| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Blues Hitler's First Photograph Cryptic Letters from India Cryptic Letters from Chicago Letters We Never Finished Reading Gold Mining Farm |
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| Beautiful Pages | The Editors of RALPH | [List] | A Dozen of Our Most Beautiful Pages |
| Discovering Totem Poles A Traveler's Guide<> |
Aldona Jonaitis |
(University of Washington / Douglas & McIntyre) |
Fifty Examples of the Tetem Poles in Washington, Canada, and Alaska |
| The Snow White Christmas Cookie | David Handler | (Minotaur) | Murder in Tranquil New England With all those Crusty New England Suspects |
| Intimate An American Family Photo Album |
Paisley Rekdal | (Tupelo) | The Great Photographer Edward Curtis As Seen through the Eyes of One of His Fans |
| The Vacuum Cleaner A History |
Carroll Gantz | (MaFarland & Co.) | Everything You Could Ever Never Want to Know about Our Most Homely Home Appliance |
| Outlaw Marriages The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex Couples |
Rodger Streitmatter | (Beacon) | Fifteen Gay Love Affairs Before There Was Even the Word "Gay" |
| Summer Lies | Bernhard Schlink | (Pantheon) | Seven Stories by the Author of The Reader |
| Black Fridays | Michael Sears | (Putnam) | A Man and His Autistic Son And the Horrors of Wall Street |
| If You Are Lucky, Your Heart Will Break Field Notes from A Zen Life |
James Ishmael Ford | (Wisdom) |
A Slim Volume of Thoughts About Soto Zen |
| In the Heart
Of the Sea[G] The Tragedy of The Whaleship Essex |
Nathaniel Philbrick | (Viking) | Several Sailors Adrift in the South Pacific with Nothing to Eat (But Each Other) |
|
To a Friend
About to Enter Hospital For Major Surgery for The First Time |
C. A. Amantea | [Article] | Thoughts about the Horrors Of Our Initial Hospital Trip |
| The FBI Joins the Investigation | David Handler | [Reading] | From The Snow White Christmas Cookie |
| A Zen Story | James Ishmael Ford | [Reading] | From If You Are Lucky, Your Heart Will Break |
| What I Did Not Tell Anyone | Kate Gale | [Poem] | "I felt like Russia During All the Wars" |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paintings from Bali
Ferlinghetti The Last of the Just Cryptic Letters from Andriana And Ms. Birdford |
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| Best Books of 2012 | The Editors of RALPH | [List] | Our Selection of the Best Books of this Year |
| Discovering Totem Poles A Traveler's Guide |
Aldona Jonaitis |
(University of Washington / Douglas & McIntyre) |
Fifty Examples of the Tetem Poles in Washington, Canada, and Alaska |
| Following Tommy | Bob Hartley | (Cervená Barva Press) | A Novel of Chicago Gang LIfe From the 1950s & 1960s |
| American Copia An Immigrant Epic |
Javier O. Huerta |
(Arte/Publico Press / University of Houston) |
A Paean of Praise for American Supermarkets |
| Battleborn Stories | Claire Vaye Watkins | (Riverhead) | Nine Short Stories Including One about the Man Who Pimped for Charles Manson |
| Walking the Amazon
860 Days, One Step at a Time |
Ed Stafford | (Plume) | Over Two Years Walking Down the Amazon River |
| Eyewitness to World War II Unforgettable Stories and Photographs from History's Greatest Conflict |
Neil Kagan Stephen G. Hyslop |
(National Geographic) | A Pictorial Historyof WWII |
| Resurrection Express A Thriller |
Stephen Romano | (Gallery) | A Young Thief And His Father |
| Ant Encounters Interaction, Networks and Colony Behavior |
Deborah M. Gordon | (Princeton) | An Artistic Study of How Ants Negotiate the World |
| Posters of the Canadian Pacific[G] | Marc H. Choko David L. Jones |
(Firefly) | A Rich Study of the Past Through Canadian Railroad Posters |
| I Was Forcibly Sterilized By the State of North Carolina And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt |
Mike Ervin | (Article) | How Eugenics Ruled North Carolina for Over Thirty Years |
| Right-orooni | Jack Kerouac | (Reading) | Slim Gaillard at his Best |
| Peanut Butter | Eileen Myers | (Poem) | Peanut Butter and Unrequited Love |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paintings from Bali
Slim Gaillard Following Tommy Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog Snob Chinese Encyclopedia Cryptic Letters of the Month Please&Play I am very glade |
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| A Dozen Photography Books | The Editors of RALPH | [List] | Twelve of Our Favorite Books on Photography |
| The Best American Magazine Writing 2012 | Sid Holt, Editor | (Columbia University Press) | An Anthology of Nineteen Essays and Stories From Sixteen Different Magazines |
| Cardiff before Cardiff | Keith S. Robertson Jon Pountney | (Y Lolfa Talybont Ceredigion) | A Collection of Photographs of that City From the 1970s Combined with Newer Black-and-White Shots |
| Picturing the Cosmos The Hubble Space Telescope Images And the Astronomical Sublime |
Elizabeth A. Kessler | (University of Minnesota Press) | How Photographs from the Hubble Telescope Are Dolled Up Before We See Them |
| The Polish Boxer | Eduardo Halfon | (Bellevue Literary Press) | A Man Transfixed by Gypsies |
| Swimming Home | Deborah Levy | (Bloomsbury) | A Novel of Poets and Poets Lovers Living (and Dying) One Summer near Nice |
| The Life of An Unknown Man* | Andreï Makine | (Graywolf Press) | A Writer Returns to Russia to Find That Russia Has Changed, Perhaps Left Him Behind |
| Sister Bernadette's
Barking Dog[G] The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences |
Kitty Burns Florey | (Harvest) | Diagramming: How to Do It (And How to Love It) |
| Helena Petrovna Blavatsky In India | Lolita Lark | [Article] | How One of the Great Mystics of the Past Lived and Traveled through India (1885) |
| Licensing Your Baby | Heather Kien Lanier | [Reading] | Why Don't They Make Us Have A License to Make a Baby |
| Ant Surprises | Deborah M. Gordon | [Reading] | Strange and Wonderful Things The Lowly Ant Can Do |
| Twelve Great Poetry Books | The Editors | [List] | Twelve Great Books of Verse That Have Come in to RALPH Over the Years |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paintings from Bali
The Horse Whisperer Let's talk more my bunny! Letters We Never Finished Reading $500,000.00 |
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| University Press Demands RALPH Remove Review |
TTUP | [Letter] | Claims our Review is "disparaging to rural and urban Texans alike." |
| Twelve Great Nonfiction Books | The Editors of RALPH | [List] | Reviews of a Dozen of Our Favorite Recent Nonfiction Books |
| Things that Are* Essays |
Amy Leach | (Milkweed Editions) | Otherworldly Thoughts on Such Things as Moons, Beavers, Popes, Alligators, Donkeys |
| What They Do
In the Dark* A Novel |
Amanda Coe | (Norton) | Life in a Yorkshire Viillage After the Movie-Makers Come to Town |
| Travels with Bertha Two Years Exploring Australia In a 1978 Ford Stationwagon |
Paul Martin | (Liberties Press) | A Tour --- Slow, Sometimes Painful --- Through the Far Reaches of Australia |
| Taliesin Diary A Year with Frank Lloyd Wright |
Priscilla J Henken | (Norton) | Revelations---Some Strange Some Awful --- of Life In a Commune of the Master |
| The White House An illustrated Architectural History |
Patrick Phillips-Schrock | (McFarland & Co.) | Things You Might Want to Not Know about the Executive Mansion |
| Gandharan Buddhist Reliquaries | David Jongeward, et al |
(Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project University of Washington) |
A Large, Beautiful Volume Of the Shapes and Secrets Of the Homes of The Bones of Buddha |
| Seeing the New South Race and Place in the Photographs Of Ulrich Bonnell Phillips |
Patricia Bellis Bixel John David Smither |
(University of South Carolina Press) | Ninety Photographs of the Old South By an Old Southerner |
| The Tragic History of The Sea [G] | C. R. Boxer Josiah Blackmore |
(Minnesota) | Seven Astounding Tragedies of Shipwrecks through the Ages |
| Just Say Neigh (To Horse d'Oeuvres) |
Dr. Phage | [Article] | The Current Controversy over Horse-Meat (and the Possible Advantages of Consuming it) |
| Donkey Derby | Amy Leach | [Reading] | Thoughts on a Race Between You and the Burros |
| My Black Cat | Clare Marx Arce | [Poem] | Old Sone about Small Cats and Beauty |
| Did You See? She Had Flowers Up Her Nose |
Emma St. James | [Poem] | Madness and Death |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| The White House
Insults to Texans Cryptic Letters of the Month Pet Blowing Machine |
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| Twelve Great Translations | The Editors of RALPH | [List] | A Dozen Translations that We've Come to Love Over the Years |
| Philip Larkin:
The Complete Poems |
Archie Burnett, Editor | (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) | Three Hundred Poems by the Arch-Cynic |
|
The Color of Hay
The Peasants of Maramures |
Kathleen Laraía McLaughlin H. Woods McLaughlin |
(H L Books) | Photographs of a Dying Peasantry From Upper Middle Romania |
|
Drinking with Men
A Memoir |
Rosie Schaap | (Riverhead Books) | The Pleasures of Bar-Hopping For a Single Lady on Her Own |
| Scenes from Early Life | Philip Hensher | (Fourth Estate) | Growing up in Bangla Desh (Before It Was Bangla Desh) |
|
News from Heaven The Bakerton Stories |
Jennifer Haigh | (HarperCollins) | Ten Short Stories from A Burnt-Out Mining Town |
|
Forged
Why Fakes Are The Great Art of Our Age |
Jonathon Keats | (Oxford) | Six Great Forgers and How They Changed the Art World Forever |
|
Script and Scribble
The Rise and Fall of Handwriting |
Kitty Burns Florey | (Melville House) | A Study of Handwriting Through the Ages |
|
My Escapee
Stories |
Corinna Vallianatos | (Massachusetts) | Ten Stories of Women Man-Handled by Men |
| They Can't Hide Us Anymore [G] | Richie Havens | (Spike) | The Autobiography of The Singer of "Freedom" |
| The Privileged Cat | H. Woods McLaughlin | [Reading] | The Order of Privilege of Animals On a Typical Farm |
| The Pakistani Taxi Driver | Rosie Schaap | [Reading] | Being Drunk and Being Saved (Fortuitously) by a Good Taxi Driver |
| Black Earth City | Charlotte Hobson | [Reading] | Gypsies in the Russian City of Voronezh |
|
Toad Rag & Bone |
Norman MacCaig | [Poetry] | Two by the Great Scot's Poet |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alain Badiou and Saint Paul La fondation de l'universalisme Ethel Merston Gertrude Bell Cryptic Letters of the Month Frogs $$$ in Afghanistan Letters We Never Finished Reading Mighty Man Dully Yours |
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| Why O Why? | The Editors of RALPH | [List] | A Dozen Paradoxes-of-the-Month From the Past Pages of RALPH |
| Oil* | Gavin Bridge Philippe Le Billon |
(Polity) | Countless Facts about Petroleum: Where It Started, Where It Is Taking Us |
| Thomas Brock Forgotten Sculptor of The Victoria Memorial |
Frederick Brock | (Victoria and Albert Museum) | The History of a Forgotten Sculptor Who Is Better Off, Perhaps, Forgotten |
| The Mermaid of Brooklyn* A Novel |
Amy Shearn | (Touchstone) | A Novel for Those Who Might Be Thinking about Having Babies, But Aren't Too Sure |
| Black Earth City | Charlotte Hobson | (Picador) | A British Student in Voronezh in 1991-92 Right After the Fall of Communism |
| Story of a Secret State My Report to the World |
Jan Karski | (Georgetown University Press) | The Autobiography of the Young Pole Who Was One of the First To Tell the Truth about Nazism |
| Fine Bonsai:* Art & Nature |
William N. Valavanis Jonathan M. Singer, Photographer |
(Abbeville Press Publishers) | A Weighty (and Glorious) Treasure-Trove Of 300 Tiny Trees |
| Postmodern American Poetry A Norton Anthology |
Paul Hoover, Editor | (Norton) | 114 poets, 583 poems from Post-WWII America |
| The Woman of Porto Pim* | Antonio Tabucchi | (Archipelago Books) | A Touching Memoir of The Azores and The Whales |
| Nights in the
Pink Motel [G] An American Strategist's Pursuit of Peace in Iraq (Naval Institute Press) |
Robert Earle | (Naval Institute Press) | A Fascinating Study (in Novelistic Form) Of One Man's Struggle to Get Us Out of the Iraqi Quagmire |
| The Kitty Inquisition | Article | Dr. Phage | Four Centuries of the Roman Catholic Ordered Persecution of Cats and Dogs and The Unintended Consequences Thereof |
| Interrogation
and
Suicide The Polish Typhoid Mary |
Jan Karski | [Readings] | Excerpts from Story of a Secret State |
| Personal Poem | Frank O'Hara | [Poem] | Memories of Being Poor In New York City |
| E-Mail You | Walter F. Sargent | [Poem] | Love and the Frustrations of the Internet |
| What Was It about That Sweet Summer of 2006? |
The Readers of RALPH | List | The Most Favored Old Issue of RALPH |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
John Barth Kitty Burns Florey Robert Earle Nights in the Pink Motel Paradoxes Edward R. Murrow Women and The Mexican Revolution Why do not you write? |
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| Fifteen Hits | The Readers of RALPH | [List] | Pur Readers Most Favored Reviews, Articles, Poems and Reviews from the Pages of RALPH | |
| New Selected Poems* | Les Murray | (Carcanet Press) | Over Three Hundred Poems from The Australian Anti-Modernist | |
| A Straight Road With 99 Curves* Coming of Age on the Path of Zen |
Gregory Shepherd | (Stone Bridge Press) | An Innocent American Stoner Decides to Journey on the Way | |
| New Deal Photographs
Of West Virginia 1934 - 1943 |
Betty Rivard, Editor | (West Virginia University Press) | Great --- and often Sad Black and White Images from the Coal Fields> | |
| Wet* Poems |
Carolyn Creedon | (Kent State University Press) | Poems, Reality, the Here-and-Now By One of the American Masters | |
| The Last Frontier Exploring Afterlife and Transforming Death |
Julia Assante | (New World Library) | An Extended Look at that Weird Place Where We Have to Go When It's Time To Hang It Up | |
| Jude the Obscure | Thomas Hardy Neville Jason, Reader |
(Naxos Audiobooks) | Hardy's Last, and Most Confounding, Novel | |
| Maya
Architecture Temples in the Sky |
Kenneth Treister | (University Press of Florida) | The Known and Unknown Temples from 1000 Years Ago --- Illustrated and Described | |
| Reinventing Bach | Paul Elie | (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) | A Thorough Examination of Bach's Recordings, and Those Who Have Dared to Record Him | |
| Shostakovich
Symphonies and
Concertos: [G] An Owner's Manual |
David Hurwitz | (Amadeus Press) | Shostakovich and His Fearful Life Under Josef Stalin | |
| Vassar Clements Sure Didn't Know Much About Cripples |
Mike Ervin | [Article] | Mike Ervin Uses His Wheelchair To Get Behind the Curtain | |
| Who Beats Your Heart? | L. W. Milam | [Article] | Our Hero Finds a New Toy --- A Pacemaker --- (Being Laid Next to What's Left of His Heart) | |
| The Grave Mother | Marilynne Robinson | [Reading] | Left Alone By Her Strange Mother | |
| After the Mastectomy | Meredith Norton | [Reading] | To Lose a Breast | |
| Learning To Read (Passionately) | Amos Oz | [Reading] | Being Subsumed by The Word | |
| Derrick Asks to See My Horns |
Kevin Coval | [Poem] | "it is 1993." | |
| Ode to the Gefilte Fish | Kevin Coval | [Poem] | "this flawed, lovely creation tastes so much like home. bitter. sweet. |