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The Marrying Kind

From the January 1996 Print Edition

Virtually Normal: An Argument About Homosexuality . By Andrew Sullivan Knopf, 209 pages, $22 What would life be like if we were not allowed to marry? That is the question at the heart of Andrew Sullivan’s first book, Virtually Normal . In a sharp departure from the brash tone of the New . . . . Continue Reading »

Baby Talk

From the August/September 1992 Print Edition

Roger Rosenblatt wants you to know that he has solved the abortion problem. Really. He’s written a whole book about it called Life Itself. Of course, the middle third of the book is just a summary of other people’s research on the history of abortion from the beginning of time, and . . . . Continue Reading »