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Volume 77, No. 2 · 2026

Table of Contents

1 A New Era for the JNL by Matthew M. Davis

Articles and Talks

1 A Much Bigger Bibliography of Johnsonian Studies by Jack Lynch

2 Richard Savage’s Tragedy of Sir Thomas Overbury: Johnson’s Critique and the Manuscript Revision by Roy Rasmussen

Interview

1 Interview with Composer Judith Bingham by Matthew M. Davis

Report

1 The 31st Annual Seminar of the Johnson Society of Australia by Paul Tankard

Notes and Queries

1 A Singular Letter from my Library: James Boswell to Ralph Churton, April 5, 1792 by Loren Rothschild

2 Johnson’s Reading for the Dictionary: Upon the Spanish Invasion by Matthew M. Davis

Johnsoniana

1 Two Engravings of Johnson by the Brothers Dalziel by Matthew M. Davis

2 Copilot at the Easel: A Gallery of AI-Generated Images of Johnson, with Commentary from Eighteenth-Century Scholars by Matthew M. Davis

3 Johnson (and Boswell) by the Book by Matthew M. Davis

4 Johnsonian Gleanings from Print and Streaming Media, 2024-26 by The Editors

Book Reviews

1 The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Johnson, by Robert DeMaria and Dan Hitchens by J. T. Scanlan

2 Early English Periodicals and Early Modern Social Media, by Margaret J. M. Ezell by Robert DeMaria, Jr.

3 Writerly Hate in Eighteenth-Century Britain, by Thomas Leonard-Roy by Robert G. Walker

4 The Enlightenment: An Idea and Its History, by J. C. D. Clark and Enlightened Oxford: The University and the Cultural and Political Life of Eighteenth-Century Britain and Beyond, by Nigel Aston by David Womersley

5 Jane Austen’s Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to Find the Women Writers who Shaped a Legend, by Rebecca Romney by Lisa Berglund