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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

Nov 30, 2023

Second chances

July 1997. A lavish birthday party for a controversial royal paramour. Her old flame and current lover, the future king of England, rises...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 19, 2023

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

Apr 3, 2023

Star attraction

Jane Austen has had friends in high places for a very long time. In 1815, she famously accepted an offer (one of those offers you can’t...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 27, 2023

Matilda's reading list

Earlier this month, the Telegraph reported that, in reissuing books by the beloved-but-controversial children’s writer Roald Dahl, his...