Vol. 123 •
May 1996
• No. 10
Correspondence
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McNICOLL, RON & REEVES, DAVID K. & HART, BROTHER PATRICK & SR., DONALD F. CUDDIHEE & O'ROURKE, BRIDGET & DUFFY, CHARLES F. & CUMMINGS, MICHAEL J. & JR., EDWARD McGLYNN GAFFNEY & RIGA, PETER J.
Editorial Marriage's true ends Would same-sex marriage correct an injustice and deepen our understanding of marriage? Skepticism is in order
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Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
A mother's death Job asked a good question about human suffering: Why?
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Callahan, Sidney
Face it, we've lost
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Jr, David R Carlin
CATCHING THE HEART OFF GUARD Seamus Heaney reinvents air, light, water, swans
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Keen, Suzanne
NOT ALL BOOKS ARE CREATED EQUAL
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Byrne, Katharine
The Shadow Han by Mary Gordon Mary Gordon tries to come to grips with the facts of her father's life
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Maitland, Sara
The Vulnerable Child by Richard Weissbourd The Abolition of Marriage by Maggie Gallagher
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Whitehead, Barbara Dafoe
Mississippi by Anthony Walton
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Coles, Robert
Integrity by Stephen L Carter
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Wycliff, Don
Dancing after Hours by Andre Dubus
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Dolan, Neal
The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris Our regular booknotes writer, Lawrence S Cunningham, writes, "Our hoary reactions to virgin saints, celibacy, the misogynist streak in our ascetical tradition are 'deconstructed' by the author's angle of vision, which looks with new but hardly naive eyes"
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Cunningham, Lawrence S
Toasting rye bread
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Schultz, Valerie
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