| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
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| Cihuly Florida's Ocean Railroad to Key West Long Way Back to the River Kwai If You Hear Bells Get Your Ears Checked Your Diplomat Has Arrive Letters We Never Finished Reading MULTINATIONAL OIL COMPANY EXXON |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| Ten Years Ago | The Editors of RALPH | [List] | A Look at Reviews, Poems and Readings from the Year 2002 |
| A Flotilla of Boobs | Ralph Magazine | [List] |
One of the Dying Wheezes From the Other RALPH |
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Soldiers of the White Sun The Chinese Army at War 1931 - 1949 | Philip Jowett | (Schiffer) | Photographs from the Sino-Japanese War |
| Changing Genres | Dean Young | [Poem] |
Looking for a Russian Novel Life |
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Great Journeys The World's Most Spectacular Routes |
Andrew Bain, et al. Editors | (Lonely Planet Travel) |
Following Seventy or So Routes in Travel Around the World |
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A Thousand Lives The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown | Julia Scheeres | (Free Press) |
A Look at the Early --- and Final --- Days of Jim Jones Temple |
| Kohlrabi Soup | Floyd Skloot | [Reading] |
The Last Days of Ike A Holocaust Victim |
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Cream of Kohlrabi* Stories | Floyd Skloot | (Tupelo Press) |
A Variety of Stories, Including Life in a Nursing Home for Survivors of the Holocaust |
| Un Oiseau Chante |
Guillaume Apollinaire Donald Revell, Translator | (Wesleyan University Press) |
Songs of the Birds in the Trenches of World War I |
| Smart Ass Cripple | Mike Ervin | (Lulu) |
Stories about the Perils of Being Disabled in a World Of "Verts" (Verticals) |
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On the Ground An illustrated Anecdotal History Of the Sixties Underground Press In the U. S. | Sean Stewart | (PM Press) |
Interviews with the Founders of Dozens of "Underground" Newspapers |
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Watergate A Novel | Thomas Mallon | (Random) |
A Fictinal Account of the Famous Break-In and Cover-Up from 1972ff |
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A Winter in Arabia* A Journey through Yemen | Freya Stark | (Tauris Parke) |
Six Months in One of The Most Barren Spots on Earth During the Early 1930s |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Books on Disability Stone Houses Laundry Trucks Letters We Never Finished Reading From Bed to Worse in Libya |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
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| Testy Emails | The Editors of RALPH | [List] | A Sample of the Sassiest Emails Sent to this Magazine over The Last Fifteen Years |
| Silence* 50th Anniversary Edition |
John Cage Kyle Gann, Editor |
(Wesleyan) | Cage's Great Study of Music, Art, Zen, and the Lack (and Excess) of Sound --- from 1960 |
| That's Disgusting Unraveling the Mysteries Of Repulsion |
Rachel Herz | (Norton) | Fifty or So Absolutely Repulsive Things to Make You Feel Like Throwing Up |
| Kentucky Derby Poems |
Andrea Cohen | (salmonpoetry) | Fascinating Bits on Jell-O, Train Tickets, and the Iowa State Fair Butter Carvings |
| A History of My Body A Novel |
Sharon Heath | (Genoa House) | The Unsettling Tale of a Thirteen-Year-Old Autistic (and Genius) |
| James Riely Gordon His Courthouses and Other Public Architecture |
Chris Meister | (Texas Tech University Press) | Twenty-One Georgeous Turn-of-the-Century Texas County Courthouses |
| Awake in the World Teachings from Yoga and Buddhism for Living An Engaged Life |
Michael Stone | (Shambhala) | Twenty Lectures on a Proposed New and Engaged Life of a Yogin |
| Children in Reindeer Woods* | Kristín Ómarsdóttir Lytton Smith, Translator |
(Open Letter) | An Enchanted (and Enchanting) Tale of a Soldier/Farmer and His Young Friend Billie |
| Reticence | Jean-Philippe Toussaint John Lambert, Translator | (Dalkey Archive) | Another of those Neo-Existentialst |
| The Last Hundred Days[B] | Patrick McGuiness | (Seren) | The Dying Days of the Dictator Ceausescu of Romania |
| Worm: [B]The First Digital World War | Mark Bowden | (Atlantic Monthly) | The Threat Posed by a Great Computer Worm Called Conficker |
| The Brick Murder:[B] A Tragedy |
Kurt Jose Ayau | (Livingston Press/Univ. of W. Alabama) | Four Great (and Several Not-So-Great) Short Stories |
| A Queen's Journey[B] | James D. Houston | (Heyday) | Queen Lili'uokalani of Hawai'i Tries to Save Her Country |
| Margaret Sanger:[B] A Life of Passion |
Jean H Baker | (Hill & Wang) | The Woman Who Made Birth Control (and Planned Parenthood) Possible |
| It Calls You Back:[B] An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing |
Luis J RodrÃguez | (Touchstone) | A Chicano Journalist Survives the Ghetto |
| Patagonia:[G] Land of Giants | Alejandro Winograd Dan Newland, Translator | (Terra Australis, Editorial) | A Romantic Look at the World at the End of the World |
| The Rooster In the Wristwatch[G] | Dr. J. Phage | [Article] | How to Tame those Electronic Beasts That Are Taking Over Our Lives |
| The Starting Train | V. Nabokov | [Reading] | The Train Begins Moving |
| Suicide & Yoga | Michael Stone | [Reading] | A Different Way to Treat the Suicidal Patient |
| The World Is in Pencil, The Hindenberg |
Todd Boss | [Poems] | Two Poems about Love And a Labor of Love |
| Saturn Rings about The Alambra |
C. K. Swann | [Poem] | A Poem about Love in Spain |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tesla Bird of Dawning Apt. 301 Stone-inscriptions with the Thulth Style of Script Your Time on Me Bad Uncles The Price of Pleasure Letters We Never Finished Reading Bibles for Souls |
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| Ten Stars |
The Editors of RALPH | [LIST] | The Best Books from the Last Few Months |
| Barn Owl | David Chandler | (Firefly Books) | Disgusting Habits of Some Beautiful Night Birds |
| Scenery, Curiosities, and Stupendous Rocks William Quesenbury's Overland Sketches 1850 - 1851 |
David Royce Murphy | (University of Oklahoma Press) | Drawings from 150 Years Age By a Certified Scoundrel |
| Fup* | Jim Dodge | (Heyday) | Droll Happenings of a 99-Year-Old Drunk His Grandson, and their Rabbit |
| History of a Pleasure Seeker | Richard Mason | (Alfred A. Knopf) | Poor Boy Moves in with Rich Family and Everyone is Traduced (if not Seduced |
| Beside the Sea | Véronique Olmi | (Peirene) | A Mother, Her Two Small Boys, the Sea, and Madness |
| Comet Scar | James Harms | (Carnegie Mellon) | Poems about Cary Grant, Red Foxx, Bill Murray, and Losing Your Son |
| Lying in Bed | Polly Samson | (Virago) | Several Stories about Motherhood, Old Gardners, and Surprises For Your Old Husband's New Wife |
| Solace In So Many Words |
Ellen Wade Beals | (Weighed Words) | Almost Too Many Words about Loss, and Strength in Loss |
| Married But Looking | Daniel S. Libman | (Livingston Press / University of West Alabama) |
More Short Stories --- Including a Knock-Out about The Hills of Guatemala |
| Pushing the Limits:[G] New Adventures in Engineering |
Henry Petroski | (Knopf) | Some Doubtful Triumphs In Modern International Engineering |
| Appeasing Prince Charles | Mike Ervin | (Article) | Disabled Man Finds Dope-Smoker (and Son) to Care For Him |
| Lunch in Romania, 1989 | Patrick McGuiness | [Reading] | Going Out with a Top Operative In the Last Days of Ceausescu |
| The Angel of Death | Stanley Elkin | [Reading] | The Last Hours of An Innocent in a Liquor Store |
| We Started Home, My Son and I |
James Harms | [Poem] | A Short Visit with A Son (Now Lost) |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Mythic Death of Carlos Amantea Multiple Personality Disorder Married but Looking Dan Libman Cryptic Letters of the Month Windmills and Birds Attendant Beds Letters We Never Finished Reading a rainfall of information |
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| The Vagabond's Breakfast* |
Richard Gwyn | (Alcemi) | A Derelict Raving through Europe |
| Hidden Seminoles Julian Dimock's Historic Florida Photographs |
Jerald T. Milanich Nina J. Root |
(University Press of Florida) | Four Years of Photographs from The Early Years of the Twentieth Century |
| Selected Short Stories of William Faulkner | William Faulkner | (Modern Library) | Sixteen Stories from Faulkner's Eraly Days |
| The Plots against the President the Rise of the American Right |
Sally Denton | (Bloomsbury) | Plots --- Yes, But Only Two And They Were Minor |
| The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry An Anthology |
Ilan Stavans, Editor | (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) | 160 Poems --- Mostly Rather Bland |
| Asylum on the Hill History of a Healing Landscape |
Katherine Ziff | (Ohio University Press) | One of the Great Post Civil War Buildings for the Mad |
| 1222 A Hanne Wilhelmsen Novel |
Anne Holt | (Scribner) | A Rather Haphazard Account of A Murderer on the Loose In an Idylic Mountain Retreat |
| Building One Fire
Art + World View in Cherokee Life |
Chadwick Corntassel Smith Rennard Benny Smith Strickland |
(Cherokee Nation University of Oklahoma) |
More than 200 Gorgeous Works of Art from Pre- and Post-"Resettlement" |
| Joining the Resistance | Carol Gilligan | (Polity) | How Girls are Coopted, and Pulled into the System of Patriarchy |
| God Breaketh Not All Men's Hearts Alike New & Later Collected Poems |
Stanley Moss | (Seven Stories Press) | Over 300 Poems from the Realist/Modernist |
| An Old
Wife's Tale[G] My Seven Decades In Love and War |
Midge Decter | (Regan/Harper/Collins) | The War is Pretty Well Expressed; The Love Is Almost Completely Hidden |
| Classic K: Jan Ladislav Dussek and François-Joseph Gossec |
Dr. Phage | [Article] | Some Thoughts about the New Forms of Classical Background Music |
| The Great Land Giveaway | C. A. Amantea | [Article] | How Zoning and Planning Commisions Have Sucked Our Cities Dry |
| Jimson Weed | Richard Gwyn | [Reading] | A Few Days in the Arms Of a Super Hallucinogen |
| The Fiction of Oil Pollution | James Hamilton-Paterson | [Reading] | How the Earth Will Heal Itself of those Pesky Spills |
| The Dead Horse | Cecilia Meireles | [Poem] | Romance of the Dead Horse On the Hill |
| Nursing Home Doctors | Richard M. Berlin | [Poem] | An Imaginary Medico In an Imaginary Clinic |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither/Nor Tattoos Cryptic Letters of the Month You're a Donkey Letters We Never Finished Reading $10,000,000 in Iraq |
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| Gorgeous |
The Editors of RALPH | [List] | A Dozen Pages That Our Editors Consider to Be Beautiful |
| War and Ideas* Selected Essays |
John Mueller | (Routledge) | Some Thoughts on The Terrorist Industry War, and (eek!) Rambo |
| From Here to Infinity A Vision for the Future of Science |
Martin Rees | (W. W. Norton) | Four Reith Lectures on Science and the Humanities |
| The Best American
Magazine Writing 2011* Compiled by the American Society of Magazine Editors |
Sid Holt, Editor | (Columbia University Press) | Twenty-four essays, reports, interviews, articles and poems from some of the best magazines. |
| Shockaholic | Carrie Fisher | (Simon and Schuster) | A Bit of a Rant from "Michael Jackson's Best Friend" |
| Rez Life An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life |
David Treuer | (Atlantic Monthly Press) | He Lives in LA --- But Hails from the Ojibwe in in Minnesota |
| The Human Body Close-Up | John Clancy | (Firefly Books) | Almost 300 very close-ups of all your private inner parts |
| Cain*
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José Saramago | (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) | He slayed his brother and then Spent the rest of his life dealing With the madman from above |
| Measuring the World | Daniel Kehlmann | (Pantheon) | Alexander von Humboldt says that Numbers banish disorder |
| Recherche du Temps Perdu |
Dr. Phage | [Article] | In which our good doctor Finds a monster in his lab |
| Is Civil War
Going out of Style? |
John Mueller | [Reading] | The historian decides that Wars are passé |
| Rambo's Vital Statistics |
John Mueller | [Reading] | Four Movies Analaysed For their Mean Distribution |
| Last Spring Static Poems |
Gottfried Benn | [Poetry] | Poems of Dissection and Cadavers |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Slave Trade A Letter from Timothy Geithner Cryptic Letters of the Month A Sound Lady |
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| Thirteen Hits | [The Editors] | Thirteen Great Books from the First Half of 2012 | Selections drawn from our readers and editors. |
| The Fish that Ate the Whale The Life and Times of America's Banana King |
Rich Cohen | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | The Man Who Invented United Fruit Revealed |
| Isaac to Be Sacrificed by His Father |
Josél Saramago | [Reading] | Abraham Readies Himself To Bring Down the Knife |
| Old Havana La Habana Vieja Spirit of the Living City (University of Alabama Press) |
Chip Cooper Néstor Martí |
(University of Alabama Press) | An Up-to-Date Picture Book of Modern Havana |
| Black Elephants A Memoir |
Karol Nielsen | (Bison Books) | Life and Love in Modern Israel |
| Grandfather Midlife Crises |
Joseph Millar | [Poetry] | On Being a Grandfather In the 21st Century |
| Ill Fares the Land Postwar |
Tony Judt | (Penguin) | The Long Slow Death of European Center-Left |
| The Long and Short of It From Aphorism to Novel |
Gary Saul Morson | (Stanford) | A Man Fond of fond of Apothegms, Witticisms, Maxims, Dicta, Aphorisms, and Short Pithy Mots |
| The Murderer | Ray Bradbury | [Reading] | A Prescient Look at Our Dependence on Electronic Do-dads. |
| Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That? | Jesse Bering | (Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux) |
An Eclectic Enquiry into The Private World of the Privates |
| A Raisin in the Sun | Lorraine Hansberry | (L. A. Theatre Works/ Audio Theatre Collection) |
A Live Performance of the Play from the Late 1950s |
| The Woman in the Row Behind[G] | Francoise Dorner | (Other Press) | An Odd Story from Paris Of a Man and His Fetish |
| There but for the* | Ali Smith | (Pantheon) | A Girl Genius and A Man Who Came to Dinner |
| The Man on The Third Floor |
Anne Bernays | (Permanent Press) | The Chauffeur on the 3rd Floor And His Love Downstairs |
| Welcome to Paradise | Mahi Binebine | (Tin House Books) | Fleeing from North Africa Dying on the Coast |