Books

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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.
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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.
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A Doomed Project?

'Kantian Reason and Hegelian Spirit' is distinguished by both its intellectual competence and it narrative power.
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We & They

The tug-and-pull of polarities forms an enduring reality of public discourse. David Cannadine’s stimulating book attests to the workings of this remorseless process.
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Unsung

Rouben Mamoulian, original director of the movie version of 'Porgy and Bess,' is forgotten. In '“On My Way,”' Joseph Horowitz endeavors to restore his reputation.
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Sincerely, Alice

Cynthia Ozick (among many others) has called Munro “our Chekhov,” but "Dear Life" prompts the question: Who will be our Munro?