| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Twelve Big Hits | The Editors of RALPH | [List] | Twelve Reviews, Articles, and Essays that Continue to Receive the Most Hits over the Years at RALPH |
| The Singing Life Of Birds The Art and Science Of Listening to Birdsong |
Donald Kroodsma | Houghton Mifflin | Study of Physiological Aspects and Aesthetics of Bird Song (with CD) |
| When All the World Was Young[B]* A Memoir |
Barbara Holland | Bloomsbury | Reminiscences of Growing Up in 1940s and 1950s America |
| In Search of Maya Sea Traders[B] |
Heather McKillop | Texas A&M | Archaeological Study of Mayan Relics on the Islands of Belize |
| The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro[B] |
Antonio Tabucchi | New Directions | Murder Mystery Set in 1990s Portugal |
| Britten and Barber Their Lives and Their Music |
Daniel Felsenfeld | Amadeus Press | Critical Introduction to Benjamin Britten and Samuel Barber |
| My 'Dam Life Three Years In Holland |
Sean Condon | Lonely Planet | The Dark Side of Trying to Live (and Work) in a First World Country |
| Joe McCarthy My Bloody Life Isaac Bashevis Singer My Attorney Bernie Blossom Dearie |
Bob Bruce, Christian Tovar Angel Martinez, Larry Bolef |
[Letters] | Correspondence with RALPH about Previous Reviews |
| Manet and Monet and Marx and Freud | Timothy J. Clark | [Poem] | Poetry on Painters and their Mothers |
| New York Changing Revisiting Bernice Abbott's New York |
Douglas Levere |
Princeton Architectural Press/ Museum of the City of New York |
Photos of Changes in New York City Since 1937 - 1939 |
| The Seven Dials Mystery |
Agatha Christie
Read by Emilia Fox |
Audio Partners | Reading of the Early Mystery by Dame Christie |
| Suicide Information For Teens |
Joyce Brennfleck Shannon, Editor |
Omnigraphics | Guide for Teenagers Contemplating Suicide |
| Pigs Hunting Truffles | Barbara Holland | [Reading] | An Imaginative Essay from Holland's Early Writing Years |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Animals You Eat | X. J. Kennedy | [Poem] |
A Poem for Children (About Eating Animals) |
| The Vanished Hands[B] | Robert Wilson | Harcourt | Murder Mystery Set in Seville |
| My Life in CIA[B]: A Chronicle of 1973 | Harry Matthews | Dalkey Archive | Story of Being a Fake CIA Agent in Paris |
| The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter[B] | Carson McCullers | Recorded Books Unabridged | The 1940 Classic Novel Read by Cherry Jones |
|
Folk Furniture of Canada's Doukhobors, Hutterites, Mennonites, And Ukrainians* |
John Fleming, Michael Rowan | University of Alberta Press | Simple Furniture from Immigrants to Western Canada |
| Special Use Vehicles: An Illustrated History of Unconventional Cars And Trucks Worldwide |
George W. Green | McFarland |
Photographs with Text of Weird Cars and Trucks |
| Night Soldiers* | Alan Furst | Recorded Books Unabridged |
A Novel about WWII and the Secret Police, Read by George Guidall |
| Maquis and Makhorka | Alan Furst | [Reading] | The French Resistance in WWII |
| Childhood in America, 1945 | Barbara Holland | [Reading] | Life in Innocent Times |
| Zen Koans Gangbanging Leonard Garment Cutting Tools |
John Tarrant, Selina Dezele@aol.com, Snapsearch.com |
[Letters] | Correspondence with RALPH about Previous Reviews |
| Edweard Muybridge Horse Photo September Song |
Louise Power Peter Blind |
[Letters] | More Correspondence with RALPH about Previous Reviews |
| Mao Zedong[G] | Jonathan Spence | Viking/Penguin | Brief History of Chairman Mao |
| Stealing a Little Bit of Beethoven |
Carson McCullers | [Reading] |
The Fantasies of a Teenager in 1930s Georgia |
| Impressions of New York: Prints from the New-York Historical Society |
Marilyn Symmes | Princeton Architectural Press |
Over 100 Lithographs, Cuts, and Drawings about New York City |
| The Starmaker | Olaf Stapleton | Wesleyan University Press | An Early Science Fiction Novel |
| Talking Big | John Bricuth | [Poem] | Talking in Verse (About Big Things) |
| Words Brushed by Music: Twenty-Five Years Of the Johns Hopkins Poetry Series |
John T. Irwin, Editor |
Johns Hopkins | Poems by Twenty Poets |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject | Matchbox Labels:[B] Over 2,000 Elegant Examples from All Over the World | Jane Smith | Firefly | Match-Box Covers Illustrated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coal:[B] A Human History |
Barbara Freese Shelly Frasier, Reader |
Tantor Unabridged Audiobook | A Very Extensive History of Coal |
| The Maze[B] | Panos Karnezis | Picador | A Fictional Account of the War in Anatolia, 1922 |
| Event Cities 3:[B] Concept vs. Context vs. Content | Bernard Tschumi | MIT | 640 Page Discourse on the Architect |
| Recollecting Freud[B] | Isador Sadger | Wisconsin | An Expose from One of the Early Followers of Freud |
| Call It Sleep*[B] | Henry Roth | Picador | A Reprint of the Classic Immigrant Novel |
| The Slow Breath of Stone:[B] A Romanesque Love Story | Pamela Petro | Fourth Estate | A Modern Study of the Romanesque Churches in Southern France |
| Documents of the Cornado Expedition, 1539 - 1542[B] | Richard and Shirley Cushing Flint, Editors | Southern Methodist University Press | Documents of the 1539 - 1542 Coronado Expedition into Present-Day America |
| Falling for Reality[B] | Michael A. Zangardi | Publish America | A Novel on the Imaginary Meanies |
| Flea Circus | Antony Dunn | [Poetry] | Contemporary English Poetry |
| Modern Maid | Christine Hamm | [Poetry] | Contemporary English Poetry |
| Kaiser Sunset | Phil Ehrens | [Article] | Contemporary Clinical Nightmare |
| Another Day of Life[G] | Ryszard Kapuscinski | Harcourt Brace | A Visit to the Angolan Civil War, 1975 |
| Kinsey:* Sex the Measure of All Things | Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy | Indiana University Press | The Compleat Life of the Famous Sexologist |
| The Writers of RALPH, The Problems of the World, Spelling Jackson Pollock | Carolyn Creedon, Tina Louise Weber, arzur@bellsouth.net | [Letters] | Communication with RALPH about Previous Articles and Reviews |
| Livestock Hotels: America's Historic Stockyards | J'Nell L. Pate | TCU Press | Stockyards Revealed |
| Reading Lolita in Tehran | Azar Nafisi, Read by Livette Lecat | Recorded Books Unabridged | Reading of the Contemporary Novel of Life in Tehran |
| Roads to Forgotten Texas |
Joyce Pounds Hardy (Poems) Tommy LaVergne (Photographs) |
Texas Review Press | Sentimental View of the Old Texas |
| The Oozing Cyst Blues | Milton Erickson, Jay Haley |
[Reading] | A Look at Psychological Solutions for Self-Inflicted Pain |
| Italian masturbazione | Peter Finch | [Poem] | The Pros and Cons of Self-Abuse |
| The Manor and the Estate* | Isaac Bashevis Singer |
Terrace Books/ University of Wisconsin |
Novel about Late 19th Century Jewish Life in Poland |
| Hannah Coulter | Wendell Berry | Shoemaker & Hoard | Novel about 1940s Farm Life in America |
| The Word-Consuming Thing |
Charles Hopper Webb | [Reading] | Words and Feelings Realized |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject | Snowstruck: In the Grip of Avalanches | Jill Fredston | Harcourt | Terrible Avalanches the Author Has Known |
|---|---|---|---|
| Midnight at the Dragon Café[B] | Judy Fong Bates | Counterpoint | Love, Loss and Incest in a Chinese Restaurant |
| Fats Waller:[B] The Cheerful Little Earful | Alyn Shipton | Continuum | The Life and Songs of the Jazz Pianist |
| Slave:[B] My True Story | Mende Nazer | Public Affairs | Growing up in Nubia, Enslavement in Khartoum and London |
| Caliban's Shore:* The Wreck of the Grosvenor And the Strange Fate of Her Survivors |
Stephen Taylor | Norton | The Mesmerizing Tale of a Ship-wreck from 200 Years Ago |
| Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering | Henry Petroski | Knopf | Curiosities of an Engineering Life |
| "Fifteen Stars" | The Editors of RALPH | [List] | Fifteen Highly Rated Books from the Past Two Years |
| More Ghost Towns of Texas | T. Lindsay Baker | Oklahoma | Pictures and Histories of Texas Towns Now Gone |
| Ansel Adams, Seth Glickenhouse, U. S. Post Office Murals | Barbara E. Weems, Richard B. Jordan, Tracy Porter | [Letters] | Correspondence with RALPH about Previous Reviews and Articles |
| Television and Murder, My Bloody Life, the Maoris | Katherine Senko, Robert Stassen, Carolyn Creedon | [More Letters] | Further Correspondence with RALPH about Previous Reviews and Articles |
| Mrs. Caliban[G] | Rachel Ingalls | Harvard Common | Novel about a Visit from the Friendly Green Giant |
| Paul Strand Photographs | Anne M. Lyden, Editor | J. Paul Getty Museum | Over Forty Strand Photos (with Copy) |
| Edward Weston Photographs | Brett Abbott, Editor | J. Paul Getty Museum | Over Forty Weston Photos (with Copy) |
| Making Love to Lovely Lila (Both of Us Aged 78 or so) | Isaac Wrangel | [Poem] | Love and the Ancients |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject | The Gods Drink Whiskey:*[B] Stumbling Towards Enlightenment in the Land of the Tattered Buddhas | Stephen T. Asma | Harper San Francisco |
Study of Life and Buddhism in Contemporary Cambodia |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Room for the Summer:[B] Adventure, Misadventure, and Seduction in the Mines of the Coeur d'Alene | Fritz Wolff | Oklahoma | Life in the Silver, Lead, and Zinc Mines of Idaho --- 1950s |
| My Bloody Life:
The Making of a Latino King |
Reymundo Sanchez | Chicago Review Press | Autobiography of a Gang-Banger in the Streets of Chicago |
| Long Time Coming:[G] Photographic Portrait Of America: 1935-1943 |
Michael Lesy, Editor | Norton |
400 Photographs of the Depression From the Farm Security Administration |
| Good Faith |
Jane Smiley Richard Poe, Reader |
Recorded Books Unabridged | Novel of Real-Estate Sharks in the 1980s |
| Griffin & Sabine An Extraordinary Correspondence |
Nick Bantock | Chronicle Books | Tenth Anniversary Re-Issue of the Classic Epistolary Novel |
| At Home with the Rich The Cathedral at Cuernavaca |
George F. Kennan | [Reading] | Kennan's Memories of a Visit to Mexico |
| Left Time | Dr. Phage | [Article] |
Thoughts on the Demonstrations At the Recent G8 Meeting |
| Madame Spivy A Fly for the Prosecution The Other RALPH |
Michael Pickering, Barbara K. Ray Andrew U |
[Letters] | Correspondence with RALPH about Previous Reviews and Articles |
| Richie Havens My Bloody Life |
"A friend of the original group" Carmen Cruz |
[More Letters] | More Correspondence with RALPH about Previous Reviews and Articles |
| Molvanîa* | Santo Cilauro, et. al. | Overlook Press | Travel Book about the Obscure Middle South Eastern European Country |
| Washington Gone Crazy: Senator Pat McCarran and The Great American Communist Hunt |
Michael J. Ybarra | Steerforth | History of the Anti-Communist Senator from Nevada |
| Weegee: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum |
Judith Keller, Editor | J. Paul Getty | The Scandal Photographer Examined |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject | African Sculpture |
Warren Robbins Richard Walters, Translator |
Schiffer | Guide to African Sculpture in the United States |
|---|---|---|---|
| Testy Mail | The Editors of RALPH | [List] | Over a Dozen Letters that Have Come into RALPH Concerning Our Reviews |
| Secret Lives of Common Birds[B] Enjoying Bird Behavior Through the Seasons |
Marie Read | Houghton Mifflin | Pictures of Common Birds |
| A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man*[B] |
James Joyce Jim Norton, Reader |
Naxos | Reading on CDs of the Classic Bildungsroman |
| Waking Up America The Possibility of an Earthy Enlightenment Amidst All the Excess, the Stress, The Pleasure and the Pain |
Ken Taub | White Cloud | Ersatz Buddhism for America |
| Being Right Here* A Dzogchen Treasure Text of Nuden Dorje entitled The Mirror of Clear Meaning |
James Low | Snow Lion | 40 Verses of the Original Buddhist Teachings |
| Making Irish Stew | Jerome K. Jerome | [Reading] | Thoughts on Throwing Everything into the Pot |
| The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England* |
Antonia Fraser Wanda McCaddon, Reader |
Audio Editions | A Thousand or So Years of English Royalty |
| Weegee Carolyn Kizer Anorexia |
PARADOX398@aol.com abullitt@olympus.net anna@papadopoulos.com |
[Letters] | Correspondence with RALPH about Previous Reviews |
| RALPH and Girls, Parties, Cars, &ct. |
Michael Pickering | [More Letters] | Additional Correspondence with RALPH about Previous Reviews |
| James Low Dzogchen My Bloody Life |
Ruth Rickard glen bisono Isaiah Mendoz |
[Even More Letters] | Further Correspondence about Reviews (Or Lack of Them) |
| Just Enough Liebling Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer |
A. J. Liebling | North Point Press | Essays by the New Yorker Writer |
| How to Make English Tea (From the Thames) |
Jerome K. Jerome | [Reading] | Selection from Three Men in a Boat |
| The 9th Amendment of the U. S. Constitution | Robin Harris | [Article] | Thoughts on "Strict Constuctivists" |
| A Funny Thing Happened On My Way to Old Age Life Changes After 50 |
Stanley C. Baldwin | IVP | Thoughts on Ageing by the Christian Writer |
| Pétain:
How the Hero of France Became a Convicted Traitor and Changed the Course of History |
Charles Williams | Palgrave | The Life of the Ill-Fated President of Vichy France |
| Skin Deep[G] Tattoos, the Disappearing West, Very Bad Men, and My Deep Love for them All |
Karol Griffin | Harcourt | The Lives and Loves of a Tattoo Artist |
| Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) |
Jerome K. Jerome Martin Jarvis, Reader |
Naxos AudioBooks | The Classic Story of Boating up the Thames |
| Wounded | Percival Everett | Greywolf | Novel about a Black Cowpoke |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject | Out of the Blue[B] A Journey Through The World's Oceans |
Paul Horsman | MIT Press | Color Photographs and Text from the Various Oceans |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small Island[B] | Andrea Levy | Picador | Novel about Black Jamaicans in England during WWII |
| Firekeeper*[B] Selected Poems |
Pattiann Rogers | Milkweed | Illusionist Poems from the 21st Century |
| The Persistence of Memory[B] | Tony Eprile | Norton | A Novel about Jewish Life in South Africa before and during the Truth Commission |
| Lost Christianities | Bart D. Ehrman | [Reading] | A Discussion of Which Christianity Won Our During the First and Second Centuries |
| Lost Christianities* The Battles for Scriptures and The Faiths We Never Knew |
Bart D. Ehrman | Oxford | Extensive Examination of Documents from 50 AD - 250 AD Concerning the Origins of Modern Christianity |
| The Year All the Clowns Were Executed |
Pattiann Rogers | [Reading] | Contemporary American Poetry |
| The Worst Hard Time The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl |
Timothy Egan | Houghton Mifflin | Life in the Dust Bowl 1930 - 1938 |
| Fly-ku! To Swat or Not to Swat |
Robin D. Gill | Paraverse Press | Elegant Disquisition on Flies and the Most Traditional Japanese Poetry |
| A House at the Edge of Tears |
Vénus Khoury-Ghata | Graywolf | Going Mad in Beirut during the Civil War |
| All the Time In the World[G] |
Hugo Williams |
Akadine --- Common Reader |
Travel Book from Forty Years Ago |
| Two American Blacks And a Jamaican in WWII |
Andrea Levy | [Reading] | American vs. Jamaican Blacks in England, 1941 - 1945 |
| Angry Letters to RALPH My Bloody Life Disability |
Don Mussell Craig Caudill Marie M Collazo |
[Letters] |
Response to Previous Letters and Reviews in RALPH |
| Contemporary American Pottery Contemporary American Poetry Benjamin Britten and the Nuns of Paoli |
[More Letters] |
Francisco Huneeus Barbara J Gill Kevin A. Hluch |
More Responses to Previous Letters and Reviews in RALPH |
| The Benefits of Chronic Pain |
the Rewards of PDarlene Cohen | [Interview] | A Discussion of the Rewards of Pain |
| Poet Power[G[ The Complete Guide to Getting Your Poetry Published |
Thomas A. Williams | Sentient | Self-Publishing |
| The Secret of M. Dulong |
Colette Inez | Wisconsin | True Story of an Orphan Brought to the U. S. before WWII |
| Luke Swank Modernist Photographer |
Howard Bossen, Editor | University of Pittsburgh Press | Selected Examples (with Commentary) of the 20s and 30s Photographer |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject | Out of Your Mind* Essential Listening from the Alan Watts Audio Workshop |
Alan Watts | Sounds True | Twelve Discs of Thoughts of the Eastern Philosopher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Astronomical Enigmas Life on Mars, The Star of Bethlehem & Other Milky Way Mysteries |
Mark Kidger | Johns Hopkins | Textbook on Natural and Unnatural Phenomena |
| Goodbye Columbus and Five Short Stories[B] |
Philip Roth | Library of America | Early Works of the Famous Author |
| From Baghdad to Brooklyn[B] Growing Up in a Jewish-Arabic Family In Midcentury America |
Jack Marshall | Coffee House Press | Bildungsroman of a Sephardic/Arabic Youth |
| Cry Ruth Robin Gill Haiku Latino Kings |
Dan Malone Nancy Turbeville Robin Gill |
[Letters] | Correspondence with RALPH about Previous Articles and Reviews |
| Waking Up in America Black Lips, Black Skin |
NaKem213@aol.com Ken Taub |
[Letters] | More Correspondence with RALPH about Previous Articles and Reviews |
| How to Become a Saint Nathanael West Albert Camus Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
dhaerryhn@yahoo.com Carlos Amantea |
[Letters] | Even More Correspondence about Earlier Reviews and Letters |
| Master of the Sea* | José Sarney | Aliform | Novel about Lives and Fantasies of the Fishermen of Northern Brazil |
| Daring Steps Toward Fearlessness The Three Vehicles of Buddhism |
Ringu Tulku | Snow Lion | A Study of the Three Main Schools of Buddhism |
| State Houses: America's 50 State Houses |
Susan Thrane | Boston Mills Press | An Illustrated Overview of American State Capitols |
| The RALPH Top Hits 2005 | The Editors of RALPH | [List] |
Fifteen Articles, Readings, Reviews, Letters and Poems that Continue to Receive the Most Hits |
| The Psychotherapist is Always Late Chloé's Triangles |
Gaëtan Brulotte David Tucker, Translator |
[Reading] | Classic Reading on the Paradox of Psychotherapy |
| Two Vestal Virgins | James Joyce | [Reading] | Two Dublin Women (with Prunes) Atop Nelson's Pillar |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject | Vendetta:
FBI Hero Melvin Purvis's War Against Crime, and J. Edgar Hoover's War Against Him |
Alston Purvis | Public Affairs | Biography of the FBI Agent Who Shot Dillinger |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Blast | Alexander Berkman | AK Press | Reproduction of Articles from the Anarchistic Magazine of 1916 - 1917 |
| Making a Better World Public Housing, the Red Scare, and The Direction of Modern Los Angeles |
Don Parson | Minnesota |
An Exhaustive Survey of Public Housing in L. A. and How Anti-Communism Gummed It All Up |
| Consuming Visions[B]: Mass Culture and the Lourdes Shrine | Suzanne K. Kaufman | Cornell University Press | How Lourdes Developed as an Early Example of the Consumer Culture |
| True Happiness[B]: Cultivating a Life of Unconditional Joy and the Power to Benefit Others |
Pema Chödrön | Sounds True | CDs recorded during a retreat at Gampo Abbey monastery in Nova Scotia |
| The Coming Race[B] | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | Wesleyan | Science Fiction from 1871 |
| Knoxville Tennessee --- 1915 |
James Agee | [Reading] | Early 20th Century Nostalgia |
| Middle School Children and My Bloody Life |
Lolita Lark | [Article] |
The Effect of Realist Literature On Junior High School Children |
| Mockingbirds Birdsongs and the Latino Kings |
Thomas O'Rourke mijo_shorty_57@yahoo.com |
[Letters] |
Correspondence with RALPH about Previous Reviews and Articles |
| State Capitols A Geezer in Paradise |
jane x anderson | [More Letters] |
Correspondence with RALPH about Previous Reviews and Articles |
| Prison Ashram Project Letters from Prisoners The Black Dog of Melancholia |
Bo Lozoff Kerrie Eyers |
[Even More Letters] | More Correspondence with RALPH about Previous Reviews and Articles |
| The Mordida | Carlos Amantea | [Article] | Mexico and "The Poor Man's Lawyer" |
| Bertha Alyce[G]: Mother exPosed |
Gay Block | University of New Mexico Press |
A Revealing Biography of Mother/ Daughter Angst |
| Spanish Places | B. E. Marsh | Syren | Living in 1960s Spain |
| Terrors of the Table: The Curious History of Nutrition |
Walter Gratzer | Oxford |
A Slightly Skewed History of Food and Eating |
| The Memory Of Running* |
Ron McLarty | Viking |
Novel about Fat, Bicycles, and A Mad Sister |