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As we near the end of 2015, and thus the culmination of the worldwide commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the publication of part two of Don Quixote, a few comments regarding the general theme of this year's issues of Cervantes are in order. Readers may have noticed that the journal did not draw any specific attention to the 1615 second part during this commemoration year. There are two primary reasons for this. First, and foremost, given the prominence of Don Quixote within the field of Cervantes studies, there has rarely been an issue of this journal that was not devoted primarily to Cervantes's two-part masterpiece, and so a special focus on part two did not seem especially urgent, despite the anniversary year. Second, and again given the general prominence of Don Quixote in the field, we did not wish to delay the publication (by at least a year, if not more) of...