| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sixteen Stars From the Pages of RALPH |
The Editors of RALPH | [List] |
16 Books from 2006 That We Feel Are The Very Best |
| Malinche | Laura Esquivel | (Atria) |
A Revised Tale Of the Woman Who Betrayed Mexico in 1519 |
| Tales from
Nowhere* Unexpected Stories from Unexpected Places |
Don George, Editor | (Lonely Planet) |
Thirty or So Stories of Being Stranded in the Middle of Nowhere --- and Surviving |
| New and Selected Poems | Stanley Moss | (Seven Stories Press) |
A Collection of Contemporary Poems On Astonishing Subjects |
| Thriller | James Patterson, Editor | (Mira) | Thirty Short-Stories of Suspense |
| Blood Brothers Among the Soldiers Of Ward 57 |
Michael Weisskopf | (Henry Holt) |
Following the Lives Of Four Amputees from Service in Iraq |
| Presence in
The Flesh[G] The Body in Medicine |
Katharine Young | (Harvard) |
What Happens --- Really --- In the Physician's Examining Room |
| Desert Cities[B] The Environmental History of Phoenix and Tucson |
Michael F. Logan | (University of Pittsburgh Press) | The Ecological and Aquatic History of Two Arizona Cities |
| The Jews in Mussolini's Italy[B] From Equality to Persecution |
Michele Sarfatti | (University of Wisconsin) |
A History of Jewish Families In Facist Italy |
| Michael Ingall
and Sumner Redstone & Viacom |
George Lally Daisy Lee Myers |
[Letters] |
Correspondence with RALPH About Previous Reviews and Articles |
| Louis XVI
& The Sistine Chapel |
William John Meegan Dorothy Wood |
[More Letters] | More Correspondence with RALPH About Previous Reviews and Articles |
| Animal Rights
& Cryptic Letters Of the Month |
bjryder12.aol.com Rodrican26@aol.com |
[Even More Letters] | Even More Correspondence with RALPH About Previous Reviews and Articles |
| Mosquitoes and Tow-Trucks |
C. Amantea | [Article] |
Speed-Traps and Dengue in Mexico |
| Sanlúcar: The Las Vegas Of Spain | Norman Lewis | [Reading] | Southern Spain in the 1950s |
| Another Victory Like This And We Are Doomed |
L. W. Milam Jon Gallant |
[Reading] |
A Reworking of "Wars" From Gringolandia |
| The East-West Border | Jaan Kaplinski | [Poem] | Poetry of Divisions |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Twelve Stinkers | The Editors of RALPH | [List] |
12 Books from 2006 That We Feel Are The Very Worst Possible |
| Mencken: The American Iconoclast |
Marion Elizabeth Rodgers | (Oxford University Press) | The Writings, Social and Political Life and Loves of the Terror from Baltimore |
| Apt. 301 | Will Anderson | (Yewtree Press) |
Photograph Album, with Interviews, of Would-Be Male Models |
|
The Avenger Takes His Place: Andrew Johnson and The Forty-Five Days that Changed the Nation |
Howard Means | (Harcourt) |
A History of the Days Immediately Following the Seventeenth President's Inauguration |
| Tigerland:* And Other Unintended Destinations |
Eric Dinerstein | (Island/Shearwater) |
A Charming Retelling of the Events in the Life of a Bat-Catching Naturalist |
| Brides and Sinners in El Chuco |
Christine Granados | (University of Arizona) | Stories of Hard Lives of the Mexican-Americans of El Paso |
| Untamed Seas:[G] One Woman's True Story of Shipwreck and Survival |
Deborah Scaling Kiley | (Mariner) |
Surviving at Sea (with a Bunch of Crazies) |
| Uncoded Woman[B] | Anne-Marie Oomen | (Milkweed) | Poems of Rough Love (drawn from the U. S. Defense Mapping Agency) |
| Howl on
Trial:[B] The Battle for Free Expression |
Bill Morgan and Nancy J. Peters Editors |
(City Lights) | Howls from the 50s; The Trial of Allen Ginsberg's Barbaric Yawp |
| Jagged with Love | Susanna Childress | (Wisconsin) | Poems on Love and Travel and Birds and Passion and Tears |
| Mme. Spivy Madness at RALPH John D. Rockefeller, Sr. Dancing Under the Red Star RALPH Goes Commercial Wikipedia and Nature Magazine Louis XVI and Peanut Butter Samuel Pepys' Catamaran Charlie Rose Blowing Brass Rock Gardening in the Ukraine |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, Correspondence, and Any of the 3,000 (or More) Pictures, Drawings, and Photographs That Have Appeared Over the Past Thirteen Years |
| The Museum | Dr. Phage | [Article] |
When the Skeletal Remains Come Alive at the Museum of Natural History. |
| How Not to Lie | Philip Roth | [Reading] |
The Speech of a Wife Badly Wronged |
| Going Bats | Eric Dinerstein | [Reading] | How to Love (and Study) Nocturnal Winged Mammals |
| I Inspect My Face | Susanna Childress | [Poem] | A Face After Weeping |
| "The Death of The Ball Turret Gunner" "Hope" |
Randall Jarrell | [Verse] | Two Poems from the Forties |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eyes to See Otherwise[G] Ojos de otro Mirar |
Homero Aridjis | (New Directions) | Contemporary Poetry from Latin America |
| The Sights Along the Harbor[B] New and Collected Poems |
Harvey Shapiro | (Wesleyan) | Poetry from New York City |
| An Alphabetical Life:[B] Living It Up in the World of Books |
Wendy Werris | (Carroll & Graf) | A Publisher's Rep Tells Her Story |
| Many Worlds in One[B] The Search for Other Universes |
Alex Vilenkin | (Hill and Wang) | Obscure Aspects of Physics, Time, and the Universe |
| Flashlights | Ed Rossman | [Article] | The Prep School Culture of the 1950s |
| Facing Down Evil
Life on the Edge as an FBI Hostage Negotiator |
Clint Van Zandt | (Putnam) | Negotiating with Those Who Take Hostages |
| Jorie Graham Aquiles Nazoa Apt. 301 Maori Tattooing Joachim Stempel Barney Rosset Samuel Pepy's Catamaran H. L. Mencken Dr. Paul Nickel |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, Correspondence, and Any of the 3,000 (or More) Pictures, Drawings, and Photographs That Have Appeared Over the Past Thirteen Years |
| I Golfed Across Mongolia How an Improbable Adventure Helped Me Rediscover the Spirit of Golf (And Life) |
André Tolmé | (Thunder's Mouth Press) | Going Across Mongolia with a #3 Iron |
| Telling True Stories A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University |
Mark Kramer Wendy Call Editors |
(Plume) |
Fifty-Two Professionals Reveal The Secret of Nonfiction Writing |
| Oil on the Brain* Adventures from the Pump To the Pipeline |
Lisa Margonelli |
(Nan A. Talese/ Doubleday) |
A Riotous Account of the Dark Energy Going from Well to Gas Tank |
| The Painted Desert Land of Wind and Stone |
Scott Thybony David Edwards, Photographer |
(University of Arizona) |
A Sparing Account of the History and the Present of the Painted Desert |
| From an Autobiography | Harvey Shapiro | [Poem] |
The Wonders of Growing Up In the Grave of Another |
| Arachnophobia | Jenny Diski | [Reading] |
Spider Fear and Fear Of Spider Fear Workshops |
| The Ice Palace That Melted Away[G] How Good Design Enhances Our Lives |
Bill Stumpf | (Minnesota) |
A Futurist Trying To Make Our Lives More Interesting |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guide to
Pruning What, When, Where & How to Prune for a More Beautiful Garden | Cass Turnbull | (Sasquatch) | A Master Gardener Tells Us How Not To Prune Prune Trees< |
| Wanting
Enlightenment Is a Big Mistake Teachings of Zen Master Seung Sahn | Hyon Gak, Editor | (Shambhala) | The Late Korean Buddhist in Fifty Short, Pithy Stories |
| African
Intimacies* Race, Homosexuality, and Globalization | Neville Hoad | (Minnesota) | A Rich Study of Neo-Colonialism in the Guise of Religious Intolerance |
| The Somme* The Coward | A. D. Gristwood | (South Carolina) | Trench-Warfare Through The Eyes of Someone Who Did It (For Two Years) |
| Best American Magazine Writing 2006 |
Graydon Carter, Coordinator | (Columbia University Press) | Sixteen Articles, Reviews and Stories --- Reputed to Be the Best of The Year 2006 |
| Learning
To Fall[G] The Blessings of An Imperfect Life | Philip Simmons | (Bantam) | A Writer with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Ruminates on the Loss of Body (But Not Hope) |
| Suicide [B] Pastoral Responses | Loren L. Townsend | (Abingdon) | Religious Answers for Would-Be (and/or Unsuccessful) Suicides |
| True
Meditation[B] Discover the Freedom Of Pure Awareness | Adyashanti | (Sounds True) | A Young Buddhist on Awareness |
| The Best
Buddhist Writing 2006[B] |
Melvin McLeod Editor | (Shambhala) | Thirty-Five Articles --- Purportedly the Best --- on Buddhism |
| Northwest Art, Charles Krafft, Edward Curtis, Benedicte Wrensted, The Rooster in the Wristwatch |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, Correspondence, and Any of the 3,000 (or More) Pictures, Drawings, and Photographs That Have Appeared Over the Past Thirteen Years |
| Hugh Gregory Gallagher (October 18, 1932 - July 13, 2004) | L. W. Milam | Memorial Article | The Man Who Framed American Disability Rights Remembered |
| His Picture Nowhere | Joshua Clark | [Reading] | A Reporter in Buras, Mississippi, Shortly After Katrina Passed Through |
| What the Cults Believe | Irving Robertson | (The Moody Bible Institute) | Attacks on the Mormons, the Unity Church, and the Rosicrucians by the Moody Bible Institute |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Resolute: The Epic Search for The Northwest Passage and John Franklin, and the Discovery of the Queen's Ghost Ship | Martin W. Sandler | (Sterling) | The search for the Northwest Passage and the Search for the Searchers |
| Fighting for Franco[B] International Volunteers in Nationalist Spain during the Spanish Civil War, 1936 - 39 | Judith Keene | (Hambledon Continuum) | Biographical Notes on the 1300 or so American, Irish, English, Portuguese, and Russians Who Fought the Spanish Republic |
| The Collected Poems of Muriel Rukeyser[B] | Janet E. Kaufman Anne F. Herzog, Editors | (University of Pittsburgh Press) | 600 Poems from the 20th Century American Poet |
| Rogha Dánta Selected Poems | Gabriel Rosenstock | (Cló Iar-Chonnachta) | A Selection of Poems by the Gaelic Beat |
| Locating Medical History[B] The Stories and Their Meanings | Frank Huisman, John Harley Warner, Editors | (The Johns Hopkins University Press) | The History of Medical History |
| Cycles of Time and Meaning in the Mexican Books of Fate | Elizabeth Hill Boone | (University of Texas Press) | A Review of the Nine Existing Codices of Pre-Conquest Mexico |
| Goodnight, Texas* | William J. Cobb | (Unbridled Books) | A Novel about the Blighted Coast of Texas (And Its Blighted Inhabitants) |
| Ho-Chunk Autobiography American Indian Courtship | Crashing Thunder | [Reading] | Wisconsin Indian Courtship Routines |
| The Rooster in the Wristwatch Apt. 301 Unprincipled Attack on Buddhism This Bloody Life Time Leap Relativity and Alzheimer's VacuumKitty The Huns at the Gates RALPH Goes Commercial Dr. Laura and E-Mails |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, Correspondence, and Any of the 3,000 (or More) Pictures, Drawings, and Photographs That Have Appeared Over the Past Thirteen Years |
| On Looking: Essays | Lia Purpura | (Sarabande Books) | Unusual Essays from One Who (Apparently) Looks |
| The Songs of Wild Birds | Lang Elliott | (Houghton Mifflin) | Several Dozen Wild Birds --- and their Calls --- Identified |
| Emanuel Swedenborg's Journal of Dreams | Commentary by Wilson van Dusen | (Swedenborg Foundation) | An Introduction to the Dreams of the Swedish Mystic |
| The Zen Monks and The Governor | Zen Master Seung Sahn | [Reading] | A Tale from the Korean Zen Master |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dada
East The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire | Tom Sandqvist | (MIT) | Seeking Out the Earliest Roots of Dada |
| The Volcano Adventure Guide | Rosaly Lopes | (Cambridge University) | How to Find (and Explore) the 1,500 Volcanoes --- in the World |
| When the
Impossible
Happens Adventures in Non-Ordinary Realities |
Stanislav Grof | (Sounds True) | Journeys in the Mind (Everywhere Your Mother Told You Not to Go) |
| The Edge of Sadness | Edwin O'Connor | (Loyola Classics) | Being a Good Catholic Father: Drinking, Despair, and the General Blues |
| Farewell to the Starlight in Whiskey | Barton Sutter | (BOA Editions) | Poetry from the Upper Middle West Lake Country |
| Serve It Forth[G] | Mary F. K. Fisher | (North Point Press) | Memoirs of One of the First To Lead Us From Marshmallow Salads and Overcooked Roast Beef |
| Dream Whip No. 14[B]* | Bill Brown | (Microcosm Publishing) | A (Modern) Classic American On the Road Trip |
| To Have and Have Not[B] | Ernest Hemingway | (Recorded Books) | Classic Hemingway at His Best (and Worst) |
| Gimpel
the Fool[B] And Other Stories |
Isaac Bashevis Singer | (Audio Partners) | Three Old Singer Tales of European Jewish Life |
| Bad RALPH
RALPH Goes Commercial II "Geek Love" Gray-Haired Pornographia The Lusitania Charles Krafft My War Gone By I Love It So Stephen Hawking Suspected Anarchy at RALPH Gravity-Fed Water Systems |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, Correspondence, and Any of the 3,000 (or More) Pictures, Drawings, and Photographs That Have Appeared Over the Past Thirteen Years |
| Open When Needed | Dianna Robin Dennis | [Article] | Memories of an Eccentric Family in Maine |
| Ángel | Carlos Amantea | [Reading] | A Tale of Death in Santa Clarita |
| From Versailles To Cybernetics | Gregory Bateson | [Reading] | Thoughts on Revenge and World Wars I & II |
| Tradition | Quan Berry | [Poetry] | Female Circumcision |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Past Tents The Way We Camped | Susan Snyder | (Heyday/ Bancroft Library) | Camping in the Mountains A Hundred Years Ago |
| Dancing
With Joy: 99 Poems |
Roger Housden | (Harmony) |
A Selection of Poems To Make Us Happy (If Not Sane) |
| What Do
I Say Talking with Patients About Spirituality |
Elizabeth Johnston Taylor | (Templeton Foundation) |
Advice on Reaching Out To the Sick or Dying |
| American
Windmills An Album of Historic Photographs |
T. Lindsay Baker | (University of Oklahoma) | 200 Photographs from The Heyday of Wind Power |
| The Bloomsday Dead* | Adrian McKinty | (Blackstone Audio) |
Detective Novel about The Irish-American Mafia in Belfast |
| Cold Skin* | Albert Sánchez Piñol | (Canongate) |
Life on a Desert Island With Creatures that Try to Eat You (In the Night) |
| An Old
Wife's Tale[G] My Seven Decades In Love and War |
Midge Decter | (Regan/Harper/Collins) | Memoirs from a Decidedly Snappy Older Conservative |
| Hiroshima[B]* | John Hersey Edward Asner, Reader |
(Audio Partners) | The 1946 Journalistic Masterpiece in Reading |
| Telegraph Days[B] | Larry McMurtry Annie Potts, Reader |
(Recorded Books) | The Old West |
| A Caribbean Mystery[B] | Agatha Christie Rosalind Ayers, Reader |
(Audio Partners) | Murder on a Caribbean Island |
| My French Whore[B] | Gene Wilder Scott Brick, Reader |
(Books on Tape) | WWI in the Eyes of an American Spy |
|
Dada Billy Joel Wild Birds Waking Up in A Just-Buried Coffin The RALPH Folio The West Coast Review of Books Auditory Hallucinations Spatial Location and Persecutory Delusions |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence With the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, Correspondence, and Any of the 3,000 (or More) Pictures, Drawings, and Photographs That Have Appeared Over the Past Thirteen Years |
| Pier-Luigi Zucchini |
L. W. Milam Dr. Phage |
[Article] |
Biography of the Famous 17th Century Composer |
| Dream Whip #14 | Bill Brown | [Reading] |
Travel in New York City, Vienna, Zagreb |
| A Plague Of Locusts | Ellsworth Huntington | [Reading] | Travel in Turkey A Hundred Years Ago |
| The Search
for Unpolluted Drinking Water |
Steven Johnson | [Reading] | A Selection from The Ghost Map |
| Instant Sonnet | Lope Féliz de Vega Carpio | [Poem] |
A Poem about Writing a Poem |
| Cow Worship | Gerald Stern | [Poem] | Cow Kissing |
| Grammar | Tony Hoagland | [Poem] | Conjugating Verbs (And Love) |