Sightings 14/14

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

Feb 27, 2014

Goofy Austen News; or, Any Link to Jane Will Do

There are weeks when all you hear about Jane Austen is staid, decorous stuff: the prospect of a new film adaptation, or the exhibit of a...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 30, 2013

Jane Austen's 2013

For someone who’s been dead since 1817, Jane Austen had a pretty good year in 2013. She was honored with a set of UK stamps, and her...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 1, 2013

Catfight on the moors?

Why do so many people who write about Jane Austen feel compelled to referee an imaginary smackdown between her and the Brontë sisters?...

Deborah Yaffe

May 26, 2013

Sex in Jane Austen

The British novelist Howard Jacobson has done us all a service by pointing out the sex in Jane Austen. Not the obvious but offstage sex:...

Deborah Yaffe

May 22, 2013

Jane Austen, by the book

Last Sunday, the British novelist Hilary Mantel was featured in the New York Times Book Review’s weekly "By the Book" feature, in which...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 28, 2013

Jane Austen -- not a game theorist

Michael Suk-Young Chwe’s Jane Austen, Game Theorist has made quite a splash since its publication last week: a story on the front page of...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 7, 2013

A little bit of pasteboard

Not sure about these new Jane Austen stamps (designed by Angela Barrett) recently issued by Britain's Royal Mail, to commemorate the two...