RALPH: The Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy, and the Humanities --- Table of Contents

**Issue #101**
*www.ralphmag.org/CE/indexCE.html*
Late Mid-Summer 2003
Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
In the Cage [B]	Henry James	Hesperus	The Life of a Salesgirl in 19th Centuury England
The Gooseboy* [B]	A. L. Barker	Virago	Contemporary English Novel
Sleeping with the Dictionary[B]	Harryette Mullen	California	Contemporary American Poetry
The Night Torn with Mad Footsteps [G]	Charles Bukowski	Black Sparrow	Contemporary American Poetry
Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929	Maury Klein	Oxford	The Federal Reserve and the Financial Debacle of the 20s
Zombie Hat	Harryette Mullen	[Poem]	Contemporary American Poetry
Fun at the Democratic Convention, 1968	Paul Krassner	Reading	A Comic View of 60s Politics
Paul McCarthy	BOMB	[Interview]	Interview with the Controversial American Artist
Magic Mushrooms and Other Highs: [N] From Toad Slime to Ecstasy	Paul Krassner, Editor	paulkrassner.com	Seventy-Seven Stories about Getting High
The Dust of Empire[N] The Race for Mastery in the Asian Heartland*	Karl E. Meyer	Public Affairs	Brief History of the Eleven Countries of the Asian "Heartland"
Hitler Came for Niemoeller: [N] The Nazi War against Religion	Leo Stein	Pelican	The Imprisonment of Martin Niemoeller
Pieces of Payne	Albert Goldbarth	Graywolf Press	Contemporary American Fiction
The Queen Is in the Countinghouse	The Estate of Leslie L. Seamans	[Poem]	Contemporary American Poetry
Down & Out: The Life and Death	Joseph Hart, Edwin Hirschoff, Photographer	Minnesota	Urban Renewal in Minneapolis --- 1950s & 60s
The Paris Review and RALPH	Hugh Gallagher	[Letters]	Comparison Between the Two Magazines

**Issue #102**
*www.ralphmag.org/CF/indexCF.html*
Late Summer 2003
Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
Off the Cuffs:[B] Poetry by and about the Police	Jackie Sheeler, Editor	Soft Skull Press	Poetry about Jails, Streets, Police, Prisoners, Criminals and Woe
Pieces of Intelligence:[B] The Existential Poetry of Donald H. Rumsfeld	Hart Seely, Editor	Free Press	Poetry from Inside the Beltway
Train Wrecks:[B] A Pictorial History of Accidents on the Main Line	Robert C. Reed	Schiffer	100 Photographs and Drawings of American Train Wrecks
Kingdom of Shadows[B]	Alan Furst	Victor Gollancz	Spys and Stuff in Pre-WWII Europe
Hunger	John Weston	[Reading]	Young Love in the Arizona Desert
The Art of War on Land[G]	David G. Chandler	Penguin	Tactics and Strategy of War through the Ages
William Burroughs and Toad Slime	Paul Krassner	[Letter]	Concerning Paul Krassner's Newest Book
The Selected Poems of Howard Nemerov*	Daniel Anderson, Editor	Swallow/Ohio	Poems by the American Poet
"Landscape with Figures" "Near the Old People's Home'	Howard Nemerov	[Poems]	Two Poems by the Howard Nemerov
Dining at the Lineman's Shack[N]	John Weston	Arizona	Tales of Growing up (and Cooking) in the Arizona Desert
City on Fire[N]: The Forgotten Disaster that Devastated a Town and Ignited a Landmark Legal Battle	Bill Minutaglio	HarperCollins	The Destruction of a Texas Port City in 1947
A Version of Love[N]	Millicent Dillon	Norton	Contemporary American Novel on Love with one's Psychiatrist
Laurel, Mississippi 1967	Charles Marsh	[Reading]	Growing up in the Segregated South
So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading	Sara Nelson	Putnam	A Book about Reading Books
Wuthering Heights*	Emily Brontë Donada Peters, Reader	Books on Tape	Taped Reading of the 1847 Classic

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
[G]Great Reviews of the Past
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

**Issue #103**
*www.ralphmag.org/CG/indexCG.html*
Very Early Fall 2003
Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
The Crucifixion in American Art[B]	Robert Henkes	McFarland	Examples of Paintings of Crucifixions, 1700s to the Present
Harker's Barns:[B] Visions of an American Icon	Michael P. Harker; Jim Heynen, Text	Iowa	Photographs of Old Barns of Iowa
FOUNDation[B]: Transforming Found Objects into Digital Assemblage	Spencer Drate	Watson-Guptill	Ads, Collages, Post Cards, Disc Covers from Found Art
What Was True[B]: The Photographs and Notebooks of William Gedney	Margaret Sartor, Geoff Dyer, Editors	Lyndhurst/Norton	Black-and-White Photographs of India, Hippies, Kentucky, South Dakota and Brooklyn by the Late Photographer
Between Street and Mirror[B]: The Drawings of James Ensor	Catherine de Zegher	The Drawing Center/University of Minnesota	Ensor Drawings with Appropriate Comments and Interviews
The Lost King of France: Revolution, Revenge, and the Search for Louis XVII	Deborah Cadbury	Fourth Estate	Tale of the Two Hundred Year Search of the Last of the pre-19th Century French Kings
Gettysburg Battlefield: The Definitive Illustrated History	David J. Eicher, Editor	Chronicle Books	Text by Thirteen Historians on the Famous Battle with Appropriate Photographs
A Gaudy Spree[G]: Literary Hollywood When the West Was Fun	Samuel Marx	Franklin Watts	One Man's History of Hollywood
So Many Books, So Little Time	Sara Nelson	[Letters]	Comments on Our Review of the Author's Newest Title
Getting Mother's Body*	Suzan-Lori Parks	Fourth Estate	Novel Set in West Texas, 1963
George Washington[N]: A Collection	W. B. Allen, Editor	Liberty Fund	The Papers of George Washington
Mexifornia[N]: A State of Becoming	Victor David Hanson	Encounter Books	An Exegesis on "Illegal" Immigrants
Bloody Mary[N]	Sharon Solwitz	Sarabande	Contemporary American Novel
Voices from the Trail of Tears[N]	Vicki Rozema, Editor	Blair	First-Hand Reports of the Forced Evacuation of Native Americans
The Plot to Save the World	L. W. Milam	[Article]	Memories of Building the First Community Radio Stations
World War I: A New Kind of War	Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau Annette Becker	[Reading]	A New View on the Violence of the War of 1914 - 1918

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
[G]Great Reviews of the Past
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

**Issue #104**
*www.ralphmag.org/CH/indexCH.html*
Early Fall 2003
Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
Radios: The Golden Age	Philip Collins	Chronicle	Memories of American Radio of the 1940s
Ants at Work[G]: How an Insect Society Is Organized	Deborah Gordon	The Free Press	A Study of Ant Life in the Sonoran Desert
Autopsy Before the Cameras	F. Gonzalez-Cruzzi	[Reading]	On an Autopsy Recorded for BBC-TV
Glory in a Camel's Eye[B]: Trekking through the Moroccan Sahara	Jeffrey Tayler	Houghton Mifflin	A Forty Day Trek in the Wadi Sasi
Swagbelly[B]	D. J. Levien	Plume/Penguin	Contemporary American Fiction
The Sexual Teachings of the Jade Dragon[B]: Taoist Methods for Male Sexual Realization	Hsi Lai	Destiny Books	Erotology from the Mysterious East
The Roots of Buddhist Psychology*	Jack Kornfield	Sounds True	A Twelve Part Introduction to the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path
Twenty-Two Books on Disability	L. W. Milam	[List]	Some of the Most Important Readings on Disability
Empire:* The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power	Niall Ferguson	Basic Books	A Comprehensive Look at the British Empire
Franz Kafka in Riga	Harry Matthews	[Reading]	Contemporary American Fiction
Poole's Paradise and Bob Poole	Fred Goldrup	[Letter]	Memories of Radio of the 40s and 50s
"Badlands" and "Cartalk: A Love Poem"	Jack McCarthy	[Poems]	Contemporary American Poetry
Lizards:[N] A Natural History of Some Uncommon Creatures, Extraordinary Chameleons, Iguanas, Geckos, and More	David Badger, Text; John Netherton, Photos	Voyager Press	100 Color Photographs of Lizards
The Mountains Know Arizona:[N] Images of the Land and Stories of Its People	Rose Houk, Text; Michael Collier, Photographs	Arizona Highways	Color Photographs of Various Arizona Mountains
Passing Trains:[N] The Changing Face of Canadian Railroading	Greg McDonnell	Boston Mills	Photographs over the Years of Canadian Steam and Diesel Railroads
Alice in Wonderland[N]	Lewis Carroll; Ralph Steadman, Illustrator	Firefly	The Famous Children's Story with 21st Century Drawings
The Desert Cries:[N] A Season of Flash Floods in a Dry Land	Craig Childs	Arizona Highways	The Famous Naturalist on Desert Flooding
Platform for California Governor	L. Milam, J. Gallant	[Platform]	Suggested Program for the 135 Candidates for Governor
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers	Mary Roach	Norton	Experimentation with Cadavers Described

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
[G]Great Reviews of the Past
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

**Issue #105**
*www.ralphmag.org/CI/indexCI.html*
Mid-Fall 2003
Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
Learning to Fall: [G] The Blessings of an Imperfect Life	Philip Simmons	Bantam	Living (and Dying) with ALS
The Ceramics of China:[B] 5000 B.C. to 1912 A.D.	Gloria and Robert Mascarelli	Schiffer Publishing	Advice on Collecting Ancient Chinese Pottery
Turn-of-the-Century Photographs from San Diego, Texas[B]	Sara R. Massey and Ana Carolina Castillo Crimm	University of Texas	Photographs from West Texas, 1898 - 1910
The Complete Pebble Mosaic Handbook[B]	Maggie Howarth	Firefly	How to Build Terraces and Walkways with Found Stones
At Work: [B] The Art of California Labor	Mark Dean Johnson	CHS/Heyday	Posters, Murals, Paintings, Leaflets and Photographs from California's Worker's Movements
New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry	Eliot Weinberger, Editor	New Directions	English Translations from 1000 Years of Chinese Poetry
Delivery	Toi Derricotte	[Poem]	Giving Birth
The California Governor's Race The Devil's Cup and RALPH's Copyright Violation	Shelby Scates, Stewart Allen, Ethan Meleg	[Letters]	Three Letters to RALPH
The Madonnas of President Street[N]	John Sandman	Xlibris	Novel about New York City's Working Mothers and Troublesome Daughters
Live a Little, Laugh a Lot[N]	Barb Bancroft	Wellworth Publishing	A Thousand Improbable Facts
What We Lost[N]	Dale Peck	Houghton Mifflin)	Novel about Growing Up Poor
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary	Simon Winchester	Oxford	The Complete History of the OED
A Round-Heeled Woman:* My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance	Jane Juska	Villard	Adventures in Seeking an Older Lover
Riddle: Post Op	Alicia Suskin Ostriker	[Poem]	After the Operation
Ticks, Blackflies, and God's Other Punishments	Philip Simmons	[Reading]	Living in the Summer in the Great Northeast
The Last Trip of the Time Machine	H. G. Wells	[Reading]	The Final Passage into the Future
Young Love	Laurie Lee	[Reading]	Young Love in the Hayfields of 1900

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
[G]Great Reviews of the Past
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

**Issue #106**
*www.ralphmag.org/CJ/indexCJ.html*
Late Fall 2003
Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
The Poems of Dylan Thomas[N]	Daniel Jones, Editor	New Directions	20th Century English Poetry
Rancho Costa Nada:[N] The Dirt Cheap Desert Homestead	Phil Garlington	Loompanics	Building a Home for Practically Nothing
Old School[N]	Tobias Wolff	Knopf	Novel about Prep School and Writers
The Flight of The Garuda:[N] The Dzogchen Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism	Keith Dowman, Translator	Wisdom	18th Century Buddhist Poetry with Commmentary
Skin Deep:* Tattoos, the Disappearing West, Very Bad Men, and My Deep Love for them All	Karol Griffin	Harcourt	Autobiography about Tattooing and Raw Love
Bertha Alyce:* Mother exPosed	Gay Block	University of New Mexico Press	Tale of a True and Unusual Mother/Daughter Relationship
Churches of Minnesota: An Illustrated Guide	Alan K. Lathrop	University of Minnesota Press	Photographs and Architectural Discussion of Minnesota Churches, Old and New
The Lake of Dead Languages[G]	Carol Goodman	Ballantine	Novel about an American Girl's College
Avedon at Work in the American West[B]	Laura Wilson	University of Texas Press	Memoirs of an Associate of Avedon during his 1979 - 1983 Assignment in the West
The Sea Around Us:[B] An Illustrated Commemorative Edition	Rachel Carson	Oxford	The Famous Naturalist's Exploration of the Sea
Just So Stories[B]	Rudyard Kipling, Geoffrey Palmer, Reader	Naxos Audio Books	Taped Reading of the Famous Children's Stories
"Being a Good Catholic," "Gracie on the Roof" and Terrorism	Nathanael West and R.W. Johnson	[Letters]	Letters to RALPH and the LRB
Zionism and the Shoah	Eric Hobsbawm	[Reading]	Meditation on the Israeli State
Five for Lunch	[Reading]	Curzio Malaparte	On Eating Human Hands for Lunch
A Glass Full of Girls	Robert Kelly	[Reading]	Meditation on a House where the Fireplace is Full of Fur

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
[G]Great Reviews of the Past
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

**Issue #107**
*www.ralphmag.org/CK/indexCK.html*
Early Winter 2003 - 2004
Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
Clarence Thomas:[N] Fighter with Words	David R. Collins	Pelican	Biography of Supreme Court Justice
The Firefly Encyclopedia of Birds[N]	Christopher Perrins, Editor	Firefly	Unabridged Listing of Birds of the World
How I Earned the Ruptured Duck: [N] From Brooklyn to Berchtesgaden in World War II	Leo Bogart	Texas A&M	Personal History of a Soldier in WWII
Native State	Tony Cohan	Broadway	Personal History of Jazz Musician
My Last Sigh*	Luis Buñuel	University of Minnesota Press	Autobiography of the Surrealist Filmmaker
Love After War: Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam	Wayne Karlin Ho Anh Thai Editors	Curbstone	Short Stories from Viet-Nam
Eternal Treblinka: [G] Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust	Charles Patterson	Lantern Books	Animals in the United States Treated Like Jews
Great Art Glass Lamps: [B] Tiffany, Duffner & Kimberly, Pairpoint and Handel	Martin M. May	Schiffer	Examples of Early "Tiffany" Lamps
Thirteen Months To Go: [B] The Creation of the Empire State Building	Geraldine B. Wagner	Thunder Bay Press	Illustrated History of the Building of theEmpire State Building
The Encyclopedia of Trains and Locomotives: [B] The Comprehensive Guide to Over 900 Steam, Diesel, and Electric Locomotives from 1825 to the Present Day	David Ross, Editor	Thunder Bay Press	Comprehensive Illustrated Study of Trains of the Last 200 Years
Samuel Beckett, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gay's Mom's Boobs, and RALPH and Books about Sex	B. J. Walters, Cye J., David Dies, Lois Overbeck, Angela Palmer	Letters to RALPH	Comments on Previous Articles
The California Department of Motor Vehicles' War Against Geezers	L. W. Milam	[Article]	Elaborate Description of California DMV and Its New Program of Elder Abuse
Breast vs. Bottle	Edward Tenner	[Reading]	Some Thoughts on Breast-Feeding vs. Bottle Feeding of Infants
A Tonight's Lecture: The Effects of Head Wounds On Foot Soldiers, A Case Study; The McPoem	Ronald Wallace	[Poetry]	Contemporary American Poetry

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
[G]Great Reviews of the Past
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

**Issue #108**
*www.ralphmag.org/CL/indexCL.html*
Mid-Winter 2003 - 2004
Title	Author	Publisher	Subject
Twenty-Five All-Time Hits From the Pages of RALPH	The Editors	[List]	Twentry-Five Articles, Poems, Readings and Reviews at RALPH that Consistently Get the Most Hits
Popular Music From Vittula*	Mikael Niemi	Seven Stories Press	Contemporary Autobiography from Northern Sweden
The Wright Space	Spencer Hart	Thunder Bay Press	Examples of the Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright
How To Grow World Class Giant Pumpkins	Don Langevin	AnneDawn Publishing/Norton	Giant Pumpkin Growing
The Outlaw Sea	William Langewiesche	North Point	Thoughts on Anarchy at Sea
The Eden Express: [G] A Memoir of Insanity	Mark Vonnegut	Seven Stories Press	Autogbiography: Going Crazy in the 60s
The Record Setting Trips:[B] By Auto from Coast to Coast, 1909 - 1916	Curt McConnell	Stanford University Press	Eight Record Breaking Auto Trips
Yvor Winters:[B] Selected Poems	Thom Gunn, Editor	The Library of America	Collection of Winters' Poems
The Russian Moment In World History[B]	Marshall T. Poe	Princeton University Press	An Unusual Take on the History of the "Rus"
Anorexia, Dylan Thomas Lawsuit, and Ethics in Public Relations	Katie H., R. Whipple Yabba Dabba, C J Elphick	[Letters]	Comments on Recent Articles and Reviews
The World Trade Center	William Bryk	[Reading]	Thoughts on the Unloveable Aspects of the WTC
Our One- Fingered Teacher	Mikael Niemi	[Reading]	Bicycle Riding in Northern Sweden
She Was My Night (Era Mi Noche)	Homero Aridijis	[Poems]	Contemporary Latino Poetry

[N]To be found under "New Listings"
[B]To be found under "Brief Reviews"
[G]Great Reviews of the Past
*Indicates a book that we found of especial merit

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