For some Janeites, fandom entails an intense engagement with the material details of Austen’s world. These Janeites are the people who...

As luck would have it, my family’s Thanksgiving guest list this year will once again consist of none but our four selves. And just as we...

Six years ago, when I heard about a young Syrian woman reading Jane Austen while enduring the bombing of Aleppo, I saw the story as a...

As regular blog readers know, among my favorite pastimes is mocking the internet for its habit of attributing quotations from screen...

The years 1995-96 yielded a bumper crop of filmed versions of Jane Austen’s novels, designed for both big and small screens. The...

Last year, Alicia Silverstone got on TikTok and promptly started turning out Clueless-themed videos featuring her ten-year-old son. Now...

Today, it’s called the slush pile: the tottering heap of unsolicited manuscripts that clog the mailboxes—these days, the email boxes—of...

Eighty-first in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Sometimes you read a famous author’s correspondence and...