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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

Dec 21, 2020

No rom, no com

The opening credits of Modern Persuasion, which began streaming Friday on a small screen near you, scroll through a litany of actors,...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 4, 2020

Deck the halls

After the year we’ve had, we’re all going to deserve a holiday-season treat. And it looks like the Janeites among us will be getting one....

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 29, 2018

Unpersuaded

Pride and Prejudice isn’t just Jane Austen’s most famous and popular novel. Of all her stories, it’s also the best suited to modern-dress...