| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Varieties of Liberalism in Central America Nation-States as Works in Progress |
Forrest D. Colburn Arturo Cruz S. |
(University of Texas) | Economics and Politics in Five Central American Countries |
| Away* | Amy Bloom | (HighBridge Audio) | The On-the-Road Adventures of Lillian Leyb Refugee from 1920's Turov |
| 500 Butterflies[B] From Around the World |
Ken Preston-Mafham | (Firefly) | 512 Butterflies Explained and Pictured |
| Gulf Music[B] Poems |
Robert Pinsky | (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) | Poetry from the Contemporary American Worry-Wart |
| The Nuremberg Legacy[B] How the Nazi War Crimes Trials Changed the Course of History |
Norbert Ehrenfreund | (Palgrave) | A Participant in the 1946 Trials Views the Implications |
| Comfort A Journey Through Grief |
Ann Hood | (Norton) | On the Death of the Five-Year-Old Grace Hood |
| Illness and Devotion | Manoel de Barros | [Poetry] | New Poems from Brazil |
| The Last Barrier[G] A Journey into the Essence of Sufi Teaching |
Reshad Feild | (Lindisfarne Books) | The Tortured Path of Suffering for the Sufi Divine |
| Living Everyday Zen* | Charlotte Joko Beck | (Sounds True Disks) | Thoughts from the San Diego Zen Master |
| Bonfire of the Vanities Slaves Finding Work in China Distance, Age and Color |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| Choosing to Love the World | Thomas Merton | (Sounds True) | 150 Thoughts on Holiness and Surviving (And Surviving Holiness) |
| The Death of Thomas Merton | John Howard Griffin | [Reading] | A Report on the Tragedy from a Close Friend |
| More Harm Than Good What Your Doctor May Not Tell You about Common Treatments and Procedures |
Alan Zelicoff, M.D. Michael Bellomo |
(Amacom) | Various Medical Procedures One Can and Should Avoid |
| What I Was | Meg Rosoff | (Viking) | Adventures of the Rich and Poor at an English Public School |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject | Penguins of the World | Wayne Lynch | (Firefly) | Penguins and the South Pole and Apsley Cherry-Garrard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Art from Fort Marion The Silberman Collection |
Joyce M. Szabo | (University of Oklahoma) | American Indian Art (1874 - 1876) from a Florida Prison |
| Birds* The Art of Ornithology |
Jonathan Elphick | (Rizzoli International) | More than 200 Representations of Birds from 1492 to the Present |
| Buildings for
Tomorrow Architecture that Changed Our World |
Paul Cattermole | (Overlook) | 200 Examples of Modern Architecture |
| Landscapes of Slavery The Plantation in American Art |
Angela D. Mack Stephen G. Hoffius, Editors |
(University of South Carolina | Seven Essays and a Hundred Drawings and Illustrations of Plantation Life |
| E. O. Hoppé's
Amerika* Modernist Photographs From the 1920's |
Phillip Prodger, Editor | (Norton) | Pictures from America from Eighty Years Ago |
| A Texas Journey The Centennial Photographs of Polly Smith |
Evelyn Barker, Editor |
(Dallas Historical Society) | Happy Photographs from 1930s Depression Texas |
| Monstrosities[G] Bodies and British Romanticism |
Paul Youngquist | (Minnesota) | The "Proper Body" vs. the "Monsters" |
| Baghdad Mon Amour[B] Selected Writings |
Salah al Hamdani Sonia Alland, Translator |
(Curbstone) | Poems and Essays from the Front |
| Tree Barking[B] A Memoir |
Nesta Rovina | (Baytree) | Thirty Essays on Being a "Helper" |
| Indignation[B] | Philip Roth | (Houghton Mifflin) | A Chronicle of Newark (and Ohio) |
| Cataract Operations That Go Bad Ta Moko Prince von Metternich Subagh Singh Khalsa Paid Reviews Lucien Hervéé |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| The Gravesend Trust | Dr. Phage | [Article] | Investing in Grave Sites for Fun and Profit |
| Ten of Our Most Popular Readings | The Editors of RALPH | [Readings] | A Selection of Belles Letres from the Last 14 Years |
| Feldwebel Zorn's Motorcycle | Senaden Musabegovic | [Poem] | Modern Poetry from Bosnia |
| Secret Agent | Tonnus Oosterhof | [Poem] | Modern Poetry from Holland |
| Should You Wish to Stay | Sharif S. Elmusa | [Poem] | Modern Poetry from the Middle East |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject | The Model T A Centennial History |
Robert Casey | (Johns Hopkins) | The Origins of the "Flivver" |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese Women
Poets: An Anthology |
Hiroaki Sato | (M. E. Sharpe) | 100 Poets from Ancient and Modern Japan |
| American Creation* Triumphs and Tragedies at The Founding of the Republic |
Joseph J. Ellis | (Random House Audio) | Six Key Events in the Founding of the United States |
| Notes from Nethers:* Growing Up in a Sixties Commune |
Sandra Eugster | (Academy Chicago) | Ten Painful Years in a Hippy "Farm" |
| Wartime
Writings 1943 - 1949 |
Marguerite Duras | (New Press) | Autobiographical Bits and Unfinished Manuscripts of the Author of The Lover |
| Warm Springs Traces of a Childhood In FDR's Polio Heaven |
Susan Richards Shreve | (Mariner/Houghton Mifflin) | Going through Rehabilitation at Roosevelt's Foundation in Georgia |
| The Diving Pool* | Yoko Ogawa | (Picador) | Three Spooky Stories from Japan |
| Three Musketeers | Marcelo Birmajer | (The Toby Press) | Memoirs of "Los Desaparecidos" in Comic Novelistic Form |
| Yoga Mala:[G] The Seminal Guide to Ashtanga Yoga by The Living Master |
Sri K. Pattabhi Jois | (North Point Press) | Tales of Fasting (and No-Nonsense) from a Yogi |
| The Young Man From Savoy[B] |
Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz | (Host) | An Existentialist French Novel from the Pre-War Period |
| The House of Widows[B] | Askold Melnyczuk | (Graywolf Press) | An American Innocent in Europe |
| The Mirror in the Well[B] | Micheline Aharonian Marcom | (Dalkey Archive) | Passion in the Carpenter's Shop |
| The Magical Campus[B] University of North Carolina Writings --- 1917 - 1920 |
Thomas Wolfe Matthew J. Bruccoli, Aldo P. Magi, Editors |
(University of South Carolina) | All Too Early Works of the American Novelist |
|
Cancer and Dogs Writings by Letter-Carriers W. H. Fowler Photos of the Dalai Lama My Bloody Life Dada The Banner Joint |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
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A Coney Island Of the Mind: 50th Anniversary Edition |
Lawrence Ferlinghetti | (New Directions) | Famous Early Poems by A Famous Beat |
| The Military Band | Roger Vercel | [Reading] | Being in the Wrong War at The Wrong Time |
| Curds & Whey | Sandra Eugster | [Reading] | Cooking for the Army In a Commune |
| The Kayak Disaster | Sherry Simpson | [Reading] | Being in the Wrong Kayak At the Wrong Season In Alaska |
| Late-Winter Species
Era of the Homeless Indoors |
Rob Cook | [Poetry] | American Existential Poetry |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject | Eighteen Hits |
The Editors of RALPH | [List] | Our Editor's Choose the Best Books of the First Half of 2008 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Of Kids & Parents* |
Emil Hakl Marek Tomin, Translator |
(Twisted Spoon Press) | Father and Son Walking and Reminiscing on the Streets of Prague |
| The Carver and the Artist Maori Art in The Twentieth Century |
Damian Skinner | (Auckland University Press) | A Hundred Plates, with Commentary, of Contemporary Indigenous Art |
| The Soul Thief | Charles Baxter | (Pantheon) | A Novel about a Novel About a Novel |
| One More Year | Sana Krasikov | (Spiegel & Grau) | Eight Short Stories about The World between Tbilisi and New York |
| Eat, Pray, Love | Elizabeth Gilbert | (Viking) | Eating, Praying and Loving Here and Abroad All Squashed into a Single Year |
| Talking out of School Memoir of an Educated Woman |
Kass Fleisher | (Dalkey Archive) | A Horror Story of Growing up in Pennsylvania (and Trying to Reform Educational Bureaucracy) |
| The Animal That Therefore I Am |
Jacques Derrida | (Fordham University Press) | The Philosopher Wondering about Being Naked in Front of His Cat |
| Long Way Back to The River Kwai [G] Memories of World War II |
Loet Velmans | (Arcade) | Five Years in Japanese Concentration Camps |
| Ten Interviews | The Editors of RALPH | [List] | The Best of Interviews from The Previous Fourteen Years of Our Magazine |
| Anorexia Insensitive Reviews RALPH to Receive $10,000,000 America's Child Bare Hope Love |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| Wordolatry | Jon Gallant | [Article] | How the Far Left Gets Ensnared in Its Own Words |
| Beautiful Summer In New Jersey |
B. W. McClellan | [Article] | Three Months in a Torture Camp for Children |
| Human Goulash | Emil Hakl | [Reading] | Cooking Up Supper (With Real Meat) |
| To Meet Your Own Son | Emil Hakl | [Reading] | Twenty Years after His Being Born |
| Tuareg | Philip Rush | [Poem] |
Going off to Join the Tuaregs (And Their Nose-Flutes) |
| litany | Carolyn Creedon | [Poem] | Love in a Café |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject | Fifteen Classics |
The Editors of RALPH | [List] | The Best of Classic Literature: New Editions, and New Discs and Tapes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lopsided* How Having Breast Cancer Can Be Really Distracting |
Meredith Norton | (Viking) | Surviving the Double Whammy of Breast Cancer (at Age 33) |
| Martinique ---
Snake Charmer Martinique --- Charmeuse de Serpents |
André Breton |
(University of Texas Press) | The Famed Surrealist on His Escape from Vichy France |
| A Woman's Work With Gurdjieff, Ramana Maharshi, Krishnamurti, Anandamaya Ma & Pak Subuh: |
Mary Ellen Korman | (Arete) | The Spiritual Life Journey of Ethel Merston |
| The Love of Impermanent Things:* A Threshold Ecology |
Mary Rose O'Reilley | (Milkweed) | Taking Care of Animals, Husbands, and the World as a Sometimes Working Saint |
| Intercourse* Stories |
Robert Olen Butler | (Chronicle Books) | Both Sides of the Nighttimes of The Greats of History and Romance |
| My Ántonia | Willa Cather | (Blackstone Audio) | The Classic of Nebraska Farm Life in the 1880s |
| Hardscrabble Poems |
Kevin McFadden | (University of Georgia Press) | Jesuitical Prose (and Poems) On Roads, Travel, and U. S. Names |
| The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and The British Spy Ring In Wartime Washington |
Jennet Conant | (HighBridge Audio) | The English Spying on America During WWII |
| A Doll's House[G] | Henrik Ibsen | (Ivan R. Dee) | The Classic of a Woman Trapped in Her Own Home (By Herself) |
Disability, Deafness and Depression Philip Roth Indignation Down Syndrome & Charles De Gaulle Robert Daley & The Enemy of God |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
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Just Another Hurricane Memories from 1945 |
L. W. Milam | [Article] | Survival of Childhood Cyclones |
| Dear President Bush | William "Willie" Carstairs | [Letter] | A Plea to Help the Poor of the Nation |
| The Uses of Rubber Bands, or "Var Är Min Paraply" |
Dr. Phage | Great Article From the Past |
Old Age and Learning Swedish |
| The Grandmothers in My Hebrew Class |
Gregory Levey | [Reading] | Several Very Old Ladies Learning the Language of Love |
| After the Mastectomy |
Meredith Norton | [Reading] | Being Cared for in the Hospital (By a Husband and Three Ex-Lovers |
| The Death of A Mother |
Mary Rose O'Reilley | [Reading] | The Art of Learning to Forgive Mother |
| The Book of
The Eton Cow The Lonely Planet Visits the Dead |
Fiona Farrell | [Poetry] | Two Poems Based on Early Irish Manuscripts |
| E-Mail You | C. A. Amantea | [Poem] | Old Age and New Technology |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject | Twelve on Wall Street |
The Editors of RALPH | [List] | Classic Articles, Reviews, and Readings on Investing |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Human Rights in African Prisons |
Jeremy Sarkin, Editor | (Ohio University Press) |
Ten Essays on the Past and Present State of The African Penal System |
| Fruitless Fall The Collapse of the Honey Bee and The Coming Agricultural Crises |
Rowan Jacobsen | (Bloomsbury) |
What is CCD Syndrome? Where It Came From Where It Is Taking us |
| Unpacking the Boxes A Memoir of a Life in Poetry |
Donald Hall | (Houghton Mifflin) |
Yet Another Autobiography From the Famous Poet |
| The Eden Express[G] A Memoir of Insanity |
Mark Vonnegut | (Seven Stories) |
A Memorable Autobiography of the Son Of the Writer (While Hippie) |
| Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds* Mexican Immigration and The Future of Race in America |
Gregory Rodriguez | (Vintage) |
Five Centuries of Racial Love (And Fear) in and between the U. S. and Mexico |
|
Dictation Taxi Drivers |
Katryn Simmonds | [Poems] | Two Poems from Wales |
| Spam and Literature
Virtual If Not Viral Advertising on RALPH The Enemy of God Robert Daley Rototilers Reymundo Sanchez |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| The Louisiana Purchase | Joseph J. Ellis | [Reading] | How Thomas Jefferson Broke His Oath of President |
| Music in the Middle Ages A Reference Guide |
Suzanne Lord | (Greenwood Press) |
A Recounting of the Music in Europe During the Dark Ages |
| Out on Our Assets | Dr. Phage | [Article] |
How Your Will Be Allowed to Visit Your Assets after the Meltdown |
| Twenty Fragments of A Ravenous Youth A Novel |
Xiaolu Guo |
(Nan Talese/ Doubleday) |
Adventures of a Young Lady Eating Her Way Through Present-Day Beijing |
| Jean-Paul Sartre Simone de Bouvier |
Robert Butler | [Reading] |
The Innermost Thoughts of The Famous Couple (While Mating) |
| I Want to Take You Higher The Life and Times of Sly and the Family Stone |
Jeff Kaliss | (Backbeat Books) |
The Adventures of Sylvester Stewart Since the 1970s |
| Out Stealing Horses* | Pers Petterson | (Graywolf Press) |
Growing Up (and Living in) The Woods on the Swedish-Norwegian Border |
| Wallace Stegner's West | Page Stegner, Editor | (Heyday/Santa Clara University) | Fiction and Non-Fiction from the Pulitzer Prize Winner |
| Casualty Figures How Five Men Survived The First World War |
Michèle Barrett | (Verso) |
Five Personal Accounts of Those Who Lived Through World War One |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject | Fifteen Years, Fifteen Hits |
The Editors of RALPH | [List] | Favored Reviews, Articles, Readings and Poems from the First Fifteen Years of RALPH |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov | Peter Pringle | (Simon & Schuster) | One of the early greats of microbiology felled because of political disfavor in the Soviet Union |
| 50 Photographers You Should Know* |
Peter Stephan, John Gabriel, Text Translator |
(Prestel) | The History of Photography in Simple Yet Honorable Scale |
| Serpent's Tale | Ariana Franklin | (Books on Tape) | A Tale of Medieval Blood-Lust and Historical Mayhem |
| The Logic of Life The Rational Economics of an Irrational World |
Tim Harford John Lee, Reader |
(Books on Tape) |
The Politics (and Power) of Econimoc Determinism |
| Fifty-Eight Days in the Cajundome Shelter |
Ann B. Dobie | (Pelican) |
The Survivors of Rita and Katrina Under Guard |
| Talking Taíno Caribbean Natural History from a Native Perspective |
William F. Keegan Lisabeth A. Carlson |
(University of Alabama) |
The Original Language of the Original Inhabitants of the American Caribbean |
| Steward of Song | Adam Stemple | (Tor) | A Gay Detective and a Killer of Her Grandmother (In Scotland) |
| Sex Talks to Girls* A Memoir |
Maureen Seaton | (University of Wisconsin) | She Was a Drunk (Married to a Rich Drunk) (Then She Went Gay) |
| Scheisshaus Luck* Surviving the Unspeakable in Auschwitz and Dora |
Pierre Berg | (Amacom) |
Eighteen Years Old and Eighteen Months in Auschwitz |
| Cuba* Art and History from 1868 to Today |
Moraima Clavijo Colon (Curator) Nathalie Bondit (Director) |
(The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts/ (Prestel) |
One Hundred Fifty Years of Fine Art in Cuba |
| The Lost King of France[G] Revolution, Revenge, and the Search for Louis XVII |
Deborah Cadbury | (Fourth Estate) | A Strange Account of the Beginnings of the French Revolution |
| Managing Your Assets In Troubled Times Rev. Larry Parks Shipping Parts Diamonds Reymundo Sanchez My Bloody Life |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| Twenty-Seven Great Books on Disability |
L. W. Milam | [List] | The Best of Handicapped Literature |
| The Eyes of The City: Jane Jacobs |
Tim Harford | [Reading] |
What the Eyes of the City Cannot Protect Us From |
| American Sugar Subsidies |
Tim Harford | [Reading] |
Thirty-three Sugar Refiners Running Our Trade and Subsidy Policies |
| Pangur Bán My Cat |
Anon | [Poem] | Eighth Century Poem of Cat-Love |
| Fly in a Hospital The Bearded Lady and The Mannequin |
Paul Graves | [Poems] | Two from Wales |