Deborah YaffeMay 29, 2014JA makes the cutA flurry of excitement in the British press over the release of new curricular guidelines for the UK’s English literature exams for high...
Deborah YaffeMay 15, 2014Underwater AustenLast week, the U.S. Navy and its tech partner announced plans to outfit submarines with a brand-new secure e-book reader called the NeRD...
Deborah YaffeMay 12, 2014Meet me at the corner of Austen and BrontëIt’s true that I have no plans to move to Iowa. It’s true that I don’t really like sprawling five-bedroom houses in subdivisions so new...
Deborah YaffeApr 17, 2014Wearing JaneMaybe it’s just me, but when I clicked this link, which came to me via my “Jane Austen” Google alert, I laughed out loud: See, I read the...
Deborah YaffeApr 10, 2014Win big by reading Jane AustenShe’s a brilliant prose stylist, a peerless satirist, the creator of indelible characters. Yeah, yeah, but it turns out that the real...
Deborah YaffeApr 3, 2014How to write like AustenJane Austen’s writing routine: a model for us all? Apparently so, according to a new-ish book mentioned in a recent Harvard Business...
Deborah YaffeFeb 27, 2014Goofy Austen News; or, Any Link to Jane Will DoThere are weeks when all you hear about Jane Austen is staid, decorous stuff: the prospect of a new film adaptation, or the exhibit of a...
Deborah YaffeDec 30, 2013Jane Austen's 2013For someone who’s been dead since 1817, Jane Austen had a pretty good year in 2013. She was honored with a set of UK stamps, and her...
Deborah YaffeSep 2, 2013Catfight on the moors?Why do so many people who write about Jane Austen feel compelled to referee an imaginary smackdown between her and the Brontë sisters?...