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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

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 7, 2023

P&P Barbie

The summer’s biggest movie, Greta Gerwig’s delightful and touching Barbie, knows women well—really, really well. The proof? Mr. Darcy...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 12, 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

Jun 27, 2022

That trailer

During an overseas visit earlier this month, I was too swamped with family business to follow the news with my usual attention. This...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 7, 2019

Oh, those clothes. .

The success of the screen adaptations of Jane Austen’s novels has been attributed to many factors: romantic plots, attractive stars,...