I am very pleased to announce that our project of listing the New Yorker essays in Houghton Mifflin’s “Best American Essays” series has moved from “spotty” to “thoroughgoing.” We were fortunate to spark a “completist mania” (his words) in stalwart Emdashes supporter Benjamin Chambers, who doggedly tracked down the nine missing years for us. We are so vastly grateful to Benjamin for helping us close out that post for good.

When he’s not giving Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon a close reading (West wrote 24 items for The New Yorker, ahem), Benjamin is working his way through every single essay in these volumes, a foolhardy but surely a rewarding undertaking. We’ll have further updates from his reading progress (on the essays, not on West) in the near future. Benjamin runs the award-winning literary website The King’s English, which we urge you to check out. —Martin Schneider