| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edward Lear Poems Art from Abrams La Cuenca de Los Angeles Ethel Merston A Light that Reaches to Heaven Bible Banners Letters We Never Finished Reading Two Days to Leave |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| Bonobo Handshake |
Vanessa Woods | (Gotham) |
Going Native with Mankind's Nearest (Perhaps) Relative |
| Little Boy Blues A Memoir |
Malcolm Jones | (Pantheon) | Life with Mother in the North Carolina/ South Carolina Borderlands |
| Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words[G] A Writer's Guide to Getting it Right |
Bill Bryson | (Broadway Books) | The English Language Seen as a Magpie |
| Chroma A Book of Color |
Derek Jarman | (Minnesota) |
The Primary Colors (and Assorted Others) against a Background of Blue |
| Flawless* Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History |
Scott Andrew Selby, Greg Campbell |
(Union Square) |
Invading a Diamond Center Safe in Antwerp and almost Getting away with it |
| Bad Nature* Or, With Elvis in Mexico |
Javier Marías | (New Directions) |
Sordid Adventures in Acapulco and Mexico City |
| Hudson River Panorama A Passage through Time |
Tammis K. Groft, et. al. | (Albany Institute of History and Art) |
Albany, the Erie Canal, and Hudson River History |
| Madre and I A Memoir of Our Immigrant Lives |
Guillermo Reyes | (Wisconsin) |
Succeeding in America Despite Being Young, Gay and Bashful |
| Oscar Wilde In America The Interviews |
Matthew Hofer, Gary Scharnhorst Editors |
(University of Illinois) |
Forty-Eight Newspaper Interviews with the Prophet of Aestheticism |
| Beaning Mr. Kopex Spilling Seed |
Pete Dexter | [Reading] |
Two Riotous Sequences from Spooner |
| U. S. Grant American Hero, American Myth |
Joan Waugh | (North Carolina) |
A Worshipful Account of the Last Years of the Soldier and President |
| "When I Die" "Cremation" |
Carol Chou, Pia Aliperti |
(Hanging Loose Press) |
Two Poems from the Anthology, When We Were Countries |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Napoleon The Hudson River Rom LcO'Feer Touch Me All Over Dog Product Business Letters We Never Finished Reading Polish Speakers Only Fowl Play |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| Great Poetry Books |
The Editors | [List] |
Twelve Poetry Books Our Editors Have Found to Be Especially Fetching |
| Dining on the B&O Recipes and Sidelights From a Bygone Age |
Thomas J. Greco | (Johns Hopkins) | Classic Food Served in the Classic Dining Cars of the Classic B&O Railroad |
| The Bug-Club |
Douglas Cruickshank | [Article] |
Life in Uganda with Grasshoppers and Other Edible Bugs |
| Brilliant The Evolution of Artificial Light |
Jane Brox | (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) | The History of Artificial Light |
| Eskimos and the Long Winter Darkness |
Jane Brox | [Reading] | The Dark Nights of Arctic Winters |
| Climate Refugees |
Collectif Argos | (MIT) |
The Real Facts of those Who Are Living Day-to-Day with the Effects of Global Warming |
| Ground Black People |
The Guardian | [Reading] |
A Misprint that Caused Thousands To Cough (Fitfully) |
| Let's Get Free A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice |
Paul Butler | (The New Press) |
A Former Prosecutor Looks at Our Crowded Jails |
| The Long Song* |
Andrea Levy | (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) |
A Novel of Slavery on a Sugar Plantation in Jamaica |
| Travels in the Reich, 1933 - 1945 Foreign Authors in Germany |
Oliver Lubrich, Editor | (University of Chicago) |
Excerpts from the Writings of Three Dozen Travellers in Germany During the Nazi Years |
| 1989 and The Cloud of Unknowing |
Jon Gallant | [Article] |
A Commentary on Victor Sebestyen's Revolution 1989 |
| I Curse the River of Time |
Per Petterson | (Graywolf Press) |
Love for Mother Rebuffed There in Oslo and Jutland |
| Borges at the Northside Rotary |
David Kirby | [Poem] |
Trying to Get the Babbitts to Love the Epic |
| Best Ever Travel Tips |
Tom Hall, Editor | (Lonely Planet) |
A Handy Guide on Surviving in the World Out There |
| America's Famous and Historic Trees[G] From George Washington's Tulip Poplar to Elvis Presley's Pin Oak |
Jeffrey G. Meyer | (Houghton Mifflin) |
An Expert on the Great and Famous Trees of America |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gutzon Borglum Les Belle-lettres en RALPH Browning in Jamaica I Am Miss Nicy Selling Sheers Letters We Never Finished Reading A Little Quell |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| Twelve Stars | The Editors | [List] |
Twelve Books from the Last Year that Our Editors Found to Be of Special Merit |
| Bright Wings An Illustrated Anthology of Poems about Birds |
Billy Collins, Editor | (Columbia University Press) |
A Hundred or So Classic And Not So Classic Poems about Our Avian Brothers |
| Crispbread from Stockholm | Theo Findahl | [Reading] |
Hunting for Food, in Berlin, In April, 1945 |
| A Portrait of Lost Tibet[G] |
Rosemary Jones Tung | (Snow Lion) |
A Not-So-Lovely Picture of Tibet from a Hundred Years Past |
| Fame* A Novel in Nine Episodes |
Daniel Kehlmann | (Pantheon) |
Nine Improbable, Wonderful Stories About Famous (or Lost, or Dying) People |
| Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto |
Maile Chapman | (Graywolf) |
The Three Weird Sisters Are Back --- in a Finnish Nursing Home |
| Five Ways to Kill a Man | André Breton | [Poem] |
The Dada Master's Least Dadaistic Production |
| Frying the Flag | Lawrence Durrell | [Reading] |
The Story of an Improbable Newspaper In an Improbable Land |
| The Alternative Kitchen Garden: An A-Z |
Emma Cooper | (Permanent Press) |
Going throuogh the Garden, Literally, A to Z |
| Over Autumn Rooftops* | Hai Zi (Zha Haisheng) | (Host) | Contemporary Poetry from China |
| Twelve Days in Persia* Across the Mountains with the Bakhtiari Tribe |
Vita Sackville-West | (Tauris Parke) |
A Classic Post-Victorian Traveller Somewhere in the Midst of Dusty Iran |
| Retail (and Tribal) Politics | Dr. Phage | [Article] |
Commentary on a Recent Article by Alex de Waal from the LRB |
| The Illuminated Landscape A Sierra Nevada Anthology |
Gary Noy, Rick Heide Editors | (Sierra College/Heyday) |
Poems, Articles, Stories and Journalism about the Wonders of Eastern California |
| The Best Spiritual Writing 2010 |
Philip Zaleski, Editor | (Penguin) |
Poems and Tales about Modern-Day Spiritualism, Freely Defined |
| The Swan at Edgewater Park |
Ruth Schwartz | [Poem] |
A Verse about a "Slightly Grubby" Bird in Cleveland OH |
| What Is God? | Jacob Needleman | (J. P. Tarcher/Penguin) | A Somewhat Mystic (But Quick) Picture of the Divine |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psychotherapy or Family Therapy: Jung, Freud and Milton Erickson Wokking the Dog Slugs and Christopher Hitchens Cryptic Letters: Young Footballers Dropping a Massage Letters We Never Finished Reading Yours Fairly Fried |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| Atlas Of the World's Strangest Animals |
Paula Hammond | (Marshall Cavendish Reference) | Fifty Weird (and Not-So-Weird) Beesties |
| Packing for Mars The Curious Science of Life in the Void |
Mary Roach | (Norton) |
A Summary of All the Repugnant Things We Will Have to Do Before We Arrive on Mars |
| No Place Like Home Notes from a Western Life |
Linda M. Hasselstrom | (University of Nevada) |
Twenty Five Essays on the Vanishing West and the Horrors of Living in a Big Small City |
| One Page at a Time On a Writing Life |
Pat Carr | (Texas Tech University Press) |
Name-Dropping and the American Literary Trail (or Trial) |
| Hitch 22: A Memoir |
Christopher Hitchens | (Twelve, Hachette Book Group) | The Life of a Man of Letters --- One Who Shocked All by Becoming a Bush-Baby |
| Where Did You Go?" "Out." "What Did You Do?" "Nothing." |
Robert Paul Smith | (Norton) |
The Classic 1950s Tale Of Urban Life |
| Gay Bar The Fabulous, True Story of A Daring Woman and Her Boys In the 1950s |
Helen P. Branson Will Fellows |
(Wisconsin) |
Stories by the Owner of An Early Gay Bar in Los Angeles (Before There Were "Gay Bars") |
| Dead End
Gene Pool* A Memoir |
Wendy Burden | (Gotham) |
She Came from the Vanderbilts ... And Left Shaking Her Fist At Them All |
| When the Danube Ran Red | Zsuzsanna Ozsváth | (Syracuse) |
The Fate of the Jews Under The Hungarian "Arrow Cross Party" |
| Whales and Other Marine Mammals of California and Baja[G] |
Tamara Eder | (Lone Pine) |
Everything You Want to Know About these Massive Blow-Hards |
| Where is Gogol When We Need Him? |
M. Cohan | [Press Release] |
A New Art Form They Used to Call "Thievery" |
| Mental Health in Maine | Wendy Burden | [Reading] |
Doing Group Therapy Among The Proletariat of the Northeast |
| Life on a Chicken Ranch[G] | Betty MacDonald | [Reading] | The Classic Back-to-the-Farm Story |
| Night Rain | John Hodgen | [Poem] | Memories of Growing Up |
| The Spider Speaks | Shara McCallum | [Poem] | The Art of the Arachnid |
| Work | Yusef Komunyakaa | [Poem] | Temptation in the Fields |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Third Avenue El
Wokking the Dog The Wreck of the Grosvenor My Bloody Life Cryptic Letters of the Month Love Loveline Letters We Never Finished Reading A Late Client (Dead) |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| Roadside America:* Architectural Relics from A Vanishing Past |
John Margolies Jim Heimann, Editor |
(Taschen) |
Stunning Pictures from America's Weird Roadside Attactions |
| Friendly Fallout 1953 | Ann Ronald | (University of Nevada Press) |
The Government of the U. S. Hell-Bent on Poisoning Its Own Citizens |
| Volunteer: A Traveller's Guide to Making a Difference Around the World |
Charlotte Hindle, et al | (Lonely Planet) | Finding International Organizations Which Help the Poor And Less Fortunate |
| The English
Is Coming! How One Language Is Sweeping the World |
Leslie Dunton-Downer | (Touchstone) | An Exploration of the Roots Of the English Language And Where It Is Going |
| The Colossus Of Maroussi* | Henry Miller | (New Directions) | The Controversial Novelist's First Non-Fiction Work (1939) |
| Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild |
Lee Sandlin | (Pantheon) |
A Hundred Years of the Wild & Wooly Mississippi |
| Come Again No More | Jack Todd | (Touchstone) |
Boxing and Horse Rustlers and Love and The Depression in 1930s Nebraska and Wyoming |
| Tunnel People | Teun Voeten | (PM) | Living Poor in the Depths of Manhattan |
| Birds of San Diego[G] | Chris Fisher, Herbert Clarke | (Lone Pine) |
Telling the Brewer's Blackbird from the Bushtit And the Brown-Headed Cowbird |
| The 3rd Ave. El | Dr. Phage | [Article] |
Memories of Great Train Rides through The Wilds of New York City |
| Great Country Hotels | S. J. Perelman | [Reading] | Nightlife in the Small Town Hotels of Pennsylvania |
| The Invasion of the Herrings | Günter Eich | [Poetry] | Fishes Swimming in the Room |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ram Dass' Still Here The 3rd Ave. El --- Part II DADA "Starfish" Karl Marx Cryptic Letters of the Month Gelatin Free Book Reviews Language Imperialism of English Letters We Never Finished Reading Deaf and dont hear and suffering |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| A Gift of Angels* The Art of Mission San Xavier del Bac |
Bernard L. Fontana | (University of Arizona Press) | An Impressive Visit to a 300 Year Old Missionin Arizona |
| At the BBC | Joseph O'Connor | [Reading] | Old Molly Goes to Broadcast House for An On-the-Air Drama |
| Breathing, In Dust | Tim Z. Hernandez | (Texas Tech University Press) | Twenty-Two Drear Stories About Growing Up in the California Central Valley |
| Daring Steps* Traversing the Path of the Buddha |
Ringu Tulku | (Snow Lion) | Meditations on Ngulchu Thogmé and Other Tibetan Masters |
| Ghost Light* A Novel |
Joseph O'Connor | (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) | Old Molly Remembers Her Yomung Love, the Playwright John Millington Synge |
| Killer Crónicas Bilingual Memories |
Susana Chávez-Silverman | (Wisconsin) | Growing Up in California Falling in Love with Argentina |
| The Daring Spectacle* Adventures in Deviant Journalism |
Mark Morford | (Rapture Machine) | How to Offend Practically Anyone (and, in the Process, Everyone Else) |
| I Only Am Escaped Alone to Tell Thee |
Howard Nemerov | [Poem] | One of a Series from The Poets Laureate of America |
| Nevada: The Making of Modern Nevada |
Hal K. Rothman | (University of Nevada) | A History of the State With Practically No History |
| The Poets Laureate Anthology | Elizabeth Hun Schmidt, Editor | (Norton) | All the Poets Honored by America Since 1939 --- With 20 or So Poems Each |
| Planet Saturn | Henry Miller | [Reading] | A Wonderful-Awful Chapter from The Colossus of Maroussi |
| The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction |
Arthur R. Evans, et al, Editors |
(Wesleyan University Press) | What They Now Call "sf" --- From the 19th Century to the Present |
| Two Poems | Leontia Flynn | [Poetry] | "The Girl Upstairs" "Vibrator" |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| The 3rd Ave. El --- Part III DADA The Florida East Coast Line The Key West Extension The Full Moon Cryptic Letters of the Month Unleavened Bread Rolls Letters We Never Finished Reading Your Fairly Friend |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| The Return | Roberto Bolaño | (New Directions) | Thirteen Stories from America, Chile and Spain |
| The Death of RALPH Magazine | Anon | [Reading] | Australian Men "Crying in their Beers" |
| Something to Declare Good Lesbian Travel Writing |
Gillian Kendall, Editor | (Terrace/Wisconsin) | Nineteen Writers on Traveling Gay |
| Spies of the Balkans | Alan Furst | (Random) | Salonika 1940 - 1941... And Getting Away from the Germans |
| Life along the Inner Coast:* A Naturalist's Guide to the Sounds, Inlets, Rivers and Intracoastal Waterway from Norfolk to Key West |
Robert and Alice J. Lippson | (University of North Carolina Press) | Birds, Flowers, Fish, and Fauna, In the 1200 Mile Intracoastal Waterway |
| Dead Neon: Tales of Near-Future Las Vegas |
Todd James Pierce Jarret Keene, Editors |
(University of Nevada) | Fourteen Bizarre Short Stories From Neon Gulch, Nevada |
| Varieties of Liberalism in Central America[G] Nation-States as Works in Progress |
Forrest D. Colburn Arturo Cruz S. |
(University of Texas) | A Somewhat Skewed View Of the Central American Nation-States |
| Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review |
Michael J. Kiskis, Editor | (University of Wisconsin) | Tall Stories Dictated at The End of Samuel Clemens' Life |
| To Suppress the Bible | Barbara Tuchman | [Reading] | The Bible in England in the 15th Century |
| The Anarchist Guidebook | Pete Winslow | [Poetry] | Two by the Great American Poetic Anarchist |
| World War One A Short History |
Norman Stone | (Basic) | A Stylistically Astonishing View of WWI |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| The 3rd Ave. El --- Part III DADA The Airmen and The Headhunters The Key West Extension Male Enhancement Wicked River Cryptic Letters of the Month Favour (Wab) 3,5 Millions d'Euros Letters We Never Finished Reading With Tears in My Eyes |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| The Best Books of 2010 | The Editors of Ralph | [List] | A Dozen of So New Titles That Our Reviewers Found Worthy |
| Full of Grace* Encountering Mary in Faith, Art, and Life |
Judith Duprç | (Random House) | A Hundred or So Pictures And Essays on the Mother of Us All |
| Ezra Pound | New Selected Poems and Translations | (New Directions) | A Collection of Poems From the First Imagist And Original American Obscurantist |
| America in the Sixties* | John Robert Greene | (Syracuse University) | A Brief (and Charming) History Of Our Salad Years |
| Please Take Me Off the Guest List |
Zachary Lipez | (Akashic Books) | A Cryptic Series of Books-Within-Books And Zebras |
| Proofiness The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception |
Charles Seife | (Viking) | Why "Damned Stastics" Can --- and Do --- Lie |
| The World Of Yesterday* | Stefan Zweig | (Pushkin Press) | A Glorious (Personal) History of Pre- and- Post-WWI Europe |
| Nemesis | Philip Roth | (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) | A Flawed Portrait of 1944 Newark and the Polio Epidemic |
| Dada East[G] The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire |
Tom Sandqvist | (MIT) | The Origins of Dada With Some Looney Examples |
| Simba's Kapchorwa by Night Stairway to Heaven |
Douglas Cruickshank | [Articles] | Lively Adventures in Uganda |
| The Strange Troll And the Sunbeam |
Hjalmar Bergman | [Reading] | Dr. Phage Translates Something Wonderful from Sweden |
| The Menudo of A Cuchifrito Love Affair |
iguel Piñero | [Poem] | Love in the Ghetto By a Son of Puerto Rico |
| Prof of Prof | Geoffrey Brock | [Poem] | "Ozymandias" Without Teeth |