So sorry to hear of the death of George Craig, a lovely man and a brilliant translator of Samuel Beckett's letters for the Cambridge edition. Here is George (on the left) with Dan Gunn and Ciaran Hinds reading from the letters.

Congrats yet again Emma, good to see a fine book at paperback price.

Nice to mark this last of the 200th anniversary dates for Jane Austen. A good year for her, with many tributes and some fine scholarship (notably including from Devoney and from Jenny Davidson). x.com/devoneylooser/…

'For guidance on the path of reading John Keats, it'd be difficult to find a better Virgil for your journey than Susan Wolfson' - Romantic Circles

Congrats to everyone who successfully negotiated MLA travel last week. Those of us who were in Oxford UK for the British Society for C18 Studies conference enjoyed balmy weather by comparison.

Congrats to Peter Collister on his fine edition of Henry James's writings on art and drama, just given the 'Choice Outstanding Academic Title' accolade, and described in 'The Burlington Magazine' as 'a work of great scholarship'.

Very nice to see good coverage of CUP titles in Talia Schaffer's SEL review of C19 studies, including Francis O'Gorman's fine Companion to John Ruskin, 'a rich account of what modern readers get from this most complex and protean of Victorian thinkers'.

So very sad to hear of the death of Jenny Joseph, a very fine poet and a truly lovely lady.

Mark Offord's 'Wordsworth and the Art of Philosophical Travel' offers a 'deft convergence of the poetic, ecocritical and philosophical' - Talia Schaffer, SEL Review of Recent Studies in the Nineteenth Century.

Timely in this anniversary year to mention 'The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein', ed. Andrew Smith with a strong group of contributors offering 'cutting-edge ... articles on exciting new fields' - SEL Review of Recent Studies in the Nineteenth Century.

Nice to see that the top-selling Cambridge University Press book at MLA was Jenny Davidson's 'Reading Jane Austen' - congrats Jenny ...

Check out another fine review of the 'rich store of ideas, evidence, and interpretation' in Adriana Craciun's timely 'Writing Arctic Disaster: Authorship and Exploration', this time in the Journal of Canadian Studies. #franklinexpedition

Good to see Andrew Frisardi's brilliant translation of Dante's 'Convivio' now widely available in the UK, following appearance in North America before Christmas.

Congrats to Carolin Duttlinger and her fine team of contributors on 'Franz Kafka in Context', which sheds new light on the life and work of a famously complex figure.

Have much enjoyed making a CUP podcast with Sandy Spanier about The Letters of Ernest Hemingway vol 4, 1929-1931, including the success of 'Farewell to Arms' and why EH's cover-image face has a scar . Fascinating stuff.

Delightful to round off the excellent Sterne 250th anniversary conference with a session in which Claude Rawson and Pat Rogers recalled the 200th anniversary conference in 1968 - cue discussion of then and now ...

Hope friends and colleagues are enjoying ASECS in Orlando: do go to say hello to Bethany Thomas representing Cambridge University Press for the first time, and check out the CUP stand.

Delighted to see that Bethany is carrying on the CUP tradition of attendance at ASECS. Her first ASECS and hope it's an enjoyable one! x.com/Bethany_Thomas…

Exciting to see Eun Min's fine new study of the Chinese influence on eighteenth-century English literary culture, and a pretty book too. Congrats to her !!

Fascinated to read Rosemary Hill's BL lecture about women and fashion (see LRB 5 April). Why do women button to the left and men to the right? Because women were once expected to have someone do it for them so it had to be convenient for the dresser .. .