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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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Recommended reading
In a world with so many books and so little time, reading recommendations--from critics, bloggers, celebrity talk-show hosts,...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 20, 2023
Speaking well enough to be unintelligible
A few weeks ago, the British press was suddenly awash in articles (for example, here, here and here) about the new! exciting! previously...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 16, 2023
Triggered
In 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 Yaffe
Feb 13, 2023
The Cher Manifesto
When Karl Marx wrote about the decadence of capitalism, he may have been imagining something like our current moment, in which a slew of...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 9, 2023
Hey, cupcake
Last month, noting the pending release of a Pride and Prejudice screen update entitled Townhouse Confidential, I reported, “My...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 6, 2023
A decade on
Ten 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 Yaffe
Feb 2, 2023
Tom 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 Yaffe
Jan 30, 2023
Jane Austen, matchmaker
The characters that Teri Roberts and Rachel Walton portrayed in the faux-Regency world of the Austen-themed online role-playing game...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 26, 2023
Pride & Prejudice & Real Estate
So 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 Yaffe
Jan 23, 2023
Jane Austen's desk, online
The Jane Austen Summer Program, whose four-day symposium in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, combines academic study of Austen with...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 19, 2023
Another Janeite goodbye
The game of adapting Jane Austen’s novels for the screen has drawn some gifted and illustrious players. In 1940, the renowned novelist...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 16, 2023
Alumni reunions
Over the holidays, my family settled in for a screening of that sublime romcom Notting Hill. When the movie ended (“I’m just a girl,...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 12, 2023
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