land Use, and the Very Poor
Waiting for an Angel [N]	Helon Habila	Norton	Contemporary Nigerian Fiction
The Age Of Gold:* The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream	H. W. Brands	Doubleday	History of the California Gold-Rush
Sun at Midnight: A Memoir of the Dark Night	Andrew Harvey	Tarcher/Putnam	The Falling-Out Between Indian Guru and Her Disciple
Blood of Victory*	Alan Furst	Random House	Pre-WWII Spy Mystery
Calamus Lovers:[G] Walt Whitman's Working Class Camerados	Charley Shively, Editor	Gay Sunshine	A Study of Walt Whitman's Lovers
Asia Through the Back Door [G]	Rick Steves and John Gottberg	Muir Publications	Travel in Asia
Nobody Wants a Nuclear War[G]	Judith Vigna	Concept Books	Children's Guide to Nuclear War
My Father, My Son [G]	Elmo Zumwalt Jr., and Elmo Zumwalt III	Macmillan	Father and Son Memories of the Viet-Nam War
How to Beat Burnout:[G] Help for Men and Women	Frank Minirth, et al.	Moody	Christian Psychotherapy
Radical Compassion:[B] Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor	Gary Smith, S. J.	Jesuit Way/Loyola	Serving the Very Poor
Serve It Forth*[B]	Mary F. K. Fisher	North Point Press	Cookbook from 1939
Samadhi:[B] Personal Journeys to Spiritual Truth	Derek Biermann	Shambhala	Interviews with Indian Mystics
Ninety-Year-Old Mother Makes a Killing on Stocks	Carlos Amantea	[Article]	The Stock Market and the Very Old
Husbands Eaten by Ferocious Tigers	Ananya Roy	[Reading]	Interviews with Working Women of Calcutta
Documents on the Oil Fields	Alan Furst	[Reading]	Protecting Rumanian Oil
Thoreau the Buddhist	Rick Fields	[Reading]	The Meditational Practices of Thoreau
"Work Way Up the Ladder," "Montgomery"	Michael Craig	[Poems]	Contemporary American Poetry
Anorexia, Noah Greenberg, The Anatomy of Miracles, and A Possible Legal Fiasco at RALPH	James Gollin, Jessie Walsh, Terry Brown, Dorothy Bowles	[Letters]	Correspondence with RALPH

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
[G]To be found under "Great Reviews of the Past"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

Issue #98
www.ralphmag.org/CB/indexCB.html
Very Early Summer, 2003

Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
Silent Night[B] The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce	Stanley Weintraub	Plume	The Soldier-led truce of 1914
Mygale[B]	Thierry Jonquet	City Lights Noir	Contemporary French Fiction
Choosing the Right College: [B] The Whole Truth about America's Top Schools	Winfield J. C. Myers, Editor	Eerdmans	Exhaustive Comments on America's 109 Top Colleges
The Madness of Art: Interviews with Poets and Writers	Robert Philips	Syracuse University Press	Interviews with Eight Poets and Writers
Memphis Minnie on the Icebox	Langston Hughes	[Reading]	1933 Report on the Famous Blues Singer
Covered Bridges of New York State[N]	Rick L. Berfield	Syracuse University	A Visit to the 24 Covered Bridges of New York State
The Fox*[N]	D. H. Lawrence	Hesperus	Early 20th Century English Fiction
Juke Joint[N]	Birney Imes, Photographer	University Press of Mississippi	Dives in the Mississippi Delta Area
Couples Therapy for the Disabled	Susan Parker	[Reading]	Psychotherapy and Quadriplegia
Ravensbrück Love Poem: January 1945 - January 1985	J. W. Glass	[Poem]	Poetry about the Holocaust
Tracking Down Spammers	J. D. Lansman	[Article]	How to Find Spammers
Tumbling After:* Pedaling Like Crazy after Life Goes Downhill	Susan Parker	Crown	Life After a Paralyzing Accident
World War I, Hydrothermal Vents, Partially Hydrogenated Memory, and the Other RALPH	Lynne-Marie Sanders, Wilfred Owen, Peter Blind and Akira Sato	[Letters to RALPH]	Correspondence with RALPH

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
[G]To be found under "Great Reviews of the Past"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

Issue #99
www.ralphmag.org/CC/indexCC.html
Early Summer, 2003

Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
Long Time Coming*[N] Photographic Portrait of America: 1935-1943	Michael Lesy, Editor	Norton	Over 400 Photographs from the Farm Security Administration
Volcanoes[N]	Mauro Rosi, et al, Editors	Firefly	100 Volcanoes Immortalized
Route 66[N] Images of America's Main Street	William Kaszyniski	McFarland	Nostalgic Story with Pictures of the Old Highway 66
Memoirs of A Revolutionary*	Victor Serge	University of Iowa	Autobiography of a Radical Anarchist
Fragments of the Artwork	Jean Genet	Stanford University	Collected Essays and Interviews of Jean Genet
Bugs, Bites, and Bowels[B]	Jane Wilson-Howarth	Cadigan Guides	Medical Travel Advice
Still Me[B]	Christopher Reeve	Random House	Autobiography of the Actor
God's Mountain[B]	Erri De Luca	Riverhead Books	Contemporary Italian Fiction
Spam & Spammers Jan Reid, Boxing, and Disability, and Children of a Vanished World	Jan Reid, Phil Ehrens, and Carolyn Carlisle	[Letters to RALPH]	Monthly Correspondence
Take Me Out to the Seder	Dr. Phage	[Article]	Some Thoughts on the Modernization of the Seder
Samovars and Bedlam	Michael Ingall	[Article]	Bringing Genteel Living into the Treatment of Mental Patients
Manuel and the Whore-House	Carlos Amantea	[Reading]	Sex and Disability
The Funeral Workers Were Whistling Mozart	Jean Genet	[Reading]	Columbariums and Music
Anseo, March 16 [1996]	David Lehman, Paul Muldoon	[Poems]	Contemporary American Poetry from NPR

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
[G]To be found under "Great Reviews of the Past"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

Issue #100
www.ralphmag.org/CD/indexCD.html
Mid-Summer, 2003

Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
Pox:[B] Genius, Madness, and the Mysteries of Syphilis	Deborah Hayden	Basic	A Historical Look the Disease and at Famous Syphilitics
The Portrait of Mr. W. H.[B]	Oscar Wilde	Hesperus/Trafalgar Square	Wilde's Vision of Shakespeare as a Gay Author
On the Lam: [B] Narratives of Flight in J. Edgar Hoover's America	William Beverly	University of Mississippi	Criminals on the Run in Books and Films (and Reality)
Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy	Andro Linklater	Walker	How Standards of Measurement Created America's Cities and States
Schubert's Winterreise: A Winter Journey in Poetry, Image, and Song	John Harbison Susan Youens	Wisconsin	A Photographic Journey through Schubert's Song Cycle
Breath Sweeps Mind*	Jakusho Kwong Roshi	Sounds True Audio	Twelve Lectures on Zen Practice
21 Very Best Books	The Editors of RALPH	[List]	Editors' Choice of the Best of the Best Books of the Last Ten Years
100 Best Books	The Editors of RALPH	[List]	Editors' Choice of the 100 Best Books of the Last Ten Years
15 Best Articles	The Editors of RALPH	[List]	Editors' Choice of the 15 Best Articles to Appear in RALPH over the Past 10 Years
15 Best Readings	The Editors of RALPH	[List]	Editors' Choice of the 15 Best Readings to Appear in RALPH over the Past 10 Years
21 Best Poems	The Editors of RALPH	[List]	Editors' Choice of the 21 Best Poems to Appear in RALPH over the Past 10 Years
21 Best Letters	The Editors of RALPH	[List]	Editors' Choice of the 21 Best Letters to Appear in RALPH over the Past 10 Years

[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit