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Hidden Heroines February 14, 2025
Anyone who thinks there’s no possible connection between Jane Austen and Las Vegas doesn’t know that Rebecca Romney, author of Jane Austen’s Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend, has, to her credit—if...
REVIEW: Hateful Jane Austen January 09, 2025
Hate is bad. Minnesota governor and failed vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz declared during the 2024 presidential campaign that there is “no guarantee to free speech on . . . hate speech.” Meanwhile the nation’s most successful entertainment comp...
On Unaffected Pleasure October 08, 2024
I like writing advice. For two or three years now, I have even kept a running list of storytelling principles in a document on my phone: “Exposition creates drama”; “Tell one story well rather than several less well”; “If the end isn’t working, the p...
Jane Austen’s American Spirit August 22, 2024
Jane Austen is England’s brightest literary jewel. The slightly upper-crust characters in her novels spend most of their time in the most English of pursuits: drinking tea, visiting country houses, and gossiping about their neighbors. Austen herself ...
