Represent
Representation is a hot topic in literary circles these days, as publishers reckon (late, slowly, and imperfectly) with their long...
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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
- Jun 19
Using up the leftovers
Before leaving on vacation, I always try to clean out my refrigerator—no point in coming home to sour milk and moldy vegetables. Since I...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jun 1
Death of an unabashed Janeite
Martin Amis’ death last month at the age of seventy-three didn’t hit me as hard as it did the legions of bookish lads who fell for his...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 25
How P&P came to be
It’s a great time for programming at Jane Austen’s House, the cottage in Chawton, Hampshire, where Austen wrote or revised all six of her...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 22
Listening pleasure
It’s been a sadly long time since I strolled through the garden at Jane Austen’s House, the cottage in Chawton, Hampshire, where Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 15
Being Mr. Wickham, again
Over the past four years, the British actor Adrian Lukis has spent a lot of time being Mr. Wickham. In late 2019, Lukis – who, as...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 11
Trouble at Lyme
Mr. Darcy, aka Colin Firth, is riding a white horse when he comes home to Pemberley, aka Lyme Park, in the BBC’s iconic 1995 adaptation...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 4
Our robot overlords read Jane Austen
It’s a truism that the best way to improve your writing is to read the work of good writers. Apparently, this maxim holds true even for...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 1
The unwritten manuscript
The untimely death last year of the acclaimed historical novelist Hilary Mantel was immediately recognized as a tragic loss for the world...
Deborah Yaffe
- Apr 27
Austen in the dreamscape
Australians may have a complicated relationship with Britain, their one-time mother country, but no such ambivalence seems to pervade...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 30
Walk the line
It’s not every day that Jane Austen gets name-checked in a newspaper article that also mentions Tucker Carlson, Ron DeSantis, and the...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 27
Down Under Austen
Over in the opposite hemisphere of the globe, it seems, they’re reading a lot of Jane Austen. Or so we might conclude from a couple of...
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