In the midst of everything, positive linguistics news continues to exist. We have learned that our recent alum Sam Al Khatib (PhD 2013) has published a book entitled Focus, Evaluativity, and Antonymy: A Study in the Semantics of Only and its Interaction with Gradable Antonyms — in the series Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy from Springer. Sam is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the CUNY Graduate Center. Congratulations, Sam!!