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October 25, 2013

v.140 n.17
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Undomesticated

The trademark Powers irony is at work even in his daughter’s narrative arc, for sweet as the award must have been, it was hardly a launch to smooth sailing.
By Patricia Hampl
October 10, 2013
Book Essay
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Old Masters, New Digs

After an extensive renovation and reinstallation, the Met's European paintings galleries reopened in May. The collection now has fully one-third more space.
By Leo J. O’Donovan
October 10, 2013
Arts
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The Limits of Candor

"For Discrimination" offers the bravest and most honest defense of affirmative action in a long time (maybe ever), and for that we are in Randall Kennedy’s debt.
By William Galston
October 10, 2013
Books
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Buried Traumas

Four decades after Franco’s death, relics of the past are finding their way into Spain's museums, where they can be both preserved and politically neutralized.
By James J. Sheehan
October 10, 2013
Books
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Fleeing from Triumph

From the roughly seventeen hundred letters Orwell wrote, Peter Davison has now made a generous selection, annotated with insight and without pedantry.
By William H. Pritchard
October 10, 2013
Books
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