[N]To be found under "New Listings" --- also called "Recent Books"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit
Issue #55
www.ralphmag.org/AK/indexAK.html
Late, Late Winter 2001
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
Billy Wong |
Michael Ingall |
[Article] |
Psychotherapy |
Peggy Donnelly |
Michael Ingall |
[Article] |
Psychotherapy |
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Richard Casparian |
Michael Ingall |
[Article] |
Psychotherapy |
---|
The Black Beast: A German Love Song |
Franz Werfel |
[Poem] |
Modern German Poetry |
---|
Venona:[B] Decoding Soviet Espionage in America |
John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr |
Yale |
Espionage and Code-Breaking |
---|
The Race to the White Continent:[B] Voyages to the Antarctic |
Alan Gurney |
Norton |
Exploration |
---|
Slouching Towards Bethlehem[B] |
Joan Didion |
Modern Library |
Essays --- Contemporary Americana |
---|
Crossing the Bar |
Carlos Amantea |
[Article] |
Travel, Mexican Border |
---|
Sex, Drugs & The Twinkie Murders |
Paul Krassner |
Loompanics |
Memoirs |
---|
The Naked and the Dead |
Norman Mailer |
Picador USA |
WWII Fiction |
---|
Yoga and the Quest for the True Self[N] |
Stephen Cope |
Bantam |
Yoga and Psychotherapy |
---|
Ferdydurke[N] |
Witold Gombrowicz |
Yale Nota Bene |
Contemporary Fiction |
---|
Shanghai, 1842 - 1949:[N] The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City |
Stella Dong |
Morrow |
Contemporary Chinese History |
---|
War & Politics by Other Means: A Journalist's Memoir* |
Shelby Scates |
University of Washington |
War Memoirs |
---|
The Whores Are Always Smiling |
Carlos Amantea |
[Article] |
Mexico Travel |
---|
[N]To be found under "New Listings" --- also called "Recent Books"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit
Issue #56
www.ralphmag.org/AL/indexAL.html
Early Spring 2001
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
My Alabama Cabin |
Jonathan Raban |
[Reading] |
Memoirs of Alabama Country |
---|
The Soul of a New Machine[B] |
Tracy Kidder |
Back Bay |
Building a New Computer |
---|
The Wildest Dream:[B] The Biography of George Mallory |
Peter and Leni Gillman |
The Mountaineers Books |
Biography, Mountain Climbing |
---|
A Desired Past:[B] A Short History of Same-Sex Love in America |
Leila Rupp |
University of Chicago Press |
Gay Love |
---|
Declare |
Tim Powers |
Morrow |
Fiction --- Espionage |
---|
Desire, Abnegation, and Pop-Tarts |
Mary Rose O'Reilley |
[Reading] |
Contemporary Religious Paradoxes |
---|
The Golden State |
Stephen Knight |
[Poem] |
California |
---|
Illness and the Art of Creative Self-Expression: Stories and Exercises from the Arts for Those with Chronic Illness* |
John Graham-Pole, M. D. |
New Harbinger |
The Patient as Doctor |
---|
To Sleep Less and Dream More |
"Gabriel Garcia Marquez" |
[Reading] |
Mock Farewell Letter |
---|
A History of Celibacy[N]* |
Elizabeth Abbott |
Scribner |
Celibacy |
---|
The Lottery and Other Stories[N] |
Shirley Jackson |
Modern Library |
Anthology |
---|
Fighting Bob La Follette:[N] The Righteous Reformer |
Nancy C. Unger |
University of North Carolina |
Biography |
---|
Ode to Prostate |
Andy Sharpe |
[Poem] |
Prostatinia |
---|
Tarquin's Dreams |
Lawrence Durrell |
[Reading] |
European Writers in the 30s |
---|
Unfinished Message: Selected Works of Toshio Mori |
Patricia Wakida, Editor |
Heyday |
Stories about Japanese Relocation Camps |
[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit
Issue #57
www.ralphmag.org/AM/indexAM.html
Early Mid-Spring 2001
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
Blue Cloud Rides Horses |
Edgar Gabriel Silex |
[Poem] |
Native American Poetry |
---|
Buddha[B] |
Karen Armstrong |
Penguin/Viking |
Religious Theory' Biography |
---|
Judgment at Tokyo:[B] The Japanese War Crimes Trials |
Tim Maga |
University Press of Kentucky |
Post-WWII History |
---|
Blessing the Boats:[B] New and Selected Poems 1988 - 2000 |
Lucille Clifton |
BOA |
Afro-American Poetry |
---|
Beyond Bingo[B] |
Joan Drummond Miller, Carolyn Livingston, Julie Houy |
Creative Arts |
Fiction |
---|
Jet Skis, Progress, and a Minnesota Lake |
Mary Rose O'Reilley |
[Reading] |
Contemporary Religious Paradoxes |
---|
The Happy Years |
Carlos Amantea |
[Article] |
Post-WWII Prep Schools |
---|
Disability Writer
Appears before 40,000 in the Buff |
L. W. Milam |
[Article] |
Disability and Nudity |
---|
Radio Nation: Communication, Popular Culture, and Nationalism in Mexico 1920 - 1950 |
Joy Elizabeth Hayes |
Arizona |
Early History of Mexican Broadcasting |
---|
The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites |
Elizabeth Prettejohn |
Princeton |
19th Century Cultural History |
---|
In the South Bronx of America |
Mel Rosenthal |
Curbstone Press |
Photographic History |
---|
Top Pop Hits |
RALPH Editors |
[List] |
Twelve of RALPH's Most Popular Reviews |
[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit
Issue #58
www.ralphmag.org/AN/indexAN.html
Mid-Spring 2001
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
The Invasion of the Chingles |
Carlos Amantea |
[Article] |
Mexican Travel |
---|
Making Friends with Death<[B] |
Judith L. Lief |
Shambhala |
Meditational Practice and Death |
---|
Long Day's Journey:[B] The Steamboat and Stagecoach Era in the Northern West |
Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes |
University of Washington |
19th Century Frontier Illustrated History |
---|
The Time of Indifference[B] |
Alberto Moravia |
Steerforth Italia |
Fiction |
---|
The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History |
Brian Fagan |
Basic Books |
Meteorological History |
---|
King Carlos II |
Carlos Amantea |
[Article] |
Growing up in Mexico |
---|
Saturn Rings About the Alambra |
C. K. Swann |
[Poem] |
Contemporary Poetry |
---|
Wall-to-Wall America: Post Office Murals in the Great Depression |
Karal Ann Marling |
Minnesota |
WPA Murals |
---|
Muslims and Serbs |
Anthony Loyd |
[Reading] |
War in the Balkans |
---|
My War Gone by, I Miss it So* |
Anthony Loyd |
Penguin |
War in the Balkans |
---|
Without Vodka: Adventures in Wartime Russia* |
Aleksander Topolski |
Steerforth |
Memoirs as Soldier in Russia, WWII |
---|
[N]To be found under "New Listings" --- also called "Recent Books"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit
Issue #59
www.ralphmag.org/AO/indexAO.html
Late Spring 2001
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
We're All Doing Time |
Bo Lozoff |
Human Kindness Foundation |
Meditation and Prison |
---|
When Things Fall Apart:[B] Heart Advice for Difficult Times |
Pema Chödrön |
Shambhala |
Meditation Techniques |
---|
Canyons of the Southwest:[B] A Tour of the Great Canyon Country from Colorado to Northern Mexico |
John Annerino |
University of Arizona |
Travel --- Western Canyons |
---|
My Two Wars[B]* |
Moritz Thomsen |
Steerforth |
WWII Psychology |
---|
Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression |
Nell Casey, Editor |
Morrow |
Anthology |
---|
Wheelchairs and Pig Guts |
Carlos Amantea |
[Article] |
Disability and Travel |
---|
Computers and Machetes |
Carlos Amantea |
[Article] |
Mexico and Giving |
---|
The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd* |
Mary Rose O'Reilley |
Milkweed |
Meditations on Living Buddhism in America |
---|
Tinkering with Eden: A Natural History of Exotics in America |
Kim Todd |
Norton |
Conservation |
---|
The Wife of Bath |
Geoffrey Chaucer |
[Poem] |
Late Medieval English Poetry |
---|
Secondary Commutation |
Aleksander Topolski |
[Reading] |
Life under Stalin |
---|
[N]To be found under "New Listings" --- also called "Recent Books"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit
Issue #60
www.ralphmag.org/AP/indexAP.html
Late Late Spring 2001
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
Beautiful Summer in New Jersey |
B. W. McClellan |
[Article] |
Memoirs of Growing Up |
---|
Bordertown |
Barry Gifford |
Chronicle |
Thoughts on the Mexican-American Border |
---|
The Collected Works of William Howard Taft:[B] Volume I |
David H. Burton, A. E. Cambell, Editors |
Ohio |
Political Memoirs |
---|
The Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest* |
Ellen Meloy |
Arizona |
Thoughts about the American Southwest Desert |
---|
A Red Palm |
Gary Soto |
[Poem] |
Contemporary Latino Poetry |
---|
Between Two Trucks and Heaven |
Carlos Amantea |
[Article] |
Mexican Travel |
---|
The Seven Ages |
Louise Glück |
ECCO/HarperCollins |
Contemporary American Poetry |
---|
The Invisible Enemy: A Natural History of Viruses |
James Meek |
[Reading] |
Viruses |
---|
Japan Goes Dutch |
Murray Sayle |
[Reading] |
Contemporary Japanese Economics |
---|
The Art of War on Land |
David G. Chandler |
Penguin |
War Theory |
[N]To be found under "New Listings" --- also called "Recent Books"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit
Issue #61
www.ralphmag.org/AQ/indexAQ.html
Early Summer 2001
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
The Fairest Fowl:[B] Portraits of Championship Chickens |
Ira Glass |
Chronicle |
Chicken Pix |
---|
She Flies without Wings:[B] How Horses Touch a Woman's Soul |
Mary D. Midkiff |
Delacorte |
Horse Love |
---|
Brothel:[B] Mustang Ranch and Its Women* |
Alexa Albert, MD |
Random House |
Sociological Study of Prostitution |
---|
Underneath a Ball |
Anon |
[Poem] |
Children's Poetry |
---|
Double Down |
Frederick and Steven Barthelme |
Harcourt |
Gambling Addiction |
---|
Bird Watching and Departure |
Carlos Amantea |
[Article] |
Mexico |
---|
My First Harley |
Michael Korda |
[Reading] |
Motorcycles for the Upstate Set |
---|
Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire |
Richard B. Frank |
Penguin |
The Last Days of WWII |
---|
Mars:
Discovering the Secrets of the Red Planet |
Paul Raeburn |
National Geographic Society |
Astrophysics |
---|
The Dead |
Affonso Romano DeSant'Anna |
[Poem] |
Contemporary Poetry |
---|
The Time Machine* |
H. G. Wells |
Broadview |
Traditional Science Fiction |
---|
The Accused: A Personal Story of Imprisonment in Russia |
Alexander Weissberg |
[Reading] |
WWII |
[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit
Issue #62
www.ralphmag.org/AR/indexAR.html
Early Mid-Summer 2001
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
Johann Sebastian Bach and the Aliens |
Ignacio Schwartz |
[Article] |
Sources of Bach's Music |
---|
Bombs as Easter Eggs |
Elsa Morante |
[Reading] |
Contemporary Italian Literature |
---|
Pestilence[B] |
William Owen Roberts |
Seren/Dufour |
Medieval Pestilence |
---|
Sure Seaters:[B] The Emergence of Art House Cinemas |
Barbara Wilinsky |
Minnesota |
"Art" Film Houses |
---|
Healing from the Source:[B] The Science and Lore of Tibetan Medicine |
Yeshi Dhonden |
Snow Lion |
Tibetan Medicine |
---|
Three Poems |
Marcus Cafagña |
[Poems] |
Contemporary American Poetry |
---|
The Original DADA Manifesto |
E. Varèse, Tr. Tzara, Ph. Soupault, Soubeyran, J. Rigaut, G. Ribemont-Dessaignes, M. Ray, F. Picabia, B. Péret, C. Pausaers, R.Hülsenbeeks, J. Evola, M. Ernst, P. Eluard, Suz. Duchamp, M. Duchamp, Crotti, G. Cantarelli, Marg. Buffet, Gab. Buffet, A. Breton, Baargeld, Arp., W. C. Arensberg, L. Aragon |
Manifesto |
Important Artistic Artifact |
---|
Inventions of Farewell: A Book of Elegies |
Sandra M. Gilbert, Editor |
Norton |
Anthology |
---|
History: A Novel* |
Elsa Morante |
Steerforth Italia |
Post-WWII Italain Fiction |
---|
Under the Eye of the Clock |
Christopher Nolan |
Arcade |
Disability Literature |
---|
Down in the Dumps |
Carlos Amantea |
[Article] |
Mexico |
---|
Don't Mind Me, I'm Just One of Jerry's Kids |
L. W. Milam |
[Article] |
Disability and "Jerry's Kids" |
---|
Three Poems |
Christopher Mulrooney |
[Poems] |
Contemporary American Poetry |
---|
Contemporary Folk Art:[N] Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum |
Tom Patterson |
Watson-Guptill/ Smithsonian |
Primitive American Art |
---|
Going on Being:[N] Buddhism and the Way of Change* |
Mark Epstein |
Broadway |
Psychology and Buddhism |
---|
Rebels on the Air:[N] The Death and Life of Great American Radio |
Jesse Walker |
New York University |
Radio Experimentation |
---|
Useppe's Poem |
Elsa Morante |
[Reading] |
Post WWII Italian Fiction |
---|
[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit