Deborah YaffeNov 2, 2015Famous non-friend likes AustenIt’s always nice to find Austen fans in semi-unexpected places. Today’s entry comes from this recent interview with Joshua Malina, a star...
Deborah YaffeOct 22, 2015James on JaneThe popular, movie-inflected view of Jane Austen is so thoroughly imbued with stereotypical, romanticized girliness – fair maidens,...
Deborah YaffeSep 21, 2015Janeite retirementOne of the many pleasures of researching Among the Janeites was the chance it gave me to meet fellow Austen fans from across the country...
Deborah YaffeSep 10, 2015Books to flee byIn 1951, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, Soviet spies burrowed deep into the British Foreign Office, realized they were on the brink of...
Deborah YaffeAug 10, 2015Miss Price goes to WashingtonJane Austen has been a semi-regular presence in the New York Times Book Review’s weekly “By the Book” feature, in which noted authors...
Deborah YaffeJul 20, 2015May Jane be with youFandom need not be monogamous. “It's apparent that there is a fannish personality,” the dance historian Allison Thompson told me when I...
Deborah YaffeJun 1, 2015The Jane Austen diet planWe Janeites hail our beloved author as a witty social critic, a source of romantic escapism, a harbinger of a more civilized age, a...
Deborah YaffeApr 20, 2015Take a letter, Ms. AustenI write letters. Admittedly, I wrote more of them before the advent of email, but I still try to send my oldest friends handwritten...
Deborah YaffeApr 6, 2015Calling all Austen nerdsGiven the attention lavished on filmed Jane Austen adaptations in the past twenty years, it was probably inevitable that, amid this...