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October 9, 2009 / Volume CXXXVI, Number 17  

UPFRONT

EDITORIAL

One in Six

COLUMNISTS

A Package Deal

John Garvey

FEATURES

ARTICLE

America’s Blind Spot

Daniel Callahan

Cross Examination

Sister X

Something Freely Given

Margaret Visser

VERDICTS

BOOKS

Reviewed by John Starrels

The Book of William

How Shakespeare’s First Folio Conquered the World
By Paul Collins

Reviewed by Celia Wren

Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty

Emerging Conflicts
By Edited by Doug Laycock, Anthony Picarello Jr., and Robin Fretwell Wilson

Reviewed by Robert K. Vischer

A Jury of Her Peers

American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx
By Elaine Showalter

Reviewed by Melissa M. Matthes

A Great Idea at the Time

The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books
By Alex Beam

Reviewed by Peter Schwendener

THE LAST WORD

Irena

Patrick Henry