| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| J. S. Bach and Wagner Rockefeller the Titan This Bloody Life William Quesenbury A Defenseless Punching Bag? |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
Correspondence with the Magazine Concerning Previous Reviews, Articles, Poems, Readings, and Letters to RALPH |
| Twelve Great Audio Books | The Editors of RALPH | [List] | A Dozen Beautiful Books Read Beautifully |
| Hoosh* Roast Penguin, Scurvy Day, and Other Stories of Antarctic Cuisine | Jason C. Anthony | (Nebraska) | Things Your Would Never Dream of Eating Served Hot (and Cold) at the South Pole |
| Revenge Eleven Dark Tales |
Yoko Ogawa | (Picador) | Spooky Stuff Happening in the Most Unspooky Settings |
| Mango and Mint Arabian, Indian, and North African Inspired Cuisine |
Nicky Garratt | (PM Press) | Two hundred recipes including hummus, curry, pilafs, and a selection of pickles, chutneys, and soups. |
| The Book of Time The Secrets of Time, How It Works, and How We Measure It |
Adam Hart-Davis | (Firefly) | Everything You Could Ever Never Want to Know about That Which Is Pushing us Down That Long Lonely Road |
| Vanity Fair* |
William Makepeace Thackeray Read by Georgina Sutton |
(Naxos Audiobooks) | A Twenty-Five Disc Romp through Early 19th Century England (With All Its Rogues, Layabouts, Social Climbers and Innocents) |
| Karl Bodmer's
America Revisited Landscape Views Across Time | W. Raymond Wood, Robert M Lindholm | (Oklahoma) | A 3,000 Mile Trip Across Early 19th Century America with Artist Karl Bodmer and His Patron |
| New California Writing --- 2013 | Gayle Wattawa, Kirk Glaser, Editors | (Heyday/Santa Clara University) | Over Forty Stories, Poems, Articles and Readings |
| The
Castle[G] A New Translation |
Mark Harman | (Schocken) | A New (and Even More Tedious) Rendering of the Master of the Grim |
| The Death of Jesús | C. A. Amantea | [Article] | Another Story of the Death of One Who (Perhaps) Should Have Lived Far Longer |
| A Petition on Behalf of Saddam Hussein | C. A. Amantea | [Article] | A Wry Suggestion on the Reasons Hussein Might Have Been Spared |
| In the Bakery | Yoko Ogawa | [Reading] | A Snippet from Revenge |
| Eating Your Transport | Jason C. Anthony | [Reading] |
The Unhappy Fates of the Dogs Who Transport Their Masters So Faithfully |
| Two Poems of Battle | Siegfried Sassoon | [Poems] | The Real World War One |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bach Transcriptions Karin Fossum Don't Look Now Letters We Never Finished Reading Improving RALPH's Business Image Mysterious Letters from the East She Said That You Are Death |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
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| Twenty Great Poems | The Editors of RALPH | [List] | Selections from the 600 Poems Previously Published at RALPH |
| Equilateral*
A Novel | Ken Kalfus | (Bloomsbury) | A Famous Astronomer from 100 Years Ago Tries to Make Contact with the Martians |
| Miss Lonelyhearts* | Nathanael West | (New Directions) | A New Edition of the Woes of Being A Columnist for the Lonely and Dispossessed |
| Vulgar Remedies
Poems | Anna Journey | (Louisiana State University) | Poems of Folklore, Farming, Dreams with Three Sonnets to Ambien |
| Refugee Hotel | Gabriele Stabile Juliet Linderman |
(Voice of Witness/ McSweeney's Books) |
150 Photographs Plus Personal Memories of Arriving in America as a Refugee |
| People, Parasites, And Plowshares Learning from Our Body's Most Terrifying Invaders | Dickson D. Despommier | (Columbia) | Tapeworms, Guinea Worms, River Blindness, Malaria, and Other Dismal Parasites |
| The Dark Path A Memoir | David Schickler | (Riverhead ) | Growing Up as the Man Who Would Be Priest |
| The California Driving Handbook
A Novel | Edmund G. Brown, Governor | (DMV) | A Strange and Moving Tale Of the Man Who Would Be The Perfectly Driven Driver |
| Broken
Land [G]
Poems of Brooklyn | Julia Spicher Kasdorf Michael Tyrell, Editors | (New York University Press) | Poems from 1666 to the Present Day From and About Brooklyn |
| Studying Russian Studying Russians | Jane Resh Thomas Dr. Phage |
[Articles] | Thoughts on the History of Russia And the Vagaries of the Russian People |
| Lie, Lie, Lie [G] How I Wrote the School of Beauty and Charm | Melanie Summer | [Reading] | A Memoir of a Writer Growing up in Rome, Georgia |
| The Red Star The Hot Air Balloon | Ken Kalfus | [Readings] | Two Selections from Equilateral |
| Dear Miss Lonelyhearts | Nathanael West | [Reading] | A Letter from One Enraged (And Puzzled) by Life |
| Sea Hag | Carley Moore | [Poem] | On the Wife Who "Pecks Your Eyes Out" |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equilateral The Collyer Brothers Letters We Never Finished Reading Barging a Message (In Your Mailbox) |
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| Youthful Folly (A Dozen Great Novels) |
The Editors of RALPH | [List] | Some of Our Favorites From Five Years Ago |
| Somehow* Living on Uganda Time |
Douglas Cruickshank | (Verflectin Media) | Three Hundred Great Photos --- With Commentary --- On Modern Uganda Village Life |
| Levels of Life* | Julian Barnes | (Alfred A Knopf) | A Meditation on Hot-Air Balloons --- And the Death of a Dear One |
| Madame Bovary* Provincial Morals |
Gustave Flaubert Adam Thorpe, Translator |
(Modern Library) | A New Translation of the Classic She Loves Him She Bores Him Novel |
| Heading Out To Wonderful* | Robert Goolrick Norman Dietz, Reader |
(HighBridge Audio) | Another Classic Love Triangle Story Superbly (and Deliciously) Read |
| Burying the Typewriter A Memoir |
Carmen Bugan | (Graywolf) | Growing Up in Romania as the Child Of a Troublemaking Dissident Father |
| Upton Sinclair California Socialist, Celebrity Intellectual |
Lauren Coodley | (University of Nebraska Press) | A Short Life of the Radical Who Almost Became Governor |
| Stealing Sugar from the Castle Selected and New Poems 1950 - 2013 |
Robert Bly | (Norton) | Three Hundred Poems from The Author of Iron John |
| Monologue Of a Dog [G] | Wislawa Szymborska Clare Cavanagh Stanislaw Baranczak Translators |
(Harcourt) | Some Great Poems from The Nobel Prize Winner |
| Under the Skin [G] | Michael Faber | (Harcourt) | The Alien Invasion (of Scotland!) Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture |
| The Seal Hotel | Jon Gallant | [Article] | Dreaming of Japanese City Planes And Seals Running a Hotel |
| Animal Quackers | L. W. Milam | [Article] | Growing Up with Giant Indian Runner Ducks |
| Dying, Death, Grief | Julian Barnes | [Reading] | The Death of One Very Near and Dear |
| A Man and His Daughter | Robert Goolrick | [Reading] | Selling Your Daughter To the Highest Bidder |
| "Saltpetre and
Robert Frost" "Cartalk" | Jack McCarthy | [Poetry] | Two by the Beat Poet Of New England |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scabies Baby On The Essence And Matrix Of The Universe-Life 5ft bah tubs | The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
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| Fifteen Hits | The Editors of RALPH | [List] | Reviews, Readings and Poems That Get the Greatest Number of Hits Each Month |
| Glittering Images A Journey through Art From Egypt to Star Wars |
Camille Paglia | (Vintage) | Almost Thirty Artists Illustrated and Described |
| Mommyblogs* And the Changing Face of Motherhood |
May Friedman | (University of Toronto Press) | Four Huge Blogs and Thousands of Smaller Ones Are Changing Love (and Hate) in Motherhood |
| The Old Priest* Stories |
Anthony Wallace | (University of Pittsburgh) | Nine Often Very Funny Stories about Blackjack Dealers And Old Gay Priests (and Dinosaurs) |
| The Roy Stories* | Barry Gifford | (Seven Stories Press) | Dozens and Dozens of Stories about Growing up in Chicago Nuts on the Streets and A Loving but Absent Mother |
| My Life as a Silent Movie A Novel |
Jesse Lee Kercheval | (Break Away Books) | Ivan Mosjoukine, the Great Russian Silent Screen Movie Star, Sprinkled His Children around like Seeds on the Steppes So They Come Back and Haunt Him |
| Thirteen Cents | K. Sello Duiker | (Ohio University Press) | Duiker Is Showed to Be A Great but Largely Unknown South African Author |
| Astronomical
Enigmas [G] Life on Mars, The Star of Bethlehem & Other Milky Way Mysteries | Mark Kidger | (Johns Hopkins) | Scores of Strange and Wonderful Facts About Our Own Milky Way |
| State Houses: [G] America's 50 State Houses |
Susan Thrane Tom Patterson, Photographer |
(Boston Mills Press) | All of Them Are Shown And Our Reviewer Reviews Them All |
| Pistol Packin' Momma | L. W. Milam | [Article] | Some Thoughts on Childish Hi-Jinx and The Second World War |
| Poisoning the Neighbor's Dogs | Anthony Wallace | [Reading] | Getting Rid of Those Barks at Night |
| Blue People | Barry Gifford | [Reading] | A Shaggy-Dog Story About How to Dye Your Clothes (and You) Blue |
| Night Owl | Barry Gifford | [Reading] | Another Story from The Roy Stories |
| A Tonight's Lecture The McPoem |
Ronald Wallace | [Poems] | Two Great Old Poems From the RALPH Vaults |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| The New Folio Getting Locked in the Looney Ward STOP CONTACTING THOSE PEOPLE There'll Always Be an England Cat-on-Shoulder Division |
The Readers of RALPH | [Letters] |
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| Fifteen Stars | The Editors of RALPH | [List] | The Best of Novels, Non-Fiction, and Poetry Books Received and Reviewed during 2013 |
| Wm & H'ry Literature, Love, and the Letters Between William and Henry James |
J. C. Hallman | (University of Iowa Press) | Thoughts about the Correspondence Between the James Brothers |
| Civil Wars* Poems |
David Slavitt | (Louisiana State University Press) | Poems about turtles, civil wars, combs, spies, harmonicas, baseball, dancing bears, insomnia, and revolving doors. |
| Lines in Long Array A Civil War Commemoration |
David C. Ward Frank H. Goodyear, Editors |
(National Portrait Gallery Smithsonian Books) |
Twelve Poems from Now, and Twelve from back Then With Appropriate Pictures |
| The Science of Herself* | Karen Joy Fowler | (PM Press) | Several Essays along with an Interview of the Outspoken Fowler |
| The Faithful Scribe A Story of Islam, Pakistan, Family, and War |
Shahan Mufti | (Other Press) | Born and Education in the U.S. and In Pakistan Mufti Tries to Heal the Split |
| Into the Night* Tales of Nocturnal Wildlife Expeditions |
Rick A. Adams, Editor | (University Press of Colorado) | Very Funny Real Life Stories of Tracking Fruitbats, Mountain Chickiens, and Walking Batfish |
| Three Women in a Mirror | Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt | (Europa Editions) | A Sixteenth Century Saint Who Inspired Followers from the 20th and 21st Centuries |
| In the Pleasure Groove Love, Death & Duran Duran |
John Taylor | (Plume) | One of the Bands Founders Confesses All |
| Shooting
Under
Fire[G] The World of the War Photographer | Peter Howe | (Artisan) | Over a Hundred Horrific Photographs From the Killing Fields |
| The English
Is Coming![G] How One Language Is Sweeping the World |
Leslie Dunton-Downer | (Touchstone) | Facts of the Language that Is Taking Over the World |
| The Evening the World Ended | Dr. Phage | [Article] | A Typical Night at the AA Meeting |
| God Vs. Gawd[G] | A. W. Allworthy | [Article] | How the Two Gods Are Taking over the United States |
| The House
Is Sleeping A Dying Wife |
Angel Igov | [Readings] | Two Readings from the Superb Novel A Short Tale of Shame |
| Salida de Emergencia Raimon de Roussilon |
David R. Slavitt | [Poems] | Two from Civil Wars |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Penguin Aux Gousses D'ail Pest Control at RALPH Letters We Never Finished Reading Your $500,000 |
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| Twelve Hit Pix | The Editors of RALPH | [List] | Those Drawings, Pictures and Photographs that Get the Greatest Number of Hits Each Month |
| Firefly* | Janette Jenkins | (Europa Editions) | A Novel about the Last Years of Noël Coward |
| Allegiance and Betrayal
Stories |
Peter Makuck | (Syracuse) | Twelve Stories about People Floating through Life With Endless Gin-and-Tonics in their Hands |
| A Short Tale of Shame* | Angel Igov | (Open Letter) | An Odd Novel about an Odd Trip through Thrace: An Ex-Rocker and Three College Students |
| The Round House | Louise Erdrich | (Harper Perennial) | Growing Up and Rape and Murder in Objibwe Territory |
| Snow Hunters | Paul Yoon | (Random House) | A Soldier from North Korea Ends Up in Brazil |
| Glorious Misadventures
Nikolai Rezanov and The Dream of Russian America |
Owen Matthews | (Bloomsbury) | Early 19th Century Attempts by Russia to Conquer Alaska and The Pacific Northwest |
| The Story of a New Name
The Neapolitan Novels: Book Two |
Elena Ferrante | (Europa Editions) | Several Neopolitan Families in Love and Hate (and Seduction) |
| Five Old New Titles[G] | William Carlos Williams, et al |
(New Directions, University of Oklahoma, etc.) |
Five New Titles from 2009 - 2010 |
| Owls[G] | Cynthia Berger | (Stackpole) | Some Fairly Disgusting Insights Into the Nesting Habits of Those Lovely Night Birds |
| Madness[G]
A Bipolar Life | Marya Hornbacher | (Mariner) | One of Our Earlier Hit Reviews About Anorexia and Bulemia |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | Dr. Phage / C. A. Amantea | [Article] | An Improbable Biography of The Improbable Existentialist |
| Among Russians Among Russians II |
Colin Thubron | [Reading] | A Trip through the Last Days of Stalinist Russia |
| Two Visits in
One Day, March 16 [1996] |
Hal Sirowit David Lehman | [Poetry] | Four Poems from Word of Mouth |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Blue Days, Black Nights Love Sweeting Not Sweating Cryptic Letters of the Month Now u know the alphabet The Hospital in Comma |
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| A Heap of Paradoxes | The Editors of RALPH | [List] | A droll statement, an obscure fact,
an elusive epigram --- that should serve to perplex if not enlighten our readers and ourselves. |
| Monkey Mind* A Memoir of Anxiety | Daniel Smith | (Simon & Schuster | Years and years of panic attacks caused by a vicious rape. |
| Hawthorn & Child* | Keith Ridgway | (New Directions) | A very odd detective story, that should end up convicting the killer, but instead, may convict the detectives. |
|
Going Home A Novel of Survival |
A. American | (Plume) | A prepper, making his way through Florida After the American infrastructure has gone AWOL. |
| Visit Sunny Chernobyl* And Other Adventures in The World's Most Polluted Places |
Andrew Blackwell | (Rodale) | Touristy visits to Chernobyl, Alberta, Port Arthur and four other disastervilles |
| Capturing the Light The Birth of Photography, A True Story of Genius and Rivalry |
Roget Watson, Helen Rappaport | (St. Martin's Press) | Two rather odd gentlemen, In 1830s-1840s Europe Striving to capture an image Perhaps of themselves. |
| A Chronicle of Jazz* | Mervyn Cooke | (Oxford) | An extremely detailed and lovely picture of jazz from the beginning of the 20th Century until now. |
| The Best American
Magazine Writing --- 2013 |
James Bennet, Editor | (Columbia) | Eighteen essays, articles, stories, and other ephemera Drawn form the most popular magazines in America |
| When Cripples Get Arrested | Mike Ervin | [Article] | They don't send in the paddy-wagons For disabled picketers --- they just Give them traffic tickets. Here's why. |
| Working in a Chinese Computer Destruction Factory | Andrew Blackwell | [Reading] | The author visits a home factory for dismantling computers In one of the most polluted parts of China. |
| The End of Slavery | Charles C. Mann | [Reading] | One of the great capital-intensive markets Which was closed down in but five years. |
| The Decline Of Violence | Charles C. Mann | [Reading] | The coming, scarcely noticed, of the end Of virulent wars and the random destruction of whole peoples. |
| When You Return | Ellen Bass | [Poetry] | A poem of love for the missing. |
| Feldwebel Zorn's Motorcycle | Senaden Musabegovic | [Poetry] | Another poem of love gone missing. |
| My Mother Wears
Combat Boots[G] A Parenting Guide for the Rest of Us |
Jessica Mills | (AK) | A mother guide for the now generation. |
| Written Lives[G] | Javier Marías | (New Directions) | Nabokov, Kenneth Rexroth, D. H. Lawrence, Umberto Eco described, precisely and beautifully |