Deborah YaffeJul 10, 2014My share in the conversationThe writer and blogger Sarah Emsley is two months into “An Invitation to Mansfield Park,” her year-long series of weekly guest posts...
Deborah YaffeJul 3, 2014Strange business, indeedJudging from the near-absence of any mention of our blessed land in the works of Jane Austen, it appears that our beloved author didn’t...
Deborah YaffeJun 30, 2014Jane Austen, imagined friendYesterday’s New York Times Book Review ran an article by poet and critic Adam Kirsch responding to the question, “When we read fiction,...
Deborah YaffeJun 23, 2014Late arrival at the Janeite partyFrom time to time, it’s useful to recall that not everyone knows as much about Jane Austen as we Janeites do. Last week’s salutary...
Deborah YaffeJun 12, 2014Highlighting the highlightedMore fun with data! A bright young reporter decided to mine the little-known trove of info that is Amazon’s list of the passages most...
Deborah YaffeJun 5, 2014Comma-counting across the centuriesI’m a punctuation geek, I must admit. A fellow reporter on my college newspaper once claimed to have heard me declare, with a passion...
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 8, 2014Pop the champagne corks for Mansfield Park's 200thTomorrow is Mansfield Park’s two hundredth birthday, and what’s a birthday without a party? Our host is the writer and blogger Sarah...
Deborah YaffeApr 14, 2014Pet Jane Austen Peeve #37: Quoting Out of Context“Jane Austen said it best,” a blogger for the Christian Post asserts in a recent piece on Biblical approaches to friendship. " ‘There is...