Deborah YaffeNov 28, 2022Regency realityFor some Janeites, fandom entails an intense engagement with the material details of Austen’s world. These Janeites are the people who...
Deborah YaffeNov 24, 2022QuackAs 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...
Deborah YaffeNov 21, 2022Taking refuge in AustenSix 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...
Deborah YaffeNov 17, 2022Not so timelessAs regular blog readers know, among my favorite pastimes is mocking the internet for its habit of attributing quotations from screen...
Deborah YaffeNov 14, 2022PassagesThe years 1995-96 yielded a bumper crop of filmed versions of Jane Austen’s novels, designed for both big and small screens. The...
Deborah YaffeNov 10, 2022Baby DionneLast year, Alicia Silverstone got on TikTok and promptly started turning out Clueless-themed videos featuring her ten-year-old son. Now...
Deborah YaffeNov 7, 2022SlushToday, it’s called the slush pile: the tottering heap of unsolicited manuscripts that clog the mailboxes—these days, the email boxes—of...
Deborah YaffeNov 3, 2022On this day in 1813. . .Eighty-first in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Sometimes you read a famous author’s correspondence and...
