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Jane Austen
July 15, 2022
Philippa Snow
Netflix’s Persuasion Is a Uniquely Brilliant Flavor of Bad
A new Jane Austen adaptation dares to ask: What if “Persuasion” took place not just in the early nineteenth century but at wine o’clock?
September 16, 2020
Jo Livingstone
The Personal History of David Copperfield and Emma Are Perfect Movies for a Pandemic
Recent adaptations of the Dickens and Austen novels teach us how to foster joy in a time of fear and contagion.
July 24, 2018
Jeet Heer
A debauched prince was the first person to buy a Jane Austen novel.
August 15, 2017
MagazineElaine Showalter
The Austenista
Does "Pride and Prejudice" contain subversive political messages?
February 5, 2016
Tim Grierson
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Rather a Dull Fight
This canny mash-up of classic literature and drive-in fright quickly plays out its one-note joke.
December 16, 2015
Alex Shephard
Let’s celebrate Jane Austen’s birthday by remembering the worst thing her name has ever been attached to.
December 16, 2015
Mikaela Lefrak
E.M. Forster geeked out over Jane Austen, just like us.
July 18, 2014
Hillary Kelly
Virginia Woolf's Belated Obituary for Jane Austen
What would Austen have written about if she'd lived a longer life?
March 18, 2014
Alexander Aciman
Literary Fan Fiction: John Banville Does Raymond Chandler
January 27, 2014
Michael Suk-Young Chwe, William Deresiewicz
Can You Apply Game Theory to Jane Austen?
January 19, 2014
William Deresiewicz
No, Jane Austen Was Not a Game Theorist
Using science to explain art is a good way to butcher both
November 8, 2013
Joanna Trollope
What Jane Austen Would Have Thought About the Kardashians
Pretension remains the greatest social crime—and authenticity the greatest virtue.
August 26, 2013
Hillary Kelly
Ten Other Posthumously Discovered Novels
Salinger isn't the only one
May 28, 2013
Leon Wieseltier
"Perhaps Culture is Now the Counterculture"
A Defense of the Humanities
December 7, 2012
Isaac Chotiner
V.S. Naipaul on the Arab Spring, Authors He Loathes, and the Books He will Never Write
December 7, 2012
Isaac Chotiner
V.S. Naipaul on the Arab Spring, Authors He Loathes, and the Books He Will Never Write
October 23, 2012
David Thomson
HBO's Creepy and Revealing Take on Hitchcock
October 5, 2012
The New Republic Staff
Jane Austen’s cult, Ikea’s invisible women, and virtual money: Today’s TNR Reader
February 23, 2011
Ruth Franklin
In the Margins
July 13, 2010
Adam Kirsch
The Prose and the Passion

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