Deborah YaffeDec 19, 2022SugarplumsAs Christmas approaches, the internet has been filling our Janeite stockings with tidbits of Austen-related news: --Ahoy, there: Last...
Deborah YaffeDec 15, 2022High-camp Jane AustenAfter a year that brought not one but two same-sex updates of Pride and Prejudice, we probably don’t need further proof that the queering...
Deborah YaffeDec 12, 2022Boy meets pigBy now, we know that the Pride and Prejudice formula—opposites attract, enemies to lovers, snobby-meets-snarky—accommodates many...
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 YaffeOct 17, 2022SnoozePeople who hate Jane Austen – yes, such benighted folks do exist – sometimes claim that she is so-o-o boring that she causes eyelids to...
Deborah YaffeOct 13, 2022The pendulum swingsThe smashing success of Netflix’s Bridgerton has ushered in a new era of multiracial casting in Regency costume dramas. This is good...
Deborah YaffeSep 26, 2022EnsemblesOver the summer, when Janeites weren’t arguing about the controversial new Netflix adaptation of Persuasion, many were praising the...
Deborah YaffeSep 22, 2022A milestone farewellMGM’s 1940 movie of Pride and Prejudice was the first screen adaptation of a Jane Austen novel, and with its Victorian fashions,...