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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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Voices
Inscriptions in old books have an eerie quality--those glimpses of forgotten lives and echoes of silenced voices. So it’s no wonder that...
Deborah Yaffe
4 days ago
For sale
Few pastimes give me as much pleasure as the ogling of unaffordable real estate. It’s a bonus when said real estate has Jane Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 14
Girls on film
Three-quarters of the twenty-first century lies ahead of us, but already the New York Times is hard at work on clickbait Best of the...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 4
Soaked and sodden
In Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice , no one gets wet, except for poor Jane Bennet, soaked (offstage) while riding to Netherfield...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 31
Janeite fun for all ages
Although Jane Austen didn’t write for children, many Janeites discover Austen during their tween or teen years, around the age when...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 28
Hatching time
Like periodical cicadas, Austen adaptations come around on a predictable schedule. Every ten or fifteen years, a newly hatched crew of...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 24
Souvenirs for the bookish
Halfway through this year of Austen 250 celebrations, you may be considering what sort of merch would make an appropriate souvenir of the...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 17
Regency runway
I know very little about fashion, as my invariably pedestrian wardrobe choices make immediately clear to everyone I meet. (Who needs Elle...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 10
Second banana no more
Ella Bruccoleri is a hard-working young British actress whose roles so far have been distinctly second banana. I’ve seen her as a...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 16
Ball of the year?
Hard as we Americans try, there are some things we just can’t do as well as the British. Last month, as blog readers will recall ,...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 12
P&P, Vanity Fair edition
When Pride and Prejudice was published in early 1813, Jane Austen had a few regrets. “It wants shade,” she wrote to her sister,...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 9
Dancing as if it's 2005
Twenty years, to quote Captain Wentworth, is “a period, indeed”—more than enough time “to change every pore of one’s skin, & every...
Deborah Yaffe
May 19
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