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My Bloody Life Bob Poole & Poole's Paradise The Tale of an Old Bay Fisherman Offer to Buy RALPH!!! |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| The Oddest Books | The Editors of RALPH | [List] | A Selection of Titles That We've Received Over the Years That Some May Consider a Bit Strange |
| 1914* A Novel | Jean Echenoz |
(The New Press) |
The Terrible First Months of WWI. |
| A Sense Sublime | Richard Quinney | (Borderland Books) | Meditation (with Simple, Elegant Photographs) On Living in the Modern Rural Middle West. |
| The Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka
Stanley Corngold Translator and Editor |
(Modern Library) | Wretched Excess in the Form of a Great Story Dolled Up with What the Kids Call "TMI." |
| Poets Translate Poets A Hudson Review Anthology |
Paula Deitz, Editor | (Syracuse University Press) | Twenty-five Different Languages Represented in Over Two Hundred Poems. |
| Sex Is Forbidden* A Novel |
Tim Parks | (Arcade) | A Vamp Takes Over a Buddhist Retreat. |
| Counterclockwise* My Year of Hypnosis, Hormones, Dark Chocolate, and Other Adventures in The World of Anti-Aging |
Lauren Kessler | (Rodale) | The Author Spends a Year Learning to Try to Put off the Inevitable. |
| Riverbanks Zoo and Garden Forty Wild Years |
Palmer "Satch" Krantz and Monique Blanchette Jacobs |
(The University of South Carolina Press) | Putting Together an Entire Zoo (from Scratch). |
| The Chrysler Building[G] Creating a New Icon Day by Day |
David Stravitz | (Princeton Architectural) | Old Photographs Reveal how The Great Building Was Done. |
| Pushing the Limits:[G] New Adventures in Engineering |
Henry Petroski | (Knopf) | Some of the Most Repulsive Structures in the World Deified. |
| My Bloody Life[G] The Making of a Latino King |
Reymundo Sanchez | (Chicago Review Press) | A Young Latino on the Streets of Chicago Becoming Part of the 'Hood. |
| Why Is Beethoven So Different? | Jon Gallant | [Article] | Trying to Figure Our What Separates Beethoven from Haydn and Mozart. |
| The Deserter | Jean Echenoz | [Reading] | A Young Soldier in 1914 Accused of Deserting the Front. |
| In Siberia | Colin Thubron | [Reading] | Eastern Russia after the Latest Economic "Reform." |
| Gringolandia A Guide for Puzzled Mexicans |
Jon Gallant L. W. Milam |
[Reading] | This Side of the Border Explained for the Innocent. |
| Pity the Lady | Diana Boernstein | [Poem] | Madness and the Moths. |
| Obituary | Weldon Kees | [Poem] | The Death of Boris the Parrot |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
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Getting Shortlisted
Civil Wars Kinda Talking, Kinda Wanting Letters We Never Finished Reading Mind Your Transactions |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| Twelve Stars | The Editors of RALPH | [List] | A List of Some of the Best New Books That Have Come into Our Offices Over the Last Six to Eight Months |
| The Antidote
Inside the World of New Pharma | Barry Werth |
(Simon & Schuster) |
A Look inside an Upcoming Pharma Company To Understand the Trials and Tribulations Of Bringing a New Drug to Market |
| Inside the Rainbow* Russian Children's Literature 1920 - 1935: Beautiful Books, Terrible Times |
Julian Rothenstein, Olga Budashevskaya, Editors |
(Redstone Press) |
The High Years of Soviet Children's Literature (With Great Pictures) |
|
Gold*
The Race for the World's Most Seductive Metal | Matthew Hart |
(Simon & Schuster) |
The Brief and Pungent Story of The Search for Gold Then and Now |
| All Men Are Brothers | Mohandas K. Gandhi |
(Bloomsbury) |
Several Hundred Excerpts of Gandhi's Speeches on Topics Ranging from Birth Control To Murder and War |
| The Hungry Eye
Poems of Food & Drink | Kevin Young |
(Bloomsbury) |
A Hundred or So Poems All Having --- Presumably --- to Do with Eating and Drinking |
| The United States of Paranoia
A Conspiracy Theory | Jesse Walker |
(Harper) |
Everything You Didn't Want to Know About America's Real and Mythical Operations Against Its Own Citizens |
| Proof of Heaven A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into the Afterlife | Eben Alexander, M. D. |
(Simon & Schuster) |
A Doctor's Own Journey Into the Other World |
| A Long Way from Verona*
A Novel | Jane Gardam |
(Europa Editions) |
What It's Like to Be 12-Going-on-13 (And Too Smart for Your Own Good) |
| The Empty Chair
Two Novellas | Bruce Wagner |
(Blue Rider/Penguin) |
Two Stories About Westerners Besotted With Matters Out of the East |
| The Practical
Guide to Aging[G]
What Everyone Needs to Know | Christine K. Cassel, Editor |
(New York University) |
Too Much about What You Shouldn't Even Think about Knowing About Death and Dying |
| Abbott Awaits[G]
A Novel | Chris Bachelder |
Louisiana State University Press) |
A Fine Tale about Raising a Child |
| Lady Di, This Is Burger King
And Batman, Meet Harry Potter --- And His Side-Kick, Scrotum | [Article] |
(The Editors) |
Recent Moves to Limit the Choice Of Names for the Newly Arrived |
| Joining the Navy | Suzanne McMinn |
[Reading] |
What to Do When Your Son Announces that He Is about To Join a Submarine Crew |
| The Monster at The End of this Book | Jesse Walker |
[Reading] |
The Varieties of Conspiracies (Real and Imagined) In the US |
| The Philosophy Of Consciousness | Thomas Metzinger |
[Reading] |
What Do You Think When You Think about Consciousness For a Living |
| The Bell from Europe | Weldon Kees |
[Poem] |
The Various Songs Of the Bells of Europe |
| Song of Resignation | Yehuda Amichai |
[Poem] |
How to Surrender after You've Looked into Your Son's Eyes (and Seen Your Own Looking Back at You) |
| Obituary | Weldon Kees | [Poem] | The Death of Boris the Parrot |
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The Wrath of God!
Edible Gelatin Letters We Never Finished Reading Forgive my indignation |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| Twenty-One Beautiful Pages |
The Editors of RALPH | [List] | A Compilation of Those Pages that Our Editors Believe to be the Most Comely |
| Chickens in the Road* An Adventure in Ordinary Splendor |
Suzanne McMinn | (Harper One) | In which Our Writer Leaves the Big City and Settles in a Godforsaken Corner of West Virginia --- and Prospers |
|
This Place, These People Life and Shadow on the Great Plains |
Nancy Warner, David Stark |
(Columbia University Press) | A Visit (in Words, in Photographs) To a Dying Village on the Plains |
|
Junkyard Planet
Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade |
Adam Minter | (Bloomsbury) | He Grows Up in a Junkyard, and now Explores the New Frontiers of Junkery |
| The Severed Head
Capital Visions |
Julia Kristeva | (Columbia University Press) | An Extended Study of the Separation of Head from Body |
| On the Cancer Frontier
One Man, One Disease, And a Medical Revolution |
Paul Marks, M.D. James Sterngold |
(Public Affairs) | New Dimensions on the Frontiers of Science: Specifically, Cancer |
| Men in Prison* | Victor Serge | (PM) | One of the Great Anarchist Writers on The Reality of Prison |
| Black Vodka
Ten Stories |
Deborah Levy | (Bloomsbury USA) | Ten Definitely Oddball Stories Written in a Rich, Spare Style |
| Young Skins* | Colin Barrett | (Stinging Fly Press) | The New Ireland of Tedium, Easy Violence, Easy Love |
| The Guy Davenport Reader* | Erik Reece, Editor | (Counterpoint) | Essays on Love, Secret Caves, the Odder Face of Franz Kafka, and Great Painters |
| Poetry of the First World War
An Anthology |
Tim Kendall | (Oxford) | Thirty English Poets Who Came from the Crucible of the Trenches |
| Mozart
A Life |
Paul Johnson | (Viking) | A HoHum Life of a not at all Ho-Hum Composer |
| Under a Glass Bell*[B]
And Other Stories |
Anaïs Nin | (Swallow) | The Lovely and Mysterious Nin in Her Days on a Barge in Paris |
| Flyover Lives[B]
A Memoir |
Diane Johnson | (Viking) | The Famed Writer in a Rather Self- Adsorbed Recounting of Her Life |
| The Third Son[B]
A Novel |
Julie Wu | (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill) | An Escape from Taiwan into the Equally Inescapable Mid-West |
| Of Grisélidis Réal[B][G]
Days and Nights of An Anarchist Whore |
Jean-Luc Hennig | (Semiotext(e)/MIT) | A Lady of the Night Who Has Her Own Proper Rules |
| The Cost of Lunch, Etc.[B]
Short Stories |
Marge Piercy | (PM) | Twenty Stories of American Life Apparently Thrown Out at Random |
|
Edward Lear[G]
Egyptian Sketches |
Jenny Gaschke | (National Maritime Museum) | Terrific Drawings from Egypt by the Master of Limericks |
| Scenes from
La Cuenca de
Los Angeles[G]
Y Otros Natural Disasters |
Susana Chávez-Silverman | (University of Wisconsin) | An Almost BiLingual Rendering of a Definite BiLingual Character |
| Belinda's World Tour | Guy Davenport | [Reading] | Franz Kafka Comes to Save Young Girl from the Loss of Her Doll |
| A Boston Panic Attack | Daniel Smith | [Reading] | A Panic Attack in the Midst of the Boston Holocaust Museum |
| The Life of
Richard Wagner[G]
(Alfred A Knopf) Volume One (1813-1848)XYZ |
Ernest Newman H G Mencken, Reviewer |
[Reading] | One of the Early Reviews of Mencken |
| Landing | Eleanor Wilner | [Poem] | The Beauty of a Fallen Parachute |
| At the IGA --- Franklin, New Hampshire | Jane Kenyon | [Poem] | A Breakdown in Front of the Grocery Store |
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RALPH's Issue #250
Angry Letters from the Past |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| Twelve Reviews The Meaning of Everything, Learning to Fall Whatever You Do, Don't Run, The Making of a Tropical Disease, etc |
[The Editors] | [Reviews] | A Dozen Classics Chosen from the over 4,000 We Have Put On-line Since 1995 |
| Twelve Articles Grandma Moses with Pompadour and Peggers, Doing the Tarantella At the Barnes Foundation, The Partial Vapor Pressure of Khometz, Hugh Gregory Gallagher, etc. |
[The Editors] | [Articles] | Articles on a Variety of Topics, Drawn from the More Than 400 We've Put up at RALPH over the Years |
| Twelve Readings S. J. Perelman, Gregory Bateson, H. L. Mencken, Annie Dillard, Elizabeth Gold, H. G. Wells, Laurie Lee, Harvey Molotch, Warren Hinckle, Ellsworth Huntington,etc. |
[The Editors] | [Readings] | A Dozen Readings --- Mostly from Books Under Review |
| Twelve Poems Not Exactly a Poem, Brooklyn College Brain, Coming of Age in Palo Alto, Five Men, etc. |
[The Editors] | [Poems] | A Dozen Poems from the More Than 500 We Have Put Online since 1995 |
| Great Letters Letters of Love, Hate, Vituperation, Praise, and Despair | [The Editors] | [Letters] | Letters Drawn from the Many Thousands We Have Received Over the Years |
| Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight over World War II, 1939-1941 |
Lynne Olson | (Random House) | The Controversies that Plagued the United States During the Nerve-Wracking Two Years Leading up to Pearl Harbor |
| The Skin* | Curzio Malaparte | (New York Review Books) | A Most Revealing Picture of Americans in Europe During the Closing Days of WWII |
| Behind the Beautiful Years
Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum |
Katherina Boo | (Portobello) | A Jarring Picture of Life in One of India's Most Desolate, Clotted, Disease-Infested Slums |
| Woody Guthrie's Wardy Forty
Greystone Park State Hospital Revisited |
Phillip Buehler | (Woody Guthrie Publications) | An Intense Picture of Guthrie's Last Years In Various Northeastern Hospitals |
| The Conditions of Hospitality
Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics on The Threshold of the Possible |
Thomas Claviez | (Fordham University Press) | A Close Examination of What Makes Us Hospitable --- Or, as Easily, Unreceptive --- of "Foreigners" or "Immigrants" |
| A Letter from The Department of Human Services |
Mike Ervin | [Article] | That Sinking Feeling in Your Heart When A Government Agency Writes to Tell You They Really Care |
| Eating the Fish-Girl For Dinner | Curzio Malaparte | [Reading] | A Blow-by-Blow Account of Feasting On the Fish-Girl at a Fancy Dinner in Naples, 1945 |
| Precision | Laurie Duesing | [Poem] | Watching YOur Life Go Up in Smoke When Your Love Has A Motorcycle Accident |