Deborah YaffeFeb 13, 2023TriggeredIn my junior year of college, the assigned reading for my women’s studies class included Gloria Naylor’s 1982 novel The Women of Brewster...
Deborah YaffeFeb 9, 2023The Cher ManifestoWhen Karl Marx wrote about the decadence of capitalism, he may have been imagining something like our current moment, in which a slew of...
Deborah YaffeFeb 6, 2023Hey, cupcakeLast month, noting the pending release of a Pride and Prejudice screen update entitled Townhouse Confidential, I reported, “My...
Deborah YaffeFeb 2, 2023A decade onTen years ago this weekend, I published my first blog post—the first of many, as it turned out. (Today’s entry is #1,049, if you’re...
Deborah YaffeJan 30, 2023Tom Lefroy, commitment-phobe?Consider the term “fuckboy”: --“A womanizer; a young man who sleeps with women without any intention of having a relationship with them ....
Deborah YaffeJan 26, 2023Jane Austen, matchmakerThe characters that Teri Roberts and Rachel Walton portrayed in the faux-Regency world of the Austen-themed online role-playing game...
Deborah YaffeJan 23, 2023Pride & Prejudice & Real EstateSo many updated versions of Jane Austen’s novels have come my way over the past couple of decades that when I hear of a new one these...
Deborah YaffeJan 19, 2023Jane Austen's desk, onlineThe Jane Austen Summer Program, whose four-day symposium in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, combines academic study of Austen with...
Deborah YaffeJan 16, 2023Another Janeite goodbyeThe game of adapting Jane Austen’s novels for the screen has drawn some gifted and illustrious players. In 1940, the renowned novelist...