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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 25

Words with Jane

My name is Deborah, and I am a puzzle addict. My morning begins with a brisk jaunt through a trio of New York Times offerings— Wordle ,...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 22

In for the quill

Once upon a time, the hottest thing in video gaming was the Nintendo Entertainment System. Back then, the pixelated graphics necessitated...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 12, 2023

Bowled over

In the early days of our romance, my now-husband, a Brit with a deep fondness for the sports of his island home, tried valiantly to...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 26, 2023

Jane Austen, matchmaker

The characters that Teri Roberts and Rachel Walton portrayed in the faux-Regency world of the Austen-themed online role-playing game...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 22, 2022

Thin gruel

Early last Tuesday morning, I opened up my phone to Wordle, the now-famous daily word-finding puzzle, and typed my usual starting guess:...

Deborah Yaffe

May 30, 2022

High stakes, low stakes

In Jane Austen’s novels, the stakes of the courtship game could hardly be higher: Her heroines face irrevocable decisions that will...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 24, 2022

Love hurts

The sting of rejection is an emotion whose nuances Jane Austen understood well – whether the agony of the jilted Marianne Dashwood (“Good...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 7, 2022

Of castles and chakras

When NBC announced last month that it had changed the name of its new Regency-themed dating show from Pride and Prejudice: An Experiment...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 21, 2022

Courtin' time

Finally, NBC has released a trailer for The Courtship, the upcoming reality-TV show featuring Austen-era costumes and dating rituals, and...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 7, 2022

Break out the popcorn

March is shaping up to be a big month for Janeites who like Austen-related TV and aren’t too picky about its relationship to anything...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 12, 2021

Deck the halls

It was Christmas in July for those of us who spend our days looking for pop-culture recognition of Jane Austen’s genius: * July 14:...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 15, 2021

On fire

Nearly two years ago, word trickled out that a same-sex update of Pride and Prejudice, set on the gay mecca of New York’s Fire Island,...