Deborah YaffeFeb 24, 2014Martin Amis: Saved by Jane AustenI’m not a Martin Amis fan – The Rachel Papers so repulsed me that I’ve never cracked open another of his novels – but this interview...
Deborah YaffeDec 19, 2013Jane Austen movies: not the same as Jane Austen booksLook, it’s fine with me if your knowledge of Jane Austen is based on the movies, not the books. No problem. I love (many of) the movies...
Deborah YaffeNov 7, 2013Judging books by their coversNot too long ago – OK, it was last month, but I only just noticed – New York magazine ran a feature on the runaway popularity of...
Deborah YaffeSep 19, 2013Hey JanePride and Prejudice is Jane Austen’s most popular novel. It’s the one that gets assigned in high school, makes the top-novels-of-all-time...
Deborah YaffeJun 13, 2013Minneapolis ahoy!I had an unbreakable date at 1 pm yesterday: that was when online registration opened for this September’s Annual General Meeting of the...
Deborah YaffeJun 3, 2013Beautiful LizzyWhy is everyone so convinced that Elizabeth Bennet isn’t beautiful? This past weekend, Deborah Moggach, the screenwriter for the 2005...
Deborah YaffeMay 23, 2013Jane Austen, by the bookLast Sunday, the British novelist Hilary Mantel was featured in the New York Times Book Review’s weekly "By the Book" feature, in which...
Deborah YaffeMay 9, 2013Can't anyone kill this beast?Janeite news of the week is the apparent resurrection – cue undead jokes here – of the filmed version of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,...
Deborah YaffeMar 25, 2013The gratifications of delayed gratificationThe wild success of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, the web series updating Pride and Prejudice to contemporary California, has gotten me...