From the Editors

We are delighted to welcome some additions to our editorial staff of the Book Review. Gretchen Hermes, our newly appointed manuscripts editor, brings a depth of unique experience and skills at the nexus of psychoanalysis, basic and clinical research, clinical practice (especially in the area of substance use disorders), and the humanities. You will find the mark of her careful and thoughtful work throughout these pages. Elizabeth Hamlin, our newly named acquisitions editor, brings a breadth of knowledge of psychoanalytic literature and analytically adjacent topics, and has a keen eye for the creative and expansive mission of the Book Review. We are also pleased to welcome Konstantinos Taliourids, Book Review candidate liaison, whose enthusiasm, passion for psychoanalysis, and great fund of knowledge will enrich these pages.

As we broaden our editorial group, our vision for the Book Review is to continue to invite spirted and creative conversations about current analytic thinking, reflective engagement, creative approaches, and intellectual challenge. We welcome new voices as well as familiar ones, for analytic dialogue, exploration, and fresh understanding. We offer an opportunity to discover new titles, broad areas of study and interest, and novel interpretations of familiar concepts.

We are also pleased to introduce you to a new occasional column we’re calling “What I’m Reading Now.” In these brief pieces, analysts will reflect on books that have captivated them, offering an analytic window into their “nightstand” volumes, sharing the unique pleasures of engaging with excellent writing by powerful literary voices probing complex contemporary themes in literature, fiction, nonfiction, the arts. As analysts, what moves us in a text? How do our favorite books enrich us, and allow us a pathway to a new experience, insight, or recognition? Reading good writing is a joy unto itself; reading good analytical writing,

like reading poetry and fiction, heightens what Thomas