Deborah YaffeMay 27, 2013Sex in Jane AustenThe British novelist Howard Jacobson has done us all a service by pointing out the sex in Jane Austen. Not the obvious but offstage sex:...
Deborah YaffeMay 23, 2013Jane Austen, by the bookLast Sunday, the British novelist Hilary Mantel was featured in the New York Times Book Review’s weekly "By the Book" feature, in which...
Deborah YaffeMay 20, 2013Scones reduxTwo weeks ago, I pointed out that, despite the Emporia Gazette's claims to the contrary, none of Jane Austen’s characters ever eats a...
Deborah YaffeMay 16, 2013Welcome, SanditonWelcome to Sanditon, the new web series from the creators of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, premiered its first video Monday (with another...
Deborah YaffeMay 13, 2013Jane Austen in IndiaHow awesome is this? A sixteen-year-old girl in Mumbai, India, has founded the city’s first Jane Austen club. "I've been fascinated by...
Deborah YaffeMay 9, 2013Can't anyone kill this beast?Janeite news of the week is the apparent resurrection – cue undead jokes here – of the filmed version of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,...
Deborah YaffeMay 6, 2013No scones hereA cooking story from the Emporia Gazette of Kansas recently popped up on my Jane Austen Google alert. “I have long adored scones,” wrote...
Deborah YaffeMay 2, 2013Among the Janeites -- available August 6The release date for Among the Janeites has been moved up about a month, to August 6 – we’re hoping to catch a bit of the publicity wave...
Deborah YaffeApr 29, 2013Jane Austen -- not a game theoristMichael Suk-Young Chwe’s Jane Austen, Game Theorist has made quite a splash since its publication last week: a story on the front page of...