| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
Conquering Gotham A Gilded Age Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels |
Jill Jonnes | (Viking) | The Massive Work of Connecting Manhattan to the South and West |
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Out of Your Mind[G] Essential Listening from the Alan Watts Audio Workshop |
Alan Watts | (Sounds True) |
A Selection of Tapes Broadcast by The 1950s Expert on Eastern Mysticism |
| Backwoods The Bees Are Inside |
Rebecca Foust | [Poetry] | Two Poems of the Reality of Appalachian Folk Life |
| Cutting the Stone | Abraham Verghese | (Alfred A. Knopf) |
On Being a Doctor in Ethiopia --- and New York City |
| DADA Alan Furst Dynamite Joseph McCarthy Bipolar Forceps Franka Rubi Bra Tattoo Machines |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| The Pen / O. Henry Prize Stories 2009 |
Laura Furman, Editor |
(Anchor Books) | Twenty Short Stories |
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Looking for the Evental (In an Iraqi Field Hospital) |
Robert Earle | [Reading] | French Philosophy in Baghdad, 2004 |
| Retreat A Story of 1918 |
Charles R. Benstead | (The University of South Carolina Press) |
The Historical Novel of an Anglican Padre on the Front Lines in 1918 |
| Songs of Love, Moon & Wind Poems from the Chinese |
Kenneth Rexroth, Translator |
(New Directions) | Eighty Classic Chinese Poems |
| Legend of A Suicide |
David Vann | (University of Massachusetts Press) |
A Boy and His Father Moored on an Alaskan Island |
| Sex Work and the City The Social Geography of Health and Safety in Tijuana, Mexico |
Yasmina Katsulis | (University of Texas) |
251 Case Studies of Sex Workers on the Border |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
Top Hits |
The Editors | [List] | The Most Popular Articles, Reviews, and Readings on RALPH |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Attic, the House | William Matthews | [Poem] | Poem about Memories |
| Birdsong by the Seasons* A Year of Listening to Birds |
Donald Kroodsma | (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) | An Enthusiastic Compilation of Forty-eight Birdsongs --- Complete with CDs |
| Lanterns on the Prairie The Blackfeet Photographs of Walter McClintock |
Steven L. Grafe, Editor | (University of Oklahoma) | Ninety Original Plates of the Blackfeet Indians from the 1900s |
| Jacob Bronowski and "Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby?" |
Jacob Bronowski | [Article] |
The Eminent Scientist's Memories of Visiting Nagasaki in Fall 1945 |
| Travels with My Chicken[G] A Man and His Companion Take to the Road |
Martin Gurdon | (Lyons Press) |
Traveling About England with a Chicken (and a Book About Traveling with Chickens) |
| Flying Across America The Airline Passenger Experience |
Daniel L. Ruse | (University of Oklahoma Press) | A Pictorial History of Air Travel Across America |
| Guanajuato, Mexico | Everett Gee Jackson | [Reading] | Celebrations and Colors in an Old Colonial City |
| Category 5 The 1935 Labor Day Hurricane |
Thomas Neil Knowles | (University Press of Florida) | Memories of the Storm that Took almost 500 Lives |
| Nights in the Pink Motel* An American Strategist's Pursuit of Peace in Iraq |
Robert Earle | (Naval Institute Press) | Working for John Negroponte in Iraq, in 2004 |
| With an Iron Pen Twenty Years of Hebrew Protest Poetry |
Tal Nitzan, Rachel Tzvia Back, Editors | (Excelsior / State University of New York) |
Eighty-eight Protest Poems from Jewish Writers |
| "Song of Praise" | Tamir Greenberg | [Poem] | Modern Hebrew Protest Poetry |
| Cosmetic Opportunities at RALPH Carl Jung Laying on Arms The Love of Two Queens |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| "Psychic Healers" | Kathy Evans | [Poem] |
Contemporary Poetry About Psychotherapy |
| Samuel Johnson And the Life of Reading |
Robert DeMaria, Jr. | (Johns Hopkins) |
The Readings of the Great English Writer and Essayist |
| My Secret Delight | Mary F. K. Fisher | [Reading] | Overlooking the Whores Eating Slices of Carmelized Tangerines |
| Don't Leave Hungry Fifty Years of Southern Poetry Review |
James Smith, Editor | (University of Arkansas Press) | Over Two Hundred Poems from the 1950s to Now |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Problems with Cataract Operations H. G. Wells The Time Machine Pets Love Letters from Melissa Letters We Never Finished Reading |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| All-American Poem* | Matthew Dickman | (American Poetry Review) |
Over Thirty Narrative Poems About American and America (and Penguins) |
| Paris Spleen Little Poems in Prose |
Charles Baudelaire | (Wesleyan) |
A Collection of Poems about Sordid, Occasionally Beautiful, Paris |
| Circumcision[G] A History of the World's Most Controversial Surgery |
David L. Gollaher | (Basic Books) |
The Awful Truth About the First Cut |
|
Idle Thoughts on Jerome K. Jerome A 150th Anniversary Celebration |
Jeremy Nichols, Editor | (The Jerome K. Jerome Society) |
Essays, Biography and Readings from the Author of Three Men in a Boat |
| Death by Leisure A Cautionary Tale |
Chris Ayres | (Grove Press) |
The Worst of L.A. from the Pen of a Fictional Newsman |
| Naked | Sybil Lockhart | [Reading] | The Unsettling Sight of a Mother with Alzheimer's |
| The Headpots of Northeast Arkansas and Southern Pemiscot County, Missouri |
James F. Cherry | (University of Arkansas) |
An Intensive Study of
Strange Artifacts from Missouri and Arkansas |
| Beyond Forgetting Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer's Disease |
Holly J. Hughes, Editor | (Kent State University Press) |
A Hundred Writers on Their Memories of the Debilitating Disease |
|
Harker's One Room Schoolhouses Visions of an Iowa Icon |
Michael P. Harker Photographer |
(University of Iowa Press) |
Almost 100 Photographs of Old Schools in Iowa |
| The Disabled: Such Interesting People |
Hugh Gregory Gallagher | [Article] |
Sudden Changes in the Disabled Experience |
| "Confessions of a teenage drama queen" |
D. A. Powell | [Poem] | Modern American Poetry |
| Living in the Face of Death The Tibetan Tradition |
Glenn H. Mullen | (Snow Lion) |
Readings on the Tibetan Philosophy of Death |
| Vanishing* | Candida Lawrence | (Unbridled Books) |
Seventeen Essays and Stories on the Art of Disappearing |
| "The World Is Too Huge to Grasp" | Matthew Dickman | [Poem] | Contemporary American Poetry |
| A Conversation With an Old Man |
Lama Gungtang Konchok Dronme | [Reading] | The Tibetan View of Getting Old |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waco Vladimir Nabokov The American Eagle Jerome K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat Love Letters from the Bird Girl Letters We Never Finished Reading |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| Airborne[G] The New Dance Photography of Lois Greenfield |
Designed by William A. Ewing | (Chronicle Books) | In-the-Air Photographs of Dancers |
| The Evening Light | Anna Akhmatova | [Poem] | Early Twentieth Century Love Poem |
| Letter to D A Love Story |
André Gorz | (Polity) | A Love Letter to Gorz's Wife of Fifty-Eight Years |
| Bonk The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex |
Mary Roach | (Norton) | An Extended Study of You-Know-What |
| Tics, Botox Shots, and A Broken Heart |
Carlos Amantea | [Article] |
Some Thoughts about Doctors, Botox, and Growing Ancient |
| Busted Life Inside the Great Mortgage Meltdown |
Edmund L. Andrews | (Norton) |
A Times Reporter Takes on America's Financial Plight (and His Own Mortgage) |
| Les Cloches | Guillaume Apollinaire | [Poem] | Love and the Village |
| Homer & Langley A Novel |
E. L. Doctorow | (Random House) |
A New Take on the Two Brothers Who Died in Their Castle of Junk in New York City |
| Crow Planet* Essential Wisdom from The Urban Wilderness |
Lyanda Lynn Haupt | (Little, Brown) |
The Smart Black Birds Who Will Probably Outlive Us |
| Deaf American Poetry An Anthology |
John Lee Clark, Editor | (Gallaudet University) | A Hundred Poems from Two Hundred Years |
| Ghosts* | César Aira | (New Directions) | Strange Doings in an Argentine Condo (Under Construction) |
| Soul Survivor The Reincarnation of a World War II Fighter Pilot |
Bruce and Andrea Leininger | (Grand Central) |
A Two-Year-Old Wakes Up with Nightmares from Sixty-Five Years Ago |
| Rimbaud The Double Life of a Rebel |
Edmund White | (Atlas & Co.) | Poetic Histrionics from the Depths of 1860s Montmartre |
| The Suicide Index Putting My Father's Death in Order |
Joan Wickersham | (Mariner) |
A Disquisition on the Suffering of Survivors of Suicide |
| Grilled Cheese Sandwiches (And Existentialism) |
Frank McCourt | [Reading] | An Immigrant Student at NYU |
| Taking Care Of the Very Old |
Candida Lawrence | [Reading] | Her Father and Mother in their Eighties |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michelangelo Cottage Water Systems Mutation of the Microcondrya Genetic Order Fashion Belts Water Closets Letters We Never Finished Reading |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| Thirteen Stars | The Editors of RALPH | [List] | The Best Books from The First Half of 2009 |
| Codes of Misconduct Prostitution in Colonial Bombay |
Ashwini Tambe | (University of Minnesota) | A study of prostitution in Bombay a hundred years ago |
| Desert and Forest The Exploration of Abyssinian Danaskil |
L. M. Nesbitt | [Reading] | Across the Danakils by Foot and by Donkey |
| Eleven Minutes Late A Train Journey to the Soul of Britain |
Matthew Engel | (Macmillan) |
In Love (and en Route) With the Trains of England |
| The Waitress Was New | Dominique Fabre | (Archipelago Books) |
The Day-to-Day of a French Café Waiter |
| Beg, Borrow, Steal A Writer's Life |
Michael Greenberg | (Other Books) | A Collection of Essays from the TLS |
|
Madness A Bipolar Life |
Marya Hornbacher | (Mariner) |
Going Bonkers (Repeatedly) --- by the Author of Wasted |
| Does She Have a Plan? | Marya Hornbacher | [Reading] |
A Typical Visit to the ER by the Author of the Above |
| First Stop in the New World Mexico City, the Capital of the 21st Century |
David Lida | (Riverhead Books) |
A Jaded Picture of Modern-Day Mexico City |
| In Other Rooms, Other Wonders |
Daniyal Mueenuddin | (Norton) | Eight Stories from Contemporary Pakistan |
| The People's Pugilist: Carl Sandburg |
Matthias Regan | (Charles H. Kerr) |
Essays from Sandburg's Radical Chicago Days |
| Chronicle of the Time of Troubles |
Dr. Phage | [Article] |
The Result of Three Successive Nights of Watching Film Epics about Russia in the 1600s. |
| Conquest of the Useless* Reflections from the Making of "Fitzcarraldo" |
Werner Herzog | (Ecco) | Going into the Peruvian Rain Forest to Make a Back-Breaking Movie about Moving a Boat |
| Why They Do It | Cheryl Savageau | [Poem] | Poem about Certain Habits |
| The American People In World War II[G] |
David M. Kennedy | (Oxford) |
A Lively, Startling Reprise of America in the Second World War |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dada Sarbola The Dung Beetle Life from Many Sides The Ice Cream Cart Godwill Letters We Never Finished Reading |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| At the Ends of the Earth[G] A History of the Polar Regions |
Kieran Mulvaney | (Island/Shearwater) |
Exploration of those Far-Off Lands As Named by Aristotle |
| Art Over 2,500 Works from Cave to Contemporary |
Foreword by Ross King | (DK) | Dali, Picasso, Soutine, Cave Painting, the Renaissance, et al. |
| Calvin Littlejohn Portrait of a Community In Black and White |
Bob Ray Sanders | (TCU) | The Ft. Worth Photographer Remembered |
| Delta Flight 659 | Denise Duhamel | [Poem] | A Tribute to Sean Penn |
| Children in Stone | e. e. cummings | [Poem] | "children singing in stone" |
| The Elephant Keeper | Christopher Nicholson | (Morrow) |
A Boy and his Elephant in 18th Century England |
| The Unlikely Disciple A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University |
Kevin Roose | (Grand Central) |
The Thrill of Going from Brown U. to Liberty U. --- for a Semester |
| The Forsaken An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia |
Tim Tzouliadis | (Penguin) |
The Fate of Thousands of Idealistic Americans in Depression-Era Soviet Russia |
| The Beauty (and Wonder) (And Fatality) of Motorcycles |
Paul Nickel | [Article] | On Being Told that a Friend's Son (Aged Thirty-Nine) Is Going to Buy His First Motorcycle |
| Notes from No Man's Land American Essays |
Eula Biss | (Graywolf Press) |
Essays on Racial Prejudice, the Legacy of Slavery, Gringos in Mexico, and Fears about Fear |
| Nobody Move A Novel |
Denis Johnson | (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) | Murder and Mayhem in Bakersfield |
| Stumbling Toward Enlightenment |
Geri Larkin | (Celestial Arts) |
A New Edition of the Classic Book of Zen for the Masses |
| The Twin* | Gerbrand Bakker | (Archipelago Books) | A Strange and Wonderful Novel about Twins and Love |
| The Ulitskaya- Khodorkovsky Correspondence |
Lyudmila Ulitskaya | [Reading] |
Correspondence between Lyudmila Ulitskaya and Mikhail Khodorkovsky |
| Water, Inc. Notes for a new campaign, WATER |
Mei Chin | [Reading] | Deciding if Water is Good for You (or Not) |
| Water* | John Knechtel, Editor | (MIT Press) | Various Eccentric Essays on Aitch-Two-Owe |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ram Dass' Still Here Pictures of Christ Pet Supplies Miss Josephine Letters We Never Finished Reading: Immunity Agent |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
The Why of Whys |
The Editors | [List] | The Most Popular Paradoxes-of-the-Month |
| The Ice Palace That Melted Away:[G] How Good Design Enhances Our Lives |
Bill Stumpf | (Minnesota) |
Creative Planning for Cities (and People, and Food) |
| Ninety-Six-Year-Old Estonian | Jim Harrison | [Poem] | A Flight of Poetic Fantasy |
| Ichetucknee: Sacred Waters | Steven Earl | (University Press of Florida) |
The Life (and Death) of a River in Photographs |
| In Search of Small Gods | Jim Harrison | (Copper Canyon) |
Poems of Love and Passion and Bare Bottoms on Television |
| Fried Frogs and Burnt-Out Telex Machines |
Werner Herzog | [Reading] | Notes Kept by the Director of Fitzcarraldo |
| The Humbling | Philip Roth | (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) |
Another Rare Tale of the Very Old in Love |
| Ginko Tree[G] | Tom Crawford | Poems | Love in Korea |
| My Little War | Louis Paul Boon | (Dalkey Archive) |
Snippets of Recollections of WWII in Belgium |
| Sarbola[G] | John Beowulf | (Trafford Publishing) | Passion over the Petri Plates |
| Essays | Wallace Shawn | (Haymarket Books) | Fifteen Narratives on "Reality" and on the "Dream-World." |
| Siamese | Stig Sæterbakken | (Dalkey Archive) | An Old Couple Enmeshed in Each Other |
| All That Work and Still No Boys* |
Kathryn Ma | (University of Iowa Press) |
Ten Stories about the Chinese-American Experience |
| Early Stone Houses of Kentucky |
Carolyn Murray-Wooley | (University Press of Kentucky) | Pictures (and Histories) of 455 Stone Houses |
| Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things |
Laurence Gonzales | (Norton) |
Fractals, Entropy, "the Heat Ladder," Odysseus and the Mexican Revolution |
| Vice Versa | Dr. Phage | [Article] | Adventures in Used-Car Land |
| The Last Resort A Memoir of Zimbabwe |
Douglas Rogers | (Harmony) |
Survival of a Post-Colonial Family in Former Rhodesia |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boo Napoleon San Diego Profane Pix Warmly Huggs Ice Cream Carts Non-Stick Bipolar Forceps and Bi-Clams |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| The Day We Found the Universe | Marcia Bartusiak | (Pantheon) | The Heroes (and Unheroes) of the World of Physics, Astronomy, and Astrophysics |
| Dorothea Lange A Life Beyond Limits |
Linda Gordon | (W. W. Norton) |
The Life and Times of the Master Photographer at The New Deal Farm Security Administration |
| Bonsai | Alejandro Zambra | (Melville House) | A Postmodernist Novel of Love (Sort Of) |
| Some Different Kinds Of Obamanation |
Dr. Phage | [Article] | The Search for the New (or Next) Obama |
| 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 |
The Editors | [Reviews] |
Fifteen Great Reviews Resurrected for Our Special 15th Year Anniversary Issue |
| 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 | The Editors | [Articles] |
Ten Great Articles Brought Back to Life for Our Special 15th Year Anniversary Issue |
| 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) |
The Editors | [Poems] |
Ten Wonderful Poems Remembered as a Tribute to Our 15th Anniversary |
| A Red-Haired Valkyrie | Philip Roth | [Reading] | A Woman Caught Lurking at His Window |
| Flat Mate | Carolyn Bird | [Poem] | A Shadowy Figure in Her Apartment |