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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

Jul 21, 2022

Something to talk about

Google the Omniscient doesn’t seem to know if it was Henry Ford, P.T. Barnum, or somebody else entirely who first declared, “I don’t care...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 18, 2022

In praise of repression

Early on in Netflix’s polarizing new adaptation of Persuasion, Anne Elliot leafs through a scrapbook in which she has preserved accounts...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 7, 2022

Damage control

You’re a couple of weeks away from premiering your new movie. Your core audience has been vacuuming up every scrap of news about the...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 27, 2022

That trailer

During an overseas visit earlier this month, I was too swamped with family business to follow the news with my usual attention. This...