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Journalist and author
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
Jul 4, 2022
The computer-generated Jane Austen
It’s Independence Day here in the United States. What better occasion to consider the question of how soon our computer overlords will...
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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...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 19, 2022
Sticker shock
Apparently, it’s not just gas and hotel rooms: Pandemic-era inflation has also hit the rare book market. Or so we learned from a recent...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 5, 2022
While the bombs fall
Back in 2016, the BBC interviewed a young Syrian woman sheltering at home during the government’s brutal bombing of the city of Aleppo....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 31, 2022
Jane all around
Jane Austen turns up in the most unexpected places, doesn’t she? Here’s where she’s been in the past week: --Jane Austen and true crime:...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 24, 2022
Pride and penitentiary
The white supremacist sympathizer assigned to read Pride and Prejudice will now have enough time to get through all six of Jane Austen’s...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 10, 2022
Pop quiz
Back in my school days, we eager young grade-grubbers used to trade advice on which teachers marked harshly and which were more...
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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 20, 2021
Austen women
Jane Austen isn’t just for girls, of course, but the Austenesque tidbits that the internet has tossed my way lately happen to focus on...
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