Reboot, booted
Back in late 2019, when corona was just a neighborhood in Queens, the news broke that Hollywood was considering a television reboot of...
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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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Deborah Yaffe
- Apr 22, 2021
Costume drama
It’s Oscar night on Sunday, and even though this year will inevitably lack the red-carpet glamor of pre-pandemic times, I will avidly...
Deborah Yaffe
- Apr 1, 2021
On this day in 1816. . .
Sixty-second in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. From time to time, you will hear writers claim that they...
Deborah Yaffe
- Feb 15, 2021
The Emma Trap
What is the nature of inspiration? How elastic is its definition? How large a distance can stretch between inspiration and inspiree...
Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 31, 2020
Goodbye at last, 2020
A year ago, I confidently predicted a 2020 filled with the usual array of Austen events: “Teas, balls, fairs, festivals, conferences,...
Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 24, 2020
New Year's present
On March 2, I reported the happy news that a theatrical adaptation of Emma – written by Kate Hamill, the actor/playwright whose madcap...
Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 17, 2020
Eternal verities
Despite the strangeness of this year, some eternal verities remain. Snowflakes. Evergreens. Misquoting Jane Austen. A few highlights of...
Deborah Yaffe
- Nov 26, 2020
Sauce for the goose
Like many of us in the Age of COVID, I’ll be hosting an unusually small Thanksgiving party tonight – just the four members of my...
Deborah Yaffe
- Nov 23, 2020
On this day in 1815. . .
Fifty-eighth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Although Jane Austen was a professional writer who spent six...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 10, 2020
Color-coding
Better late than never: Although it appeared more than a month ago, I’ve only just stumbled across a cogent and fascinating analysis of...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 6, 2020
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
- Mar 18, 2020
Silver linings
There’s an upside to everything, apparently – even a global pandemic that threatens to sicken and perhaps kill millions while tanking the...
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