Deborah YaffeJun 26, 2014Miss Manners, JaneiteI suppose it is not exactly surprising that Miss Manners, the doyenne of How To Behave Correctly, is a Jane Austen reader. Still, as a...
Deborah YaffeJun 16, 2014Ready for Lizzy?Janeites come in all political flavors, and I have no desire to split our cheerful community along partisan lines. But I hope we can all...
Deborah YaffeApr 7, 2014Life among the ruinsAustralia’s Sydney Morning Herald ran an engrossing interview this past weekend with Caroline Knight, a great-greatgreatgreatI'velostcoun...
Deborah YaffeMar 17, 2014Timeless (and international) AustenThe tirelessly energetic, not-yet-two-year-old Jane Austen Book Club of Mumbai, India, has issued its first publication, a forty-page...
Deborah YaffeFeb 24, 2014Martin Amis: Saved by Jane AustenI’m not a Martin Amis fan – The Rachel Papers so repulsed me that I’ve never cracked open another of his novels – but this interview...
Deborah YaffeNov 15, 2013Among the Janeites on TVThose wacky Jane Austen fans were the subject of a segment of ABC's Nightline, which aired last night (early this morning, actually) and...
Deborah YaffeOct 28, 2013Dissed by the Austen ProjectJoanna Trollope’s modern-dress adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, the first in a planned series of six Austen updates by popular...
Deborah YaffeSep 19, 2013Hey JanePride and Prejudice is Jane Austen’s most popular novel. It’s the one that gets assigned in high school, makes the top-novels-of-all-time...
Deborah YaffeMay 23, 2013Jane Austen, by the bookLast Sunday, the British novelist Hilary Mantel was featured in the New York Times Book Review’s weekly "By the Book" feature, in which...