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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
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Deborah Yaffe
May 8, 2023
Ubiquitous Austen
Back in 2004, when Margaret Sullivan launched the indispensable AustenBlog, she chose a tagline that reflected Jane Austen’s pop-culture...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 4, 2023
Our robot overlords read Jane Austen
It’s a truism that the best way to improve your writing is to read the work of good writers. Apparently, this maxim holds true even for...
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Deborah Yaffe
Mar 30, 2023
Walk the line
It’s not every day that Jane Austen gets name-checked in a newspaper article that also mentions Tucker Carlson, Ron DeSantis, and the...
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Deborah Yaffe
Mar 27, 2023
Down Under Austen
Over in the opposite hemisphere of the globe, it seems, they’re reading a lot of Jane Austen. Or so we might conclude from a couple of...
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Deborah Yaffe
Mar 23, 2023
Listening ears
For the past week or so, my Google alert has been crowded with versions of the same story: William and Kate—that’s the Prince and...
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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...
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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 29, 2022
Dinner time
A common Janeite fantasy goes like this: You meet Jane Austen. Naturally, she finds you interesting and delightful. You get her take on,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 26, 2022
Unintimidated
Just in case all the usual reasons to admire Ukrainians -- courage, grit, unshakeable commitment to democracy – aren’t enough for you,...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 19, 2022
Sugarplums
As Christmas approaches, the internet has been filling our Janeite stockings with tidbits of Austen-related news: --Ahoy, there: Last...
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Deborah Yaffe
Nov 21, 2022
Taking refuge in Austen
Six years ago, when I heard about a young Syrian woman reading Jane Austen while enduring the bombing of Aleppo, I saw the story as a...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 8, 2022
Laying the table
From time to time, a particular news item brings a snippet of Jane Austen’s wisdom forcibly to mind – such a snippet as, say, “One half...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 5, 2022
Aging out
Last week, a beautiful young woman ended her longstanding romantic relationship with a good-looking guy old enough to be her father. Or...
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