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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

On and off

For those of us who love our Jane Austen adaptations, the coronavirus quarantine has been the best of times and the worst of times. The...

Deborah Yaffe

May 6, 2020

Immortal, beloved

Twenty-five years ago this summer, we Janeites flocked to movie theaters to see a brand-new modernization of Emma, set among affluent...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 11, 2020

Hands off!

Why do people keep trying to mess with Clueless? Amy Heckerling’s 1995 movie, which updated the story of Emma to high school in Beverly...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 14, 2019

The sound of (Austen) music

Music plays intermittent cameo roles in Jane Austen’s novels: think of Mary Bennet delighting us long enough in Pride and Prejudice, or...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 7, 2019

Kids in America

Over the weekend, I went to see Clueless: The Musical. It made me miss Clueless: The Movie. Which was probably not the intended effect....

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 7, 2019

Never too much Jane

Sometimes it feels as if only die-hard Janeites are still thinking about Jane Austen. And other times – like these past few weeks --...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 31, 2018

Austen karaoke

Recently – OK, it was two weeks ago – I found occasion to mention an old journalists’ joke: that three examples of a phenomenon...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 15, 2018

Trend-spotting

We journalists like to joke that once you have three examples of something – avocado toast! Suburban sex-toy parties! -- you can write a...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 1, 2018

Austen comic books 2.0

Given the ubiquity of comic books based on Jane Austen’s novels, I suppose it’s not surprising that we’ve now moved on to Version 2.0:...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 19, 2017

Lip gloss meets hamentashen

The holiday of Purim, which begins on Wednesday night, is the Jewish version of Mardi Gras: to commemorate the Biblical tale of how Queen...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 20, 2016

The Austen Catch-Up Project: As If!

I love Clueless. Doesn’t everyone? Last summer marked the twentieth anniversary of the film’s release, and the milestone inspired a slew...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 29, 2016

It was 20 years ago today (almost). . .

The year 1995 marked what I’ve called the Big Bang of contemporary Jane Austen fandom: Colin Firth’s wet-shirt scene in the BBC’s famous...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 15, 2015