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.
Posted 11.28.2011
Who would dare to write a sequel to "Pride and Prejudice" - and turn it into a murder mystery? How about a world-famous novelist who is old enough ...
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...
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.
AP | Posted 09.14.2011
LONDON — An unfinished early Jane Austen manuscript sold at auction in London on Thursday for almost $1.6 million, triple its highest pre-sale e...
Zoe Triska | Posted 08.24.2011
It's a very personal question to ask but we didn't let that stop us, and readers really seemed to want to let us know which book characters they'd mo...
Posted 08.02.2011
This week, we asked Huffington Post readers to let us know what book characters they would love to be best friends with. While we received some respon...
Posted 07.26.2011
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortun...
flavorwire.com | Posted 06.21.2011
For the past seven years, Katie Cromwell and Jensen Carp at Gallery 1988 have been showcasing pop culture-themed artwork to a new generation of LA res...
Nava Atlas | Posted 06.07.2011
As anticipation builds around the wide release of the latest Jane Eyre film adaptation, it seems only fair that Charlotte Brontë, author of the beloved novel, gets her say.
The Guardian | Jonathan Coe | Posted 06.04.2011
In the course of their famous book-length interview, François Truffaut once asked Alfred Hitchcock about his approach to literary adaptation, and Hit...
Posted 05.27.2011
Penguin Books (@penguinbooks) recently tweeted, "So who is up for admitting what books they should have read by now? #abouttimeiread" We've all go...
The Washington Post | Monica Hesse, Thursday, March 17, 12:56 PM | Posted 05.25.2011
Enough with the empire waistlines, the sparkly dialogue, the pride, the prejudice, the Colin Firth trudging out of the lake again and again on the lat...
Posted 05.25.2011
The new preview for Keira Knightley's upcoming Chanel ad gives a nice behind-the-scenes look at the Joe Wright (Atonement, Pride and Prejudice) direct...
The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011
We asked HuffPost Readers to tell us which books they reread the most. But we also wondered which library books people most frequently reread. It wasn...
Writer's Relief | Posted 05.25.2011
From Writer's Relief: Whether you're pitching a book to a literary agent, trying to lure readers to dig into their pockets and buy your book, or hopi...
The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011
During Sunday's Super Bowl, the entertainment wasn't solely coming from the game. Twitter tag #JaneAustenAtTheSuperBowl had literature fans enthralled...
Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011
In The King's Speech, Firth plays Bertie, a life-long stutterer on a quest to find his voice, especially since he suddenly becomes crowned King George VI of England in 1936.
Posted 05.25.2011
(From: ArtFixDaily) Exceptional beauty, rarity, and historical significance are among the factors that drive collectors to compete furiously for art, ...
Posted 05.25.2011
The deranged cult hit 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' is set to take a bite out of the big screen -- and now, it's getting a star cast to fuel its o...
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Today scholars, readers and insanely devoted fans alike celebrate the birth of British novelist Jane Austen 235 years later. Since penning classics th...
npr.org | Morning Edition | Posted 05.25.2011
But now -- though it may pain die-hard Austen fans -- it turns out that Austen may have simply had a very good editor. Kathryn Sutherland, a professor...
The Guardian | Posted 05.25.2011
It is a truth universally acknowledged that academic research into art and literature is always misrepresented in the press. Or, if you believe the st...
The Guardian | Posted 05.25.2011
One of the many books I have been rereading between bouts of Powell is "Persuasion." If you read Jane Austen more or less annually, as I have done sin...
Alan Elsner | Posted 02.27.2012