[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit
Issue #64
www.ralphmag.org/AT/indexAT.html
Late Mid-Summer 2001
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
Chump Change[B] |
Dan Fante |
Sun Dog |
Modern American Fiction |
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My Lucky Star[B] |
Zdenka Fantolvá |
Herodias |
Growing up in Czechoslovakia |
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Anarchy!:[B] An Anthology of Emma Goldman's Mother Earth |
Peter Glassgold, Editor |
Counterpoint |
Anthology of Anarchism |
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Climate: The Key to Understanding Business Cycles |
Michael Zahorchak |
Tide Press |
Climate and the market |
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Testament of Revolution |
Béla Lipták |
Texas A & M Press |
The Hungarian Revolution |
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Keep Singing: Two Mothers, Two Sons, and their Fight Against Jesse Helms |
Patsy Clarke and Eloise Vaughn |
Alyson |
Gay Rights |
---|
Rape on the Desert |
Andrei Makine |
[Reading] |
Modern Russian Life |
---|
Second Hand[N] |
Michael Zadoorian |
Norton |
Fiction |
---|
The Triumph of the Moon:[N] A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft |
Ronald Hutton |
Oxford |
Witchcraft |
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Farm Motors:[N] Practical Hints for Handy-men |
J. Brownlee Davisson and Leon Wilson Chase |
Lyons |
Antique Engines |
---|
National Private Radio |
L. W. Milam |
[Article] |
Commentary on NPR |
---|
To a Child Four Years Old |
Lola Ridge |
[Poem] |
Traditional American Poetry |
---|
Spring Pastoral |
Elinor Wylie |
[Poem] |
Traditional American Poetry |
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Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill at Yalta |
Brock Clarke |
[Reading] |
Contemporary Fiction |
---|
The Ordinary White Boy |
Brock Clarke |
Harcourt |
Contemporary Fiction |
[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 #65
www.ralphmag.org/AU/indexAU.html
Late Mid-Summer 2001
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
Being Dead |
Jim Crace |
Picador USA |
Contemporary English Fiction |
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Sizzling Chops & Devilish Spins:[B] Ping-Pong and the Art of Staying Alive |
Jerome Charyn |
Four Walls/Eight Windows |
History of Ping-Pong |
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The Biology of Science Fiction Cinema[B] |
Mark C. Glassy |
McFarland |
Science Fiction Films and Real Life |
---|
My Little Blue Dress[B] |
Bruno Maddox |
Viking |
Fiction |
---|
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men* |
James Agee, Walker Evans |
Houghton Mifflin/Mariner |
Reality of the Lives of Share-Croppers |
---|
Memory of France |
Paul Celan |
[Poem] |
Contemporary German Poetry |
---|
FDR and his Enemies[N] |
Albert Fried |
Palgrave/St. Martins |
FDR's Five Greatest Enemies |
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The Music Room[N] |
Dennis McFarland |
Picador USA |
Fiction |
---|
Frank Lloyd Wright Glass[N] |
Doreen Ehrlich |
Courage Books |
Decorative Arts in the Houses of Wright |
---|
The Alphabet Begins with "S" |
Ryszard Kapuscinski |
[Reading] |
Growing up in the Soviet Union |
---|
What I Did Not Tell Anyone |
Kate Gale |
[Poem] |
Contemporary Women's Poetry |
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She Was Only an Optician's Daughter |
L. W. Milam |
[Article] |
American Radio --- Mid-Century |
---|
A Passion to Win |
Sumner Redstone and Peter Knobler |
Simon & Schuster |
Biography, Business |
---|
San Diego: A Pictorial History |
Raymond G. Starr |
Donning |
History of San Diego in Photographs |
---|
Ask No Questions |
Ryszard Kapuscinski |
[Reading] |
Life in Soviet Russia |
---|
The Top Pop Hits |
RALPH Editors |
[List] |
Twelve of the Most Popular Book Reviews |
[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 #66
www.ralphmag.org/AV/indexAV.html
Very Late Summer 2001
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
Body of Knowledge:[B] One Semester of Gross Anatomy, the Gateway to Becoming a Doctor |
Steve Giegerich |
Scribner |
Cadavers and Medical School |
---|
African Journey[B] |
Pete Turner |
Graphis Press |
Contemporary Africa in Photographs |
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Untamed Seas:[B] One Woman's True Story of Shipwreck and Survival |
Deborah Scaling Kiley, Meg Noonan |
Mariner |
Sailing Adventures |
---|
Dreams of Tanks |
Andrei Makine |
[Reading] |
Memoirs of Soviet Russia |
---|
The Men on Wheels |
Andrei Makine |
[Reading] |
Memoirs of Soviet Russia |
---|
Poetry In Motion |
Bart Edelman |
[Poem] |
Contemporary Poetry |
---|
Hunting for Father |
Ignacio Schwartz |
[Article] |
Memories of Growing up in Florida |
---|
The Hurricane |
Ignacio Schwartz |
[Article] |
Memoirs of Growing up in Florida |
---|
Star in the East: Krishnamurti: the Invention of a Messiah |
Roland Vernon |
Palgrave/St. Martins |
Biography |
---|
My Faraway Home[N] |
Mary McKay Maynard |
Lyons |
The Japanese, the Philippines, and WWII |
---|
The Dying Animal[N] |
Philip Roth |
Houghton Mifflin |
Contemporary Fiction |
---|
The Reader's Companion to Military History |
Robert Cowley, Geoffrey Parker, Editors |
Houghton Mifflin |
Essays on Warfare |
---|
The Burden of Time: Photographs from the Highlands of Chiapas |
Marcey Jacobson |
Stanford University |
Photographs of Mexico |
---|
Tariki: Embracing Despair, Discovering Peace |
Hirouki Itsuki |
Kodansha |
Pure Land Buddhism |
---|
[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 #67
www.ralphmag.org/AW/indexAW.html
Very Early Fall 2001
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
Highwire Moon[B] |
Susan Straight |
Houghton Mifflin |
Latina Fiction |
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Sex Tips:[B] From Men Who Ride the Sexual Frontier |
Jo-Anne Baker, Editor |
Fusion |
Sexual Advice |
---|
Rubbish!:[B] The Archaeology of Garbage* |
William Rathje, Cullen Murphy |
Arizona |
Garbology |
---|
Rebuilding the Church of the Novgorod Kremlin |
Ryszard Kapuscinski |
[Reading] |
Stalin's Russia |
---|
On Being Fired Again |
Erin Belieu |
[Poem] |
Contemporary Poetry |
---|
The Philosopher |
Rebecca Wee |
[Poem] |
Contemporary Poetry |
---|
Intervention in the Caribbean: The Dominican Crisis of 1965 |
Gen. Bruce Palmer, Jr. |
University of Kentucky |
American Foreign Policy |
---|
Animal Quackers |
L. W. Milam |
[Article] |
Ducks |
---|
A Visit to the GULAG Magadan |
Ryszard Kapuscinski |
[Reading] |
Post-Stalinist Russia |
---|
Juancito's Wake: Lost Grove Squatters' Camp, Lima, 1985 |
Orlando Ricardo Menes |
[Poem] |
Contemporary Latino Poetry |
---|
Migraine: The Breakthrough Study that Explains What Causes It and How It Can Be Completely Prevented through Diet |
Rodolfo Low |
Holt |
Migraines and Diet |
---|
The Dog Department[N] |
James Thurber |
Harper/Collins |
Thurber's Dogs |
---|
Wildfire: A Reader[N] |
Alianor True, Editor |
Island Press |
Smokejumpers |
---|
What I Think I Did:[N] A Season of Survival in Two Acts |
Larry Woiwode |
Basic Books |
Memoirs |
---|
An Old Wife's Tale: My Seven Decades in Love and War |
Midge Decter |
Regan/Harper/Collins |
Memoirs |
---|
Memoirs of the Eenie-Weenies |
Dr. Phage |
[Article] |
Memoirs of the 60s |
---|
Masquerade* |
Tivadar Soros |
Arcade Publishing |
Budapest 1944 - 1945 |
---|
Under the Skin* |
Michael Faber |
Harcourt |
Science-Fiction |
[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 #68
www.ralphmag.org/AX/indexAX.html
Early Fall, 2001
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
The Evening Crowd at Kimser's:[B] A Gay Life in the 1940s* |
Ricardo J. Brown |
Minnesota |
Gay Life Pre-Stonewall |
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Neville Chamberlain and Appeasement[B] |
Robert J. Caputi |
Susquehanna |
Biography |
---|
The Autobiography of Abbie Hoffman[B]* |
Abbie Hoffman |
Four Walls/Eight Windows |
Autobiography |
---|
California Crazy: Roadside Vernacular Architecture |
J. Heimann |
Chronicle |
Unusual Architecture |
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My Friend, You Are Legally Blind: A Writer's Struggle with Macular Degeneration |
Charles Champlin |
John Daniel & Co. |
Going Blind |
---|
I Finally Figured Out About Dying --- (And I Wanted To Tell You Before It Was Too Late) |
Robert J. Fretwell |
[Poem] |
Contemporary Poetry |
---|
Of Beetles and Angels: A True Story of the American Dream |
Mawi Asgedon |
Megadee |
Assimilation in America |
---|
On Being Psychoanalyzed (At the Hyatt Regency Bar) |
Carlos Amantea |
[Reading] |
Contemporary Psychotherapy |
---|
Florida Beaches:[N] The Only Guide to the Best Places to Eat, Stay, and Play on Every Beach in the Sunshine State |
Parke Puterbaugh and Alan Bisbort |
Foghorn Press |
Travel |
---|
Worshiping the Ancestors:[N] Chinese Commemorative Portraits |
Jan Stewart, Evelyn S. Rawski, Editors |
Smithsonian/Stanford University Press |
Chinese Scroll Painting |
---|
America's Children[N] |
James Thackara |
The Overlook Press
|
The Manhattan Project |
---|
A Gaudy Spree: Literary Hollywood When the West Was Fun |
Samuel Marx |
Franklin Watts |
Hollywood History |
---|
There Wasn't Any Tooth Fairy in Havana |
Virgil Suárez |
[Reading] |
Dentistry and Growing up |
---|
[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 #69
www.ralphmag.org/AY/indexAY.html
Mid-Fall, 2001
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
Nineteen Wilful Men |
Carlos Amantea |
[Article] |
11 September 2001 |
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The Practical Guide to Aging: What Everyone Needs to Know |
Christine K. Cassel, Editor |
New York University |
Aging Guide |
---|
The Same Sea* |
Amos Oz |
Harcourt |
Israeli Fiction |
---|
Eruptions |
Henry J. Morro |
[Poem] |
Contemporary Poetry |
---|
The Exact Location of the Soul:[B] New and Selected Essays |
Richard Selzer |
Picador USA |
Medical Essays |
---|
The Buddha Book[B] |
Abraham Rodriguez |
Picador USA |
Contemporary Ghetto Fiction |
---|
The Cabin:[B] Inspiration for the Classic American Getaway |
Dale Mulfinger and Susan E. Davis |
Taunton |
How-to-do-it |
---|
2.4 Man-Meals a Day |
William Rathje and Cullen Murphy |
[Reading] |
Garbology |
---|
Shlugen Kapores |
Michael A. Ingall |
[Article] |
Jewish Tradition |
---|
Marilyn Monroe Is Dead |
Henry J. Morro |
[Poem] |
Contemporary Poetry |
---|
Quitting the Nairobi Trio:[N] A Memoir |
Jim Knipfel |
Berkley Books |
Mental Health |
---|
Gates to Buddhist Practice:[N] Essential Teachings of a Tibetan Master |
Chagdud Tulku |
Padma |
Buddhism |
---|
Mountain City[N] |
Gregory Martin |
North Point Press |
Small Town American Life |
---|
Menstrual Modesty |
Katha Pollitt |
[Reading] |
The Menstrual Crisis |
---|
Truer Than True Romance: Classic Love Comics Retold |
Jeanne Martinet |
Watson-Guptill |
Romance Comics Reworked |
---|
The First World War* |
Gerard J. De Groot |
Palgrave |
History of WWI |
---|
[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 #70
www.ralphmag.org/AZ/indexAZ.html
Late Fall, 2001
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
Banning Bin Laden: A Proposal |
Carlos Amantea |
[Article] |
Censorship |
---|
Nomads of the Desert City:[B] Personal Stories from Citizens of the Streets |
Barbara Seyda |
Arizona |
Interviews with Street People |
---|
Silent Extras[B] |
Arnon Grunberg |
St. Martin's |
Fiction |
---|
The Places That Scare You:[B] A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times |
Pema Chödrön |
Shambhala |
Buddhistic Exhortations |
---|
The Editors' Picks |
RALPH Editors |
[List] |
20 Recent Books of Merit |
---|
Gangrene and Glory: Medical Care During the American Civil War |
Frank R. Freemon | Illinois |
Medical Care and the Civil War |
Chacun a Son gout |
Jon Gallant |
[Article] |
Gout |
---|
Karl Marx[N]* |
Francis Wheen |
Norton |
Biography |
---|
Notes on Extinction |
Janice Deaner |
Dutton |
Fiction |
---|
Dubi Dombrov Tries to Express |
Amos Oz |
[Reading] |
Character Sketch |
---|
Spring |
Danyèl Simido |
[Poem |
Haitian Creole Poetry |
|
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The Essence of Tibetan Buddhism[N] |
Lama Thubten Yeshe |
Lywa |
Buddhism |
---|
The Algeria Hotel: France, Memory, and the Second World War |
Adam Nossiter |
Houghton Mifflin |
Memories of Vichy France |
---|
If You Want |
Nousnous Lenous Surprice |
[Poem] |
Haitian Creole Poetry |
---|
[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 #71
www.ralphmag.org/BA/indexBAhtml
Early Winter, 2001
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Subject |
Michael Bader |
L. W. Milam |
[Article] |
Memorial |
---|
The Tattered Cloak and Other Stories* |
Nina Berberova |
New Directions Classic |
Russian Short Stories |
---|
Six Wars at a Time |
Howard and Audrey Shaff |
The Center for Western Studies |
Biography of Gutzon Borglum |
---|
The Essential Galbraith[B] |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
Mariner |
Essays |
---|
Maverick in Madagascar[B] |
Mark Eveleigh |
Lonely Planet |
Travel |
---|
The Big Lie:[B] Hale Boggs, Lucille May Grace, and Leander Perez in 1951 |
Garry Boulard |
Pelican |
Political Biography |
---|
The Cave Club |
Geoffrey Brock |
[Poem] |
Contemporary Poetry |
---|
In Search of Deep Throat: The Greatest Political Mystery of Our Time |
Leonard Garment |
Basic |
Memoirs of the Nixon Years |
---|
Groupuscules, or the New Old Left |
Dr. Phage |
[Article] |
Political Schisms |
---|
God and the Evolving Universe:[N] The Next Step in Personal Evolution |
James Redfield, Michael Murphy, Sylvia Timbers |
Tarcher/Putnam |
New Age |
---|
Book Business:[N] Publishing Past, Present and Future |
Jason Epstein |
Norton |
Memoirs |
---|
Selected Poems of Robert Penn Warren |
John Burt, Editor |
Louisiana State University Press |
Anthology |
---|
The Tattered Cloak |
Nina Berberova |
[Reading] |
Russian Emigre Fiction |
---|
Three from the Teachers & Writers Collaborative |
Christopher Edgar, Gary Lenhart, Editors |
[Poetry] |
Contemporary Poetry |
---|
[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