In defence of Netflix’s Persuasion
No, I haven’t read Jane Austen’s novel. Must that disqualify me from enjoying this joyful and self-aware parody?
ByJane Austen
How did Netflix’s Persuasion get the novel so wrong?
This adaptation slaps a sassy millennial tone on Austen’s most mature work, in an embarrassing attempt to force the brashest…
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Please, no more adaptations of Jane Austen
Do we really need the new Netflix version of Persuasion, which has seemingly confused Anne Elliot with Fleabag?
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Philippa Perry Q&A: “I used to love Jane Austen – now I think she was a snob“
The psychotherapist on admiring Mhairi Black, Chopin and why her Mastermind subject would be Jane Austen.
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SRSLY #124: A Jane Austen Special – Emma
On the pop culture podcast this week: Caroline and Anna examine the major adaptations of Jane Austen's iconic novel, Emma.
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Claire Tomalin’s Diary: Going to prison and talking about Jane Austen
Planting trees in the yard is a poor subsitute for reducing the prison population.
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Tory politician Andrea Leadsom calls Jane Austen one of our “greatest living authors”
A zombie author for a zombie government.
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Whit Stillman on Love & Friendship, his postmodern love letter to Jane Austen
Austen’s work has already been a launch-pad for literary spin-offs, but Stillman's film – and accompanying novel – do something intriguingly new.
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“Just try to be a real person”: James Fleet on doing Austen on screen
Ryan Gilbey talks to the actor James Fleet, who stars in Whit Stillman’s Love & Friendship – his third Austen film adaptation…
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Love & Friendship, based on an early Austen novella, rewrites the period drama rule book
Based on Jane Austen’s little-known early novella Lady Susan, Whit Stillman’s new film Love & Friendship is anything but a straightforward adaptation.
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Austenmania: why 1995 was the year Jane Austen catapulted into pop culture
Twenty years on from Austen’s cinematic rise, her influence shows no sign of waning.
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The Jane Austen Manifesto: How we can save the world by writing like Austen
The internet would be a much nicer place if everyone spoke like a Jane Austen character. Here’s how you go…
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Val McDermid’s Northanger Abbey and the struggle to breathe new life into Jane Austen
In the next instalment of the “Austen Project”, the Scottish crime writer gives her modern-day take on the novel formerly…
ByNo, Jane Austen was not a game theorist
Using science to explain art is a good way to butcher both, and is intellectually bankrupt to boot.
ByJoanna Trollope: What Jane Austen knew about class
Pretension remains the greatest social crime – and authenticity the greatest virtue.
ByWhy did we actually ban exporting Jane Austen’s ring?
Who decides what is of "outstanding national importance"?
ByMalcolm Bradbury on Jane Austen: “Today nobody can dismiss Miss Austen”
On the 200th anniversary of "Pride and Prejudice", we republish a 1997 article by Malcolm Bradbury on the popular manifestations…
ByStop messing with Jane Austen!
Murder mysteries, zombie horror stories, eye-watering erotic novels - why does everyone rewrite Pride & Prejudice?
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