Anthony Lane in a fantastic review essay in the The New Yorker : “Byron: A Life in Ten Letters”…is a compact biography, elegantly structured…. Each letter affords Stauffer a chance for a ruminative riff on…Byron’s history” newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

Big week for emergence

THE GOOD WIFE is one of the unsung masterpieces of its vaunted era of TV, and Robert & Michelle King two of its wiliest artists. For the NYT Magazine (!!!), I wrote about ELSBETH, a rogue spin-off that's become self-aware. cc: Robert King Carrie Preston nytimes.com/2024/03/21/mag…

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for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.

Freud’s aspirations at their most admirable:

It’s publication day! I’m giving away gratis copies to the first ten grad students who share this post. Others can still get 30% off with code P325 when ordering directly from Princeton University Press here: press.princeton.edu/books/paperbac…

I love this.

Join the staff of a magazine that was just won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence in Literature, Science, and Politics. We're hoping to hire quickly, so apply soon: sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search…

On today’s new episode of Selected Essays, @JessSwoboda and Zach Fine talk to Emily Ogden about Elizabeth Hardwick’s essay on Bernard Berenson, the art of portraiture, and writing personally rather than confessionally: thepointmag.buzzsprout.com/1791285/154183…

In March we are publishing On Breathing by Jamieson Webster, a beautiful, expansive essay about care, dependence, and what it means to breathe in an age of environmental catastrophe peninsulapress.co.uk/products/on-br…

Digital galleys are HERE for Close Reading for the 21C, which I co-edited with Johanna Winant. You know you want it, want to review it. Write to barbara_tonetti [at] press [dot] princeton [dot] edu. Look at that gorgeous slate of contributors! Get it.