Deborah YaffeSep 4Victory lapLess than two weeks ago, apropos of my latest effort to stamp out the online plague of fake Jane Austen quotes, I wrote, “I like to...
Deborah YaffeAug 7P&P BarbieThe summer’s biggest movie, Greta Gerwig’s delightful and touching Barbie, knows women well—really, really well. The proof? Mr. Darcy...
Deborah YaffeAug 3ComplicationsIs Jane Austen: a) the patron saint of romantic love? or b) the avatar of hard-headed, pragmatic--even borderline-mercenary--marital...
Deborah YaffeJul 10Dear diaryLet me start by pointing out that I do understand the concept of clickbait. Really, I do. But still, I’m left breathless at the moxie of...
Deborah YaffeJun 29Misaligned starsFour months ago, as blog readers will recall, I turned to the internet for reading suggestions and discovered that my Zodiac sign...
Deborah YaffeJun 19Using up the leftoversBefore leaving on vacation, I always try to clean out my refrigerator—no point in coming home to sour milk and moldy vegetables. Since I...
Deborah YaffeJun 5Cracking Easter eggsBack in April, when a (supposed) first edition of Sense and Sensibility made a cameo appearance in the Apple soccer comedy Ted Lasso,...
Deborah YaffeMay 18Polite confusionTitles can’t be copyrighted, but usually, this isn’t a problem: No one is likely to mistake a classic Victorian novel for a 1970s boxing...
Deborah YaffeMay 8Ubiquitous AustenBack in 2004, when Margaret Sullivan launched the indispensable AustenBlog, she chose a tagline that reflected Jane Austen’s pop-culture...
Deborah YaffeMay 4Our robot overlords read Jane AustenIt’s a truism that the best way to improve your writing is to read the work of good writers. Apparently, this maxim holds true even for...
Deborah YaffeMar 30Walk the lineIt’s not every day that Jane Austen gets name-checked in a newspaper article that also mentions Tucker Carlson, Ron DeSantis, and the...
Deborah YaffeMar 27Down Under AustenOver in the opposite hemisphere of the globe, it seems, they’re reading a lot of Jane Austen. Or so we might conclude from a couple of...