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Journalist and author
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
Aug 10, 2020
Parched
I haven’t set foot in a movie theater in five months. (March 7. Multiplex up the road from here. The new adaptation of Emma, a pretty...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jun 22, 2020
The Jane Austen Guide to Quarantine
For many of us, coronavirus quarantine has proved to be the perfect moment to reread Jane Austen. (Although, really, is there ever a bad...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 11, 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...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 7, 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...
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Deborah Yaffe
Mar 19, 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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Deborah Yaffe
Mar 12, 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...
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Deborah Yaffe
Feb 17, 2020
The big event
We’re just days away from one of the year’s big Janeite events: Friday’s U.S. opening of the new feature film adaptation of Emma, a week...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 9, 2020
Meg, Jo, Elinor, Marianne
Like all American girls, I loved Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, and when I shared it with my daughter many years after my first...
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Deborah Yaffe
Nov 25, 2019
Sneak previews
The new year is shaping up as a happy one for Janeites, at least American ones, since it will usher in two new Austen adaptations – the...
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Deborah Yaffe
Nov 14, 2019
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...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 14, 2019
Second bananas
We Janeites may love Austen’s heroes and heroines, but it’s her secondary characters who make us laugh out loud. Fanny Dashwood’s...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 7, 2019
Yet more on-screen Austen
I recognize that not everyone craves another Jane Austen-themed screen drama. Some may have balked at the all! sex! all! the! time! hype...
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