The real appeal of the show lies in nostalgia for a bygone era, with all its accompanying delights: the gorgeous clothing, the multi-course meals, the simple rituals of daily life. The writers, with their cheap tricks, only muddy it up.
Jezebel | Posted 05.23.2012
Book clubs can be a wonderful way for like-minded people to get together and share their love of literature. Maybe you're long out of college and miss...
The Huffington Post | Kathleen Massara | Posted 04.17.2012
One of the best things about the Portland/DC-based band Wild Flag is their amazing interpersonal dynamic and chemistry. This is why HuffPost Arts deci...
Susan Celia Greenfield | Posted 05.01.2012
The bad mother-daughter bond is an old familiar story. And I mean old. Throughout narrative history, mother characters have been evil or dead or both.
Michael Gilmour | Posted 03.21.2012
My question is whether or not there is a way to read 1 Corinthians 9:9-10 that does justice to Paul while minimizing bias against nonhuman species among his readers?
Dave Astor | Posted 03.06.2012
Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is an epic tragedy that leaves readers shocked and awed. But, along the way, there are some delightfully funny interludes -- most notably the pre-voyage scene in which Ishmael and Queequeg end up in the same bedroom.
Alan Elsner | Posted 02.27.2012
Jane Austen was smart. She left the characters just where they needed to be left, with their lives ahead of them. Whatever good and bad those lives would bring, she left to our imagination.
David Finkle | Posted 02.19.2012
Maybe in declaring my dissatisfaction with the 81-year-old James's newest work, I'm committing a not uncommon reviewer's sin: reviewing the book I think ought to have been written.
Deirdre Le Faye | Posted 02.15.2012
Most of them are addressed to her beloved sister Cassandra, and afford a unique and irresistible insight into the daily life of the novelist: intimate and gossipy, observant and informative - the equivalent of telephone calls between the sisters - and read much like the novels themselves.
Angela Flournoy | Posted 02.12.2012
With time running out until Christmas, we thought we'd share some of our favorite reads from the past year. Great books make great gifts.
Lev Raphael | Posted 02.05.2012
I fell in love repeatedly in college. With authors. I was an English major and reeled from one new passion to another. Some of them feel like youthf...
Madeleine Crum | Posted 11.16.2011
Until yesterday, Jane Austen was thought to have died of bovine tuberculosis or Hodgkin's lymphoma, a strain of cancer. But crime writer, Lindsay Ashf...
Posted 11.15.2011
From Flavorwire: Nearly two centuries after her death, it’s still unclear what killed Jane Austen. Biographers have attributed Austen’s demise ...
AP | By HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 12.17.2011
NEW YORK -- P.D. James could hold back no longer. The 91-year-old detective novelist said Wednesday she was glad to finally complete a long-desired p...
Suzanne Morrison | Posted 12.13.2011
Television. It's the greatest invention ever. Who needs Omega fats and deep breathing and flowing linen when you can wear the leggings & ripped t-shirt you slept in while gnawing on fancy beef jerky?
Posted 12.11.2011
By Christine Spines via Word & Film Stephenie Meyer’s decision to produce “Austenland” — a film about a woman so obsessed with the taciturn...
Lev Raphael | Posted 11.19.2011
Austen excelled at wielding the skewer. Lady Catherine de Bourgh is an obvious example in Pride and Prejudice. But the book holds worse.
John Farr | Posted 11.19.2011
Almost fifteen years after Titanic, with six Oscar nods and one win to her credit, Kate Winslet is an actress at the peak of her powers -- no longer a precocious ingénue, but a professional who's conscientiously developed her craft.
George Heymont | Posted 11.04.2011
Two Bay area theatre companies are currently staging literary classics. One has put a daring new spin on a 400-year-old Shakespearean play; the other is staging a British adaptation of a beloved novel that is celebrating the 200th anniversary of its publication.
Lev Raphael | Posted 10.31.2011
Jane Austen is so popular these days she's probably been a write-in candidate in more than one election. Who knows, she might even have won some of them. I'd vote for her.
Posted 10.09.2011
A writer's life revolves around always knowing what to say and how to say it. But in the face of death, you'd think fear, pain and pressure would trum...
Lev Raphael | Posted 09.25.2011
I've published twenty books in genres from memoir to mystery but I never thought of doing an Austen mashup until I read Pride and Prejudice and Zombie...
Pamela Newton | Posted 09.27.2011
It has recently occurred to me that email and text messaging are actually a quaint throwback to the good old days of interpersonal communication.
Anisha Lakhani | Posted 09.17.2011
"I want a Jane Austen wedding," American television correspondent and anchor Gigi Stone declared shortly after Ian Woods proposed to her last year. Wo...
Pamela Newton | Posted 05.24.2012