FIFTEEN GREAT REVIEWS
Media Violence and Its Effect on Aggression
The Life and Works of Frank Lloyd Wright
Trekking through the Moroccan Sahara
Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression
Wind & Sand: The Wright Brothers
Derrida's Right of Inspection
Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy
Johann Sebastian Bach
The Crucifixion in American Art
World War One's Kaiserschlact
Bugs, Bites and Bowels
Shipwreck and Survival
In Shackleton's Wake
On S. J. Perelman
Being Dead

TEN GREAT ARTICLES
Billy Wong
The Happy Years
My Brilliant Career
Hugh Gallagher
Pier-Luigi Zucchini
Chacun a Son Gout
The Øresund Fixed Link
Disability Rights And Russia
Doing the Tarantella at the Barnes Foundation
Nudism, Multiple Personality Disorder and The Hi-Rise Novel

TEN GREAT POEMS
Credo
January 1940
Circumcision
Hurricane Fred
Why They Do It
Song of Welcome
Hitler's First Photograph
To A Former Mistress, Now Dead
Acupuncture and Cleansing at Forty-Eight
A Cricket in the Telephone (at Sunset)

NEW TITLES
The Day We Found the Universe
"In answer to
the question of
why it happened,
I offer the modest proposal
that our Universe
is simply one of those things
which happen from time to time."

Dorothea Lange
"The chance nature
of this photograph
the biographer asserts,
results from the kind of luck
that comes only with
years of practice."

Bonsai
"Suddenly a purple bear appears.
A very large bear that slowly,
heavily approaches the bodies and
with the same slowness starts
to walk around them,
until it has completed
a circle."

LETTERS
Boo Napoleon

MORE LETTERS
San Diego
Profane Pix

EVEN MORE LETTERS
Cryptic Letters of the Month
Warmly Huggs
Ice Cream Carts

YET EVEN MORE LETTERS
Letters We Never Finished Reading
Non-Stick
Bipolar Forceps and
Bi-Clams

ARTICLE
Some Different Kinds of Obamanation
"The award was given
to the U.S. President for
not being George W. Bush,
a simple accomplishment,
but one for which
much of the world
is deeply grateful."

READINGS
A Red-Haired Valkyrie
"She turned her Montana lover into a man.
She's turned me into a stalker.
Who knows what she may be turning you into.
She leaves a trail of disaster."

POETRY
Flat Mate
"My shadow pressed a hot-water bottle
against my ruptured side and tucked me in.
Her mobile phone shivered like a habit.
A shred of stocking caught in the flung door."

THE OFFICIAL RALPH
Paradox-of-the-Month

GENERAL INDEX
All the back-issues of RALPH,
including titles of books under review,
along with author, subject, and publisher,
plus links to readings, articles, and poems
that have appeared on-line
since 1994.

A PITHY SAMPLE
of our most notorious reviews
as collected in the hard-copy
"FOLIO"

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