| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Twisted Spoon Press Bob Poole & "Poole's Paradise" My Bloody Life Cryptic Letters of the Month Cock Cages Gravitation and the Stars Letters We Never Finished Reading A Wicked Uncle |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| In the American Grain(N) | William Carlos Williams | (New Directions) | Essays on America and American History |
| Going Green(N) True Tales from Gleaners, Scavengers and Dumpster Divers |
Laura Pritchett, Editor | (Oklahoma) |
How-to-Do-It on Saving Money (and Saving the Planet) |
| Florida's Rivers(N) | Charles R. Boning | (Pineapple Press) |
The Sixty Major Florida Rivers Graded by Type and Ecology |
| Do Nothing(N) Inner Peace for Everyday Living |
Siroj Sorajjakool | (Templeton Foundation) |
Readings from and Thoughts on the Chinese Philosopher Chaung Tzu |
| Yellowstone Drift(N) Floating the Past in Real Time |
John Holt | (AK Press) | Living in the Upper Reasches of the Yellowstone River |
| Dream Street | Douglas McCulloh | (Icelandia/Heyday) |
Photographs and the Day-to-Day of Building a Tickey-Tacky |
| The Ascent of Money A Financial History of the World |
Niall Ferguson | (Penguin) | The Dismal Science Enlivened (and Brought Up-to-Date) |
| Live Nude Girl My Life as an Object |
Kathleen Rooney | (University of Arkansas Press) |
Your Worst Nightmares of Posing Nude Brought to Life |
| Diario de Oaxaca (Oaxaca Diary) |
Peter Kuper | (PM Press) | Two Years in the City of Oaxaca (with Art) |
| The Amos Oz Reader | Amos Oz | (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) | Eighteen of Oz's Stories, Essays, Speeches and Parts of Novels |
| The River Flows North | Graciela Limón | (Arte Público Press) | Ten or So Pilgrims from Mexico Stumbling across the Desert |
| 86'd A Novel |
Dan Fante | (Harper Perennial) | Dope and Sex and Vomit and General Squalor |
| Getting Away with Murder On the Texas Frontier(B) Notorious Killings and Celebrated Trials |
Bill Neal | (Texas Tech University Press) |
Even More Squalor on Texas Ranches and in its Courthouses |
| Translation is A Love Affair(B) | Jacques Poulin | (Archipelago) |
Working in Quebec for A Doubtful Novelist |
| The Little Black Book Of Grisélidis Réal(B) Days and Nights of An Anarchist Whore |
Jean-Luc Hennig, | (Semiotext(e)/MIT) |
Everything You Don't Want to Know About the Prostitute Life |
| American Salvage(B) | Bonnie Jo Campbell | (Wayne State University Press) |
Too Many Stories of the Dopey Life in the Middle West |
| B Is for Bad Poetry | Pamela August Russell | (Sterling) | The Title Says It All |
| Peoples of the Plateau(B)* The Indian Photographs of Lee Moorhouse, 1898 - 1915 |
Steven L. Grafe | (University of Oklahoma Press) | The Southern Plateau Indians of the Columbia Basin as as Seen a Hundred Years Ago |
| Revolution in Seattle(B) A Memoir |
Harvey O'Connor | (Haymarket) | A Memorial to the Radicals of the Seattle General Strike and the Everett Massacre |
| Black Glasses Like
Clark Kent(B) A GI's Secret from Postwar Japan |
Teerese Svoboda | (Graywolf Press) |
We Are Never Told the Secret Which Caused the Suicide of Ms. Svoboda's Uncle |
| Apollo:(B) Through the Eyes Of the Astronauts |
Robert Jacobs, et al, Editors | (Abrams) | Dozens of Photographs from the Years of the Apollo Space Mission |
| Malinche(G) | Laura Esquivel | (Atria) |
A Reenactment of the Story of the Náhuatl Who Helped Hernán Cortés |
| The Black Room
At Longwood(G) Napoleon's Exile on Saint Helena |
Jean-Paul Kauffmann | (Four Walls, Eight Windows) |
A Reporter Goes to the Bleak Island to Find the True Story of Its Most Famous Inhabitant |
| Sweet Dumb Doggie | [Article] | L. W. Milam | A Memento Mori of a Street Dog |
| A Friend in Zagreb | Shon Meckfessel | [Reading] | Meeting an Old Man in Zagreb |
| Lincoln: The Woman |
William Carlos Williams | [Reading] |
A Tale of the Log-Splitter from In the American Grain |
| Question | May Swenson | [Poem | Modern American Poetry |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
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Grisélidis Réal Bob Poole & "Poole's Paradise" Dog Cancer Yak Cock Cages Gravitation and the Stars Letters We Never Finished Reading I Am a Princess |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| The Best of 2009 | The Editors of RALPH | [List] | Ten Great Books of the Year |
| Revolution 1989* The Fall of the Soviet Empire |
Victor Sebestyen | (Pantheon) |
A Month-By-Month Study of the Fall of the Russian Imperium |
| Tooth and Claw A Mystery |
Nigel McCrery | (Pantheon) |
A Bloody Tale of Murder in the TV News Department |
| Spooner | Pete Dexter | (Grand Central) | A Bildingsroman across America From the Late 1960s |
| The Pink Lady The Many Lives of Helen Gahagan Douglas |
Sally Denton | (Bloomsbury) | The Lady Who Was Savaged By Richard Nixon in 1950 |
|
Your Face Tomorrow Volume III --- Poison, Shadow and Farewell |
Javier Marķas Margaret Jull Costa, Translator |
(New Directions) |
Another Ramshackle Novel from the Hands of the Spanish Master |
| Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi* A Novel |
Geoff Dyer | (Pantheon) | A Weird Mix of Venice Art and Indian Artlessness |
| The Bird of Dawning* Or, The Fortune of the Sea |
John Masefield | (National Maritime Museum) |
A Sterling Saga of the Sea from the Mid-19th Century |
| The Genesis of Flight The Aeronautical History Collection of Colonel Richard Gimbel |
Tom D. Crouch, Editor |
(Friends of the U. S. Air Force Academy and the University of Washington) |
A Merry Flight over the History of Flight |
| The Exploding Eye | L. W. Milam | [Article] |
The Injection of an Air Bubble into the Eyeball after Surgery |
| William Faulkner | Javier Marías | [Reading] |
A Biographical Note about The Author by the Author |
| The Meaning of History | Octavio Paz | [Reading] |
The Evolution of Communist Thought in the 1930s |
| Water Picture | May Swenson | [Poem] | Neo-Realist American Poetry |
| The Underneath | Christine Hamm | [Poem] | Neo-Imagist American Poetry |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
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Reginald A Fessenden Luke Swank The Maxim Gun War and Regular People The Brain of Pooh Writing as Therapy Letters We Never Finished Reading Kisses Your New Friend Heartful of Tears |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| Twelve or So Hits | The Editors of RALPH | [List] |
Twelve Reviews, Readings and Poems Most Often Accessed by Our Readers |
| Body Copy A Novel |
Michael Craven | (Harper) |
Another Tough Los Angeles Private Investigator Story |
| The Book of Fathers A Novel |
Miklós Vámos | (Other Press) | Twelve Generations of Hungarians in Love, Hate, and War |
| Land of the Lost Souls My Life on the Streets |
Cadillac Man | (Bloomsbury) | Tales from the Grimy Streets of New York |
| Erotic Poems* | e. e. cummings | (Norton) |
Classic Iambs of Love from the 20th Century Poet |
| The Innocent III Abroad | Stephen O'Shea | [Reading] | The 13th Century Pontiff as a Blood Warrior |
| The Last of His Mind A Year in the Shadow of Alzheimer's |
John Thorndike | (Swallow) | Caring for a Parent with What They Once Called Senile Dementia |
| The Art of Rockefeller Center[G] | Christine Roussel | (Norton) |
Some of the Hidden Etchings and Designs at the Complex Revealed |
| Reynaud and Saladin | Stephen O'Shea | [Reading] | Medieval Islam and Christianity |
|
Eddie Signwriter A Novel |
Adam Schwartzman | (Pantheon) | Portrait of a Young Artist of Ghana |
| Louis H. Sullivan And the 19th-Century Poetics of Naturalized Architecture |
Lauren S. Weingarden | (Ashgate) |
A Look at the American Architect as a Student of Ruskin |
| FDR v. The Constitution The Court-Packing Fight and The Triumph of Democracy |
Burt Solomon | (Walker & Co.) |
Roosevelt's 1937 Plan to Expand the Supreme Court |
| The Psychotherapist Is Always Late[G] |
Les Triangles de Chloé Gaëtan Brulotte David Tucker, Translator |
[Reading] | Adventures in Psychotherapyland |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
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Enrico Dandolo The Doge of Venice Oil from Iraq The Effects of War Charles Bukowski on Boils Subscriptions to RALPH in Foreign Currencies I Love You Prince Al |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| OUR 200th ISSUE: The Best of the Best |
The Editors of RALPH | [List] |
Fifteen of the Most Worthy Books Reviewed on Our Pages over the Last Few Years |
| OUR 200th ISSUE: Some Also-Rans |
The Editors of RALPH | [List] | Thirty Almost Equally Worthy Books |
| OUR 200th ISSUE: A Dozen Stinkers |
The Editors of RALPH | [List] |
Twelve or so Ghastlies We Reluctantly Reviewed |
| OUR 200th ISSUE: Editors' Picks |
The Editors of RALPH | [List] |
The Best Articles, Poems, and Readings from Our First Five Years |
|
OUR 200th ISSUE: The Paradox of Paradoxes |
The Editors of RALPH | [List] | A Selection of Fifteen of Our Favorite Paradoxes: Questions of the Ages --- Posed But Never Exposed |
| Bad Cop New York's Least Likely Police Officer Tells All |
Paul Bacon | (Bloomsbury) |
The Harold Lloyd of the 15th Precinct Tells All |
| The Black Girl Next Door A Memoir |
Jennifer Baszile | (Touchstone/S&S) |
Growing up Rich (but Misunderstood) in Palo Verdes |
| The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want[B] A Book about Noise |
Garret Keizer | (PublicAffairs) |
Everything You Don't Want to Know about Screeching, Howling, Buzzing, Sirens, Motors, Drones and Whistles |
| Daughters of Zion[B] A Family's Conversion to Polygamy |
Kim Taylor | (Rogue Hill) |
Everything You Don't Want to Know about Having 400 or 500 In-Laws |
| La's Orchestra Saves the World[B] A Novel |
Alexander McCall Smith | (Pantheon) | The Guy Who Invented "The #1 Ladies Detective Agency" on Life in WWII Britain |
| First Light:[B] Five Photographers Explore Yosemite's Wilderness |
Charles Cramer, et. al. | (Heyday Books) |
An Exquisite Collection of Photographs of Hidden Yosemite |
| "On the Death of Mr Barker of Hammon, and his wife who dyed both together" |
George Herbert | [Poem] | An Exquisite Exposition on the Death of a Loving Couple |
| Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America |
Jack Rakove | (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) |
The Thesis Being that the Revolutionaries of 1776 Were Not Very Revolutionary at All |
| In the Time of the Lime Trees | Olga Tokarczuk | [Reading] | The Limes that Grow on the Jeszkotle to Kieice Road |
| The Partial Vapor Pressure of Khometz |
Dr. Phage | [Article] | The Difference Between the Letter KHET and the Letter MEM |
| Primeval and Other Times* |
Olga Tokarczuk Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Translator |
(Twisted Spoon) |
The Lives (and Deaths) of a 20th Century Polish Community |
| Dancing Under the Red Star[G] The Extraordinary Story of Margaret Werner, the Only American Woman to Survive Stalin's Gulag |
Karl Tobin | (Water Brook) |
Years of Enforced Isolation in Gorky --- and in the Gulags |
| Meeting D. T. Suzuki | Jacob Needleman | [Reading] | "What is the Self?" "Who is asking the question?" |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dada Rototillers Adrienne Rich The Winter War Music of the Middle Ages One in a Million, Baby Burkina-Faso Gold Mine |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| African Taxi Opera | Douglas Cruickshank | [Article] | Getting around Uganda in an Overloaded Taxi |
| The Best American Travel Writing --- 2009 |
Simon Winchester, Editor |
(Mariner) | True Stories from around the World |
| The Blue Tattoo The Life of Olive Oatman |
Margot Mifflin | (Nebraska) | The Life of a Victorian Woman with a (Blue) Tattoo on her Chin |
| Upgraded to Serious [B] | Heather McHugh | (Copper Canyon Press) | Contemporary American Poetry |
| Is Life Like This?[B] A Guide to Writing Your First Novel in Six Months |
John Dufresne | (Norton) | A Point-by-Point Guide to Making a Novel |
|
A Bomb in Every Issue[B] How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America |
Peter Richardson | (The New Press) |
A History of the Explosive Magazine from the Sixties |
| My Men[B] | Malika Mokeddem | (Nebraska) | The Autobiography of the Great Feminist from Algeria |
| Difficult Days | David Lodge | [Reading] | Notes from a Fictional Writer's Life |
| The Edge of Physics A Journey to Earth's Extremes To Unlock the Secrets of the Universe |
Anil Ananthaswamy | (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) |
Some of the More Obscure Elements of Astrophysics Examined |
| Pipestone My Life in an Indian Boarding School |
Adam Nordwall (Adam Fortunate Eagle) |
(Oklahoma) | Life in a BIA School |
| Justine velocisima | Oliver Welden | [Poem] | Love Poem from Chile |
| Revolution on Paper Mexican Prints 1910 - 1960 |
Mark McDonald, Editor | (Texas) | Diego Rivera José Clemente Orozco David Alfaro Siqueiros and 32 Others |
| Prisons of Poverty* | Loïc Wacquant | (Minnesota) | How Prisons are Taking over from the Ghetto |
| The Demonic Myth of "The Prison-Industrial Complex" |
Loïc Wacquant | [Reading] | The Growth of Prisons Caused by Some Other Factors |
| Résistance* A Woman's Journal of Struggle and Defiance in Occupied France |
Agnès Humbert | (Bloomsbury) | Four Years as a Prisoner of the Nazis |
| Washington Sculpture:* A Cultural History of Outdoor Sculpture in The Nation's Capital |
Hames M. Goode | (Johns Hopkins) |
Over Five Hundred Sculptures Illustrated and Explained |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisawa Szymborska A Graduation Speech My Bloody Life (Reymundo Sanchez) Chrome Hairpin Tables Hopping to Hear FORGIVE MY INDIGNATION |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| Edward Lear: Egyptian Sketches | Jenny Gaschke | (National Maritime Museum) | Sketches and Water-colors by the Famous Rhymster |
| Points of View Capturing the 19th Century in Photographs |
John Falconer, Louise Hide, Editors | (The British Library) | 200 Classic Black-and-White Photographs from the 19th Century |
| I Am Not Sidney Poitier | Percival Everett | (Graywolf) | A Riotous Novel about Growing Up as Not a Movie Star |
| Scenes from La Cuenca de Los Angeles* Y Otros Natural Disasters | Susana Chávez-Silverman | (University of Wisconsin) | A Spanglish Version of Love and Loss In San Francisco (and the World) |
| Rhyming Life & Death A Novel |
Amos Oz Nicholas de Lange Translator | (Mariner) | The Famous Author Gives A Reading on Tel Aviv (and Finds Love) (Sort Of) |
| Making
Poems Forty Poems with Commentary by the Poets |
Todd Davis Erin Murphy Editors | (Excelsior/University of New York) | Poems, Each with Narrative by the Writer |
| Audition |
Ryu Murakami Ralph McCarthy, Translator | (Norton) | A Scary Novel about A Woman's Revenge |
| A Colossal Failure of
Common Sense The Incredible Inside Story of The Collapse of Lehman Brothers |
Larry McDonald, Patrick Robinson | (Ebury Press) | The Story, as Told by One Who Was Near (But Not Too Near) the Top |
| The Collected Poems Of Dylan Thomas: Original Edition | Introduction by Paul Muldoon | (New Directions) | Almost 100 Poems By the Welch Writer And Orator |
| Meteorites | Caroline Smith, et al | (Firefly) | A Short Volume on Some of These Thousands of Extraterrestrial Visitors |
| Florida's Great
Ocean Railway Building the Key West Extension | Dan Gallagher | (Pineapple Press) | Flagler's Folly in Photographs and Drawings |
| Human Rights in African Prisons[G] | Jeremy Sarkin, Editor | (Ohio University Press) | Essays on the Countries You Should (And Should Not) Get Arrested in |
| Mitsubishi Galante | Jon Gallant | [Article] | How the Writer's Family Came into the Auto Business |
| Busto- and Lip-Inflated Blow-Arriba Dolls | Susana Chávez-Silverman | [Reading] | Going Malling Filled con Mi Peor Fobia |
| A Lifetime of Pickles and Lard Sandwiches | Ted Kooser | [Reading] | Growing up in Iowa 100 Years Ago |
| From the Tower | Heather McHugh | [Poetry] | 21st Century American poetry |
| Signs You
Are Ovulating What We Think About The Missing Girl | Christine Hamm | [Poetry] | 21st Century American poetry |