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Journalist and author
The Line of Thought
. . . to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.
--Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
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Eighty years on
The year that began yesterday will not bring us any important Jane Austen anniversaries: The bicentenaries of her death and of the...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 2, 2020
Fruitcake
As the holidays approach, you may be bracing for the arrival of that winter perennial, the fruitcake -- baked months earlier, soaked in...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 9, 2019
Strange bedfellows
By now, we’ve gotten used to seeing Jane Austen in rather. . . um . . . interesting company. She’s been paired with zombies and sea...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 4, 2019
Forty years and counting
It’s that time again, Janeites: The Jane Austen Society of North America is holding its Annual General Meeting (AGM) over the next four...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 3, 2019
Keeping up with the Janeites
I don’t speak Kardashian. I have trouble distinguishing among the K-named females of the clan, disentangling the one who married Kanye...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 30, 2019
Janeite on the Potomac, Part II
Bipartisanship is sadly rare in Washington these days, so it’s refreshing to find one instance of agreement across the aisle, even in...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 26, 2019
Pictures at an exhibition
Is Michelle Obama a Janeite? As far as I’m aware, no documentation exists to settle the question either way. But circumstantial evidence...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 16, 2019
A Janeite in STEM
All the talk these days about the decline of the humanities can be pretty depressing for us English-major types, who persist in believing...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 2, 2019
Color-coordinated Austen
It’s been clear for a while now that Jane Austen has evolved from revered writer into lifestyle brand: FamousJane, bringing you Classy...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 26, 2019
Janeite on the Potomac
In the most famous passage of perhaps the most famous essay ever written about Jane Austen, the psychologist and literary critic D.W....
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 19, 2019
Popping the question
According to my parents, one of the most important promises they made to each other upon their marriage was this one: no surprise...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 8, 2019
Beach reading
It’s always encouraging when excellent contemporary writers turn out to have great taste in literature (i.e., taste that agrees with my...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 11, 2019
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