| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Skin | Ken Bruen | (Kate's Mystery Books/ Justin, Charles & Co.) |
Yet Another Tale of American Mayhem |
| Tibetan Cooking[B] Recipes for Daily Living, Celebration and Ceremony |
Elizabeth Esther Kelly | (Snow Lion) | Food (and Caring) for Dignitaries and Friends in the Tibetan Style |
| The Power of Flies[B] | Lydie Salvayre | (Dalkey Archive) | Story of a Man Obsessed with Blaise Pascal |
| Hypnotherapy, Schizophrenia and Drinking a Glass of Water |
Jay Haley | [Interview] | Thoughts of One of the Originators of the Concept of Family Therapy (and "The Double Bind") |
| Starting Out in the Evening | Brian Morton | (Harcourt) | A Novel about a Forgotten Novelist |
| The Airmen and the Headhunters A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and theUnlikeliest Rescue of World War II |
Judith M. Heimann | (Harcourt) | Seven Airmen Lost for Six Months in Borneo, 1944 |
| Korean Love Poems[G] | Tom Crawford | [Poetry] | Ginkgo Trees and Love in Kwangju |
| The Seder The New RALPH (Without the Name) Sexy Haiku Robin D. Gill |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| It's "Nudnick," Not "Noodnick" | S. J. Perelman | [Interview] | Back-and-Forth with the Curmudgeon of 20th Century America |
| A Poem of Hope | P. J. Weise | [Poem] | Contemporary American Poetry |
| Contemporary Russian Poetry: An Anthology |
Evgeny Bunimovich J. Kates, Editors |
(Dalkey Archive) | Works of Fourty-Four Poets from the Last Half of the 20th Century |
| Saraminda* | José Sarney | (Aliform Publishing) | A Lusty Novel from the Gold-Fields of South America |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer and The Lower East Side[G] |
Bruce Davidson, Photographer | (Mead Art Museum/ University of Wisconsin) |
One of Singer's Great Stories Accompanied by Fifty Photographs |
| The Woman | Sandzar Yanyshev | [Poem] | Contemporary Russian Poem |
| Woodward and Bernstein Life in the Shadow of Watergate |
Alicia C. Shepard | (Wiley) | Scandal (or Lack of It) In the Lives of the Washington Post Duo |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| The 3rd Ave. El. | Dr. Phage | [Article] | A Visit to the Late Great New York City Transportation System |
| Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth Poems 2004 - 2006 |
Adrienne Rich | (Norton) | Contemporary American Poetry |
| After the Fall* Poems Old and New |
Edward Field | (University of Pittsburgh Press) | Words from an Old East Coast Bohemian |
| Ten Poems to Change Your Life Again & Again[B] |
Roger Housden | (Harmony Books) | Another Series of Poems with Commentary |
| Romance in the Ivory Tower[B] The Rights and Liberty of Conscience |
Paul R. Abramson | (The MIT Press) | Professor-Student Love Seen as a Civil Right |
| Battle Creek[B] | James Sallis | (Walker) | Murder Mystery from Tennessee |
| How Now Shall We Live?[G] | Charles Colson and Nancy Pearcy |
(Tyndale House) | Religions Old and New through the Eyes of the Ex-Nixon Aide |
| Curse of the Cat Woman | Edward Field | [Poem] | Modern American Poetry |
| The Farther Shore* | Matthew Eck | (Milkweed) | Story of an Unknown War in an Unamed Country |
| Sex and Violence and the Federal Communications Commission |
L. W. Milam | [Article] | How to Get Broadcasters to Clean Up The Airwaves without Government Intervention |
| The Jew of Home Depot And Other Stories |
Max Apple | (Johns Hopkins) | Stories of Love and Cultural Wars in Texas |
| Charles Colson and How Now Shall We Live Quantcast and Counting Hits on the Internet Foot Orthotics and RALPH My Bloody Life Clock and Skull |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| A Dynamic God Living an Unconventional Catholic Faith |
Nancy Mairs | (Beacon Press) | Disability and Living One's Own Faith |
| The Great Arc[G] The Dramatic Tale of How India Was Mapped and Everest Was Named |
John Keay | (Harper Collins) | Adventures on Topography (from 150 Years Ago) |
| The Queen Is in the Countinghouse | Leslie L. Seamans | [Poetry] | Contemporary American Poetry |
| Echo Location | John M. Hull | [Reading] | How the Blind "See" Objects by Feel |
| Winged Wonders A Celebration of Birds in Human History |
Peter Watkins & Jonathan Stockland | (BlueBridge) | Sixteen Birds Considered |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fifteen Stars | The Editors of RALPH | [List] | Fifteen Great Books from the Ultimate Months of 2007 |
| The Seventh Well | Fred Wander | (Norton) | Times in Concentration Camps by the Famous East German Writer |
| Real Stinkers | The Editors of RALPH | [List] | Eight Recent Books We Just Couldn't Get Through |
| My Father Says Grace[B] | Donald Platt | (Arkansas) | Lyrics about a Nursing Home for the Very VeryOld |
| The Gateway[B] | T. M. McNally | (SMU) | Seven Short Stories from the Dark Side |
| Sex & Isolation[B] | Bruce Benderson | (University of Wisconsin Press) | Essays on the Loss of the Old Times Square and Hustling on the Internet |
| Churchbells | Guillaume Apollinaire | [Poem | Translation by X. J. Kennedy |
| Crazy for God How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to take All (Or Almost All) Of It Back |
Frank Schaeffer | (Carroll & Graf) | Memoirs of a One-Time Fundamentalist |
| The Exodus | J. M. Coetzee | [Reading] | What Happens When the Soldiers Come to Town |
| The Electrical Century | Iwan Rhys Morus | [Reading] | The Selling of Power |
| Teach the Free Man* Stories |
Peter Nathaniel Malae | (Swallow) | Prison Life from the Inside (and Out) |
| The Crazed[G] | Ha Jin | (Pantheon) | Caring for a Very Crazy Old Man (Chinese Style) |
| Afghanistan by Paul Clammer The 3rd Ave. El. The Purpose of RALPH Subagh Singh |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| The Murder of Mexican Musicians | C. Amantea | [Article] | The Reasons behind Recent Violence to the South |
| Warm, Soft, Chewy, Delicious Flesh Tortillas |
C. A. Amantea | [Article] | The Omnipresent Staple of Mexico |
| The Wisdom of Yoga A Seeker's Guide to Extraordinary Living |
Stephen Cope | (Bantam) | The Yoga-Sutra of Patanjali as Set in Lenox, Mass. |
| In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus* New and Selected Poems, 1955 - 2007 |
X. J. Kennedy | (Johns Hopkins) | A Captivating Collection of Verse by the American poet |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Twenty-Three Hits | The Readers of RALPH | [List] | Twenty-three Reviews, Readings, Articles or Poems Most Often Called-up by Our Readers. |
| Fulgencio Batista From Revolutionary to Strongman |
Frank Argote-Freyre | (Rutgers University Press) | The First Forty Years in the Life of the Cuban Dictator |
| "The Birth of History" "The Prophet of Literature" |
Roberto Bolaño | [Reading] | Two Choice Passages from Amulet |
| The Surgeons[B] Life and Death In a Top Heart Center |
Charles R. Morris | (Norton) | Top Cardiology Practitioners at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, New York |
| Amulet[B]* | Roberto Bolaño | (New Directions) | Street-Life and Lives of the Poets, Mexico City, 1968 |
| Cantos de Adolescencia (1932 - 1937)[B] |
Américo Paredes B. V. Olguín O. V. Barbosa, Editors |
(Arte Público Pess) | Early Poetry of the Cancionero de la Frontera |
| Soup | Enid Dame | [Poetry] | Life in Brooklyn (and the Vilna Ghetto) |
| The World at Night | Matthew Rohrer | [Poetry] | Getting Blind Drunk in Brooklyn |
|
Broken Land* Poems of Brooklyn |
Julia Spicher Kasdorf Michael Tyrell Editors |
(New York University Press) | Anthology of Poetry from the Other Side of the East River |
| City Requiem, Calcutta[G] Gender and the Politics of Poverty |
Ananya Roy | (University of Minnesota Press) | Life of the Urban Poor in India |
| Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog* The Quirky History And Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences |
Kitty Burns Florey | (Harvest) | A Loving Study of the Ancient Art of Parsing Sentences |
| Adverse Outcomes of Cataract Operations Multiple Personality Disorder RALPH and Sunglasses Cryptic Letters of the Month: I Am Pretty Female |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
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|
The First Total War Napoleon's Europe and The Birth of Warfare As We Know It |
David A. Bell | (Houghton Mifflin) | The Birth (and Death) of Massed Armies, 1792 - 1815 |
| The Øresund Fixed Link | Jon Gallant | [Article] | The Connection Between Denmark and Sweden Revealed |
| Couples Therapy For the Disabled |
Susan Parker | [Reading] | A Passage from Parker's Tumbling After |
| Sibelius: The Orchestral Music |
David Hurwitz | (Amadeus Press) | The Seven (or Nine) Symphonies ofthe Finnish Composer |
| Behind Closed Doors* Her Father's House and Other Stories of Sicily |
Maria Messina | (The Feminist Press at CUNY) | Hard Times and the Poor in Turn-of-the-Century Mistretta |
| The Most Paradoxical of Paradoxes |
[List] | The Readers of RALPH | A Collection of the Most Favored "Paradoxes-of-the-Month" |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-Time Hits from the Early Days of RALPH[G] |
The Editors of RALPH | [List] | Twenty-One Reviews, Readings, Articles or Poems from the First Days of the Magazine. |
| The Song of Kahunsha | Anosh Irani | (Milkweed) | A Novel of the Lives of Poor Street-Children in Bombay |
| Billionaire[B] John D. MacArthur Empire Builder, Reluctant Philanthropist, Relentless Adversary |
Nancy Kriplen | (Amacom) | A Quickie on the Insurance Magnate |
| Bill Mauldin[B] A Life Up Front |
Todd DePastino | (Norton) | The Life of the WWII Cartoonist |
| A View of The Ocean*[B] |
Jon de Hartog | (Pantheon) | The Last Days of the Mother of the Author |
| Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription Notes & Asides from National Review |
William Buckley | (Basic Books) | The Late Editor's Writings on Everything Under the Sun |
| The Death of a Moth | Milorad Pavic | [Reading] | Why There Is Death in the World |
| Gertrude Stein and Grammar | Kitty Burns Florey | [Reading] | Diagramming, Grammar, and the American Poet |
| IN MEMORY OF THE HORSE DAVID, WHO ATE ONE OF MY POEMS |
James Wright | [Poem] | Obscurantist Poem on Literary Eating Habits of Horses |
| Journey to the East | Le Corbusier | (MIT) | The Young Le Corbu in the Middle East, 1911 |
| The Ethics of News Photographers "The Weeping Frenchman" Pekin Ducks Poems of Brooklyn Ezra Pound The Barnes Foundation Impressionism World War One and Gas Onanism and the Importance of Time |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| James Joyce and The Glory of the Outhouse |
Carlos Amantea | [Article] | Ulysses and the Construction of "El Baño Seco" |
| Life Class | Pat Barker | (Doubleday) | Novel of English Painters and World War I |
| Foreskin's Lament:* A Memoir |
Shalom Auslander | (Riverhead Books) | A Cockamanie Story of Growing Up in the Contemporary Orthodox Jewish Middle Class |
| Song of Welcome | Joseph Brodsky | [Poem] | Growing Up, Growing Old, Dying |
| When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It* The Parts of Speech For Better and/or Worse |
Ben Yagoda | (Broadway) | A Merry Chase through the Parts of Speech in English |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Twenty Great Poems | The Editors of RALPH | [List] | Twenty Poems from the First Days of the Magazine |
| America's Child A Woman's Journey Through the Radical Sixties |
Susan Sherman | (Curbstone) | Autobiography of a Feminist Radical |
| The Big Switch Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google |
Nicholas Carr | (Norton) | The Goods and Bads of the Computer Age and the Internet |
| The Computer and Centralized Power |
Nicholas Carr | [Reading] | The Computer as Reporter on Your Life |
| World over Water[B] | Robert Gibb | (Arkansas) | Poetry on American Radicals In the Steel Mills |
| A Force of Nature[B] The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford |
Richard Reeves | (Atlas Books) | Life Story of the Scientist who Split the First Atom |
| In Search Of the Blues[B] |
Marybeth Hamilton | (Basic) | The Myth of the Delta Blues Revealed |
| Sometimes I Feel Like Stephen Hawking Must Feel After A Bad Night |
L. W. Milam | [Article] | The Real World of Disability |
| A Curious Earth | Gerard Woodward | (Norton) | Story of an Old but Respectable Drunk in Modern-Day London |
| Neither - Nor Reginal A. Fessenden & the Caspian Sea Synanon Andrew Harvey Azerbijan & Pakistan H. L. Mencken The Aedii Eechii |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
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| The Making of a Tropical Disease A Short History of Malaria |
Randall M. Packard | (Johns Hopkins) | The Facts about the World's Most Debilitating Disease |
| Midlife | Joseph Millar | [Poem] | The Midlife Crises |
| Radical Compassion[G] Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor |
Gary Smith, S. J. | (Jesuit Way/Loyola) | Working with the Poor |
| Whatever You Do, Don't Run:* True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide |
Peter Allison | (The Lyons Press) | What Not to Do When Faced With a Pride of Lions |
| The Slave Ship: A Human History |
Marcus Rediker | (Viking) | The Economic Facts of the Slave Trade |
| Tapping In: A Step-By-Step Guide to Activating Your Healing Resources Through Bilateral Stimulation |
Laurel Parnell | (Sounds True Books) | Physical Resources for Relieving Psychic Symptoms |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Immortal | Traci L. Slatton | (Delta) | The Horrors of 14th Century Italian Street Life |
| Taxi | Khaled Al Khamissi | (Aflame Books) | 80,000 Reasons Not to Visit Cairo |
| The World on Fire 1919 and the Battle with Bolshevism |
Anthony Read | (Norton) |
Several Characters in Search of a Political Religion (Including Lenin, Mother Jones, Tolstoi, and Churchill) |
| My Mother Wears Combat Boots A Parenting Guide for the Rest of Us |
Jessica Mills | (AK) |
Having and Caring for Babies (While Being in Love with the "Subhumans") |
| When Huai Flowers Bloom Stories of the Cultural Revolution |
Shu Jiang Lu | (SUNY Press) | Surviving the Cultural Revolution |
| The Associates Four Capitalists Who Created California |
Richard Rayner | (Atlas & Co.) | Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker. |
| The Accidental Explorer Wayfinding in Alaska |
Sherry Simpson | (Sasquatch) | How to Be Terrified on Foot in the Snows of Alaska (With Your Friendly Dog) |
| The World's Most Dangerous Places[G] | Robert Young Pelton | (Fielding) | how to Be Terrified while on Vacation |
| Dragon Thunder[B] My Life with Chögyam Trungpa |
Diana J. Mukpo | (Shambhala) | Strange Times (and Stranger Parties) with the Tibetan Buddhist Master |
| Natural Shocks[G]* | Richard Stern | (TriQuaterly/ Northwestern University) |
Negative Capability and Goethe, Tolstoy, Dr. Johnson, Sandy Koufax and the Sage of Vienna |
| Red Parrot Wooden Leg [B] | Gregorio Kohon | (Karnac) |
Two Young Stoned Poets Afloat in Rio de Janeiro |
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Flags in the Dust Dugustus Goop X. J. Kennedy Bush Hog Cryptic Letters of the Month Think You Czechoslovakian Recipes Love Letters Abortions |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
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| Lifestyles of the Blind and
Paralyzed:
Mark O'Brien |
L. W. Milam | [Article] | A Short Obituary on the Foremost Disabled Poet |
| Leadbelly and
John Lomax [1934 - 1935] |
Marybeth Hamilton | [Reading] | The Folk Collector and the Black Singer On the Road Together |
| The Funeral of Nikolai Vorontsov | Loren Graham | [Reading] | Death in the Last Days of the USSR |
| Brooklyn College Brain | Allen Ginsberg | [Poem] | The New Teacher in New York City |
| Riding the D-Train | Enid Dame | [Poetry] | Poetry in the New York Subway |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Twelve Famous Readings | The Editors of RALPH | [Readings] | A Selection of Readings from the Early Days of the Magazine |
| Twentieth Century United States Photographers: A Student's Guide |
Kristin G. Congdon Karas Kelley Hallmark |
(Greenwood Press) | A Textbook on Seventy-Five Important American Photographers |
| Testy Mail | The Editors of RALPH | [Letters] | A Collection of Pained Communications Addressed to the Magazine |
| Ants at Work[G]: How an Insect Society Is Organized |
Deborah Gordon | (The Free Press) | A Survey of Survival Habits of Ants in the Desert |
| Pioneers of Balinese Painting:* The Rudolf Bonnet Collection |
Helena Spanjaard | (KIT Publishers) | Important Artists from mid- Twentieth Century Java |
| Impressions of The East[B]: Treasures from the C. V. Starr East Asian Library |
Deborah Rudolph | (Heyday Books) | Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Art and Books in the Famous California Collection |
| Ten Books that Screwed Up the World[B]: And Five that Didn't Help |
Benjamin Wiker | (Regnery) | Darwin, Freud, Kinsey, and Hobbes Are Among the Villains Here |
| It Was Never about A Hot Dog and a Coke![B]: A Personal Account of the 1960 Sit-in Demonstrations in Jacksonville, Florida and Ax Handle Saturday |
Rodney L. hurst, Sr. | (WingSpan Press) | Memories of Early Civil-Rights Demonstrations In North Florida |
| Living Abroad in China | Stuart and Barbara Strother | (Moon) | How to Get a Job And Be Happy in Communist China |
| Help Your Dog Fight Cancer: What Every Caretaker Should Know about Canine Cancer |
Laurie Kaplan | (Kaplan) | Advice for Dog-Owners on Canine Cancer |
| On Empire:* America, War, and Global Supremacy |
Eric Hobsbawm | (Pantheon) | The Famed Marxist Historian On America's Latest Venture in The Middle East |
|
Maxine Kumin A Latin King Dugustus Goop X. J. Kennedy Ordering Water Closets | The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
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| Night Haunts:* A Journey through the London Night |
Sukhdev Sandhu | (Artangel/Verso) | Reports on What Keeps London Alive and Well During the Night |
| Pulling at Broken Strings | Laurie Lee | [Reading] | Mothers and Madness in Edwardian England |
| Wild Edges: Photographic Ink Prints |
Gregory Conniff | (University of Wisconsin) | Black-and-White Images of Nature |
| The Case of The Disappearing Video |
Dr. Phage | [Article] | How to Lose Orson Welles In Your Home Video |