Deborah YaffeSep 26, 2019Janeite on the Potomac, Part IIBipartisanship is sadly rare in Washington these days, so it’s refreshing to find one instance of agreement across the aisle, even in...
Deborah YaffeJul 29, 2019Greatest Hits, Part IThe Emmy nominations were announced recently, and all the brouhaha over Game of Thrones et al. has left me hankering to award some prizes...
Deborah YaffeJul 8, 2019Oh, those clothes. . The success of the screen adaptations of Jane Austen’s novels has been attributed to many factors: romantic plots, attractive stars,...
Deborah YaffeApr 8, 2019Jane Austen's first criticFor Janeites, it’s salt rubbed in a wound: the news that scholars will soon be able to inspect a fascinating trove of letters from an...
Deborah YaffeDec 31, 2018NineteenNineteen is a number much on our collective minds today, as we prepare to usher in 2019, the last year of the second decade of the...
Deborah YaffeDec 13, 2018Desperately seeking romance in Jane AustenVirginia Woolf famously wrote of Jane Austen that “of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness.” Let...
Deborah YaffeOct 1, 2018MismatchJane Austen’s novels are filled with marital mismatches. Clever, sardonic Mr. Bennet treats Mrs. Bennet with thinly veiled disrespect. In...
Deborah YaffeAug 2, 2018International (mis)understandingWith their film adaptations and their fanfics and their Austen societies, residents of the Indian subcontinent seem to love Jane Austen...
Deborah YaffeMay 21, 2018Time for a mental health dayIt’s been quite a while since I last discussed the unfortunate phenomenon of faux-Jane Austen quotes, usually originating in Jane Austen...