One of the many pleasures of researching Among the Janeites was the chance it gave me to meet fellow Austen fans from across the country...

As far as I know, David Foster Wallace had nothing to say about Jane Austen. (Admittedly, I don’t know for sure, since I’ve never read a...

The big Jane Austen news this week: the evil, soulless folks who get their jollies – and their profits – by infecting your computer with...

Halfway to the finish line, the Austen Project is looking increasingly like the Austen Fiasco. The Austen Project, as you may recall, is...

I really should stop. Don’t torture myself, right? Just surrender my Jane Austen Critical Faculties license, turn in my Janeite Purist...

Was it just last month that I was pointing out the folly of banging my head against the brick wall of inaccurate Austen quotation? Yes,...

I suppose I should just stop banging my head against the same old brick wall. But really: if you’re going to go to the trouble of...

I’m a punctuation geek, I must admit. A fellow reporter on my college newspaper once claimed to have heard me declare, with a passion...

More international Jane Austen: an Indian TV channel is launching a show “based loosely” on Sense and Sensibility. (Not to be confused, I...

Look, 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...

Joanna Trollope’s modern-dress adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, the first in a planned series of six Austen updates by popular...

Pride 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...