Listening ears
For the past week or so, my Google alert has been crowded with versions of the same story: William and Kate—that’s the Prince and...
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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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Deborah Yaffe
- Feb 27
Matilda's reading list
Earlier this month, the Telegraph reported that, in reissuing books by the beloved-but-controversial children’s writer Roald Dahl, his...
Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 29, 2022
Dinner time
A common Janeite fantasy goes like this: You meet Jane Austen. Naturally, she finds you interesting and delightful. You get her take on,...
Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 26, 2022
Unintimidated
Just in case all the usual reasons to admire Ukrainians -- courage, grit, unshakeable commitment to democracy – aren’t enough for you,...
Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 19, 2022
Sugarplums
As Christmas approaches, the internet has been filling our Janeite stockings with tidbits of Austen-related news: --Ahoy, there: Last...
Deborah Yaffe
- Nov 21, 2022
Taking refuge in Austen
Six years ago, when I heard about a young Syrian woman reading Jane Austen while enduring the bombing of Aleppo, I saw the story as a...
Deborah Yaffe
- Sep 8, 2022
Laying the table
From time to time, a particular news item brings a snippet of Jane Austen’s wisdom forcibly to mind – such a snippet as, say, “One half...
Deborah Yaffe
- Aug 25, 2022
Jane Austen triage
The first sentence of Pride and Prejudice turns up everywhere, most commonly a) when a journalist who doesn’t know much about Jane Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jul 4, 2022
The computer-generated Jane Austen
It’s Independence Day here in the United States. What better occasion to consider the question of how soon our computer overlords will...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 30, 2022
High stakes, low stakes
In Jane Austen’s novels, the stakes of the courtship game could hardly be higher: Her heroines face irrevocable decisions that will...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 19, 2022
Sticker shock
Apparently, it’s not just gas and hotel rooms: Pandemic-era inflation has also hit the rare book market. Or so we learned from a recent...
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