Deborah YaffeFeb 22In for the quillOnce upon a time, the hottest thing in video gaming was the Nintendo Entertainment System. Back then, the pixelated graphics necessitated...
Deborah YaffeOct 12, 2023Bowled overIn the early days of our romance, my now-husband, a Brit with a deep fondness for the sports of his island home, tried valiantly to...
Deborah YaffeJan 26, 2023Jane Austen, matchmakerThe characters that Teri Roberts and Rachel Walton portrayed in the faux-Regency world of the Austen-themed online role-playing game...
Deborah YaffeAug 22, 2022Thin gruelEarly last Tuesday morning, I opened up my phone to Wordle, the now-famous daily word-finding puzzle, and typed my usual starting guess:...
Deborah YaffeMay 30, 2022High stakes, low stakesIn Jane Austen’s novels, the stakes of the courtship game could hardly be higher: Her heroines face irrevocable decisions that will...
Deborah YaffeMar 24, 2022Love hurtsThe sting of rejection is an emotion whose nuances Jane Austen understood well – whether the agony of the jilted Marianne Dashwood (“Good...
Deborah YaffeMar 7, 2022Of castles and chakrasWhen NBC announced last month that it had changed the name of its new Regency-themed dating show from Pride and Prejudice: An Experiment...
Deborah YaffeFeb 21, 2022Courtin' timeFinally, NBC has released a trailer for The Courtship, the upcoming reality-TV show featuring Austen-era costumes and dating rituals, and...
Deborah YaffeFeb 7, 2022Break out the popcornMarch is shaping up to be a big month for Janeites who like Austen-related TV and aren’t too picky about its relationship to anything...