With the rom-com officially back in vogue thanks to summer hits like Crazy Rich Asians and Netflix’s Set It Up, it’s hard not to think back on the genre’s most recent heyday, the 1990s. The era of Meg Ryan, Julia Roberts, and Nora Ephron defined our modern idea of what a rom-com looks and feels like, but the actual…
It is a minor footnote in the story of Jane Austen that, despite writing so intimately and incisively about courtship and matters of the heart, she never married herself. And yet a recent Washington Post article, strangely scheduled to coincide with her birthday (December 16) and also the 200th anniversary of her…
Earlier this week, Jane Austen became the first woman writer to be featured on a bank note in the United Kingdom. The Pride And Prejudice author joins such other literary greats as Charles Dickens and William Shakespeare, though the Austen £10 banknote is the only one currently in circulation. At the unveiling, which…
Jane Austen is a goodly woman of one and forty, a fine and delicate comportment, an elasticity of mind, and who is dead. In her day, she has seen many a suitor, not all to her liking. Her works, gentle in their persuasion of love and refinement as life’s noble pursuits, have attracted many blushing attentions, from …
In our monthly book club, we discuss whatever we happen to be reading and ask everyone in the comments to do the same. What Are You Reading This Month?
Whit Stillman adapting Jane Austen feels at once apt and almost unnecessary. His previous films—obsessed as they are with manners, social status, and conversational diplomacy—come pretty close to fulfilling any need we might have for a modern-day Austen. Metropolitan’s characters even discuss Austen at length, arguing…
With Reading List, The A.V. Club asks one of our favorite pop-culture creators to describe a list of reading materials that are tied together by a singular theme.
Zombies on the prowl for “braaaains” could do much worse than Jane Austen’s witty and forward-thinking novel Pride And Prejudice. By combining one of the literary world’s favorite books with the horror staple, author Seth Grahame-Smith captured the zeitgeist of 2009, and a film deal quickly followed. Of course, the…
For whatever reason, Tumblr is pretty into Pride And Prejudice. Sure, most adaptations of the Jane Austen classic are cool and everything, but that still doesn’t really explain why the following DJ Snake-infused fan edit of the classic Lizzie Bennet v. Fitzwilliam Darcy scene from the Colin Firth movie adaptation…
Some of the best memes out there are the ones that make absolutely no sense. Take, for instance, “Pride And Prejudice 2005 + Onion Headlines.” Created by author and blogger KC Kahler, the three-part meme popped up on Tumblr recently and basically just consists of cropped Onion headlines strategically placed over…
Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: With Jessica Hausner’s peculiar period piece Amour Fou coming to theaters, we extend our hand to other 19th-century romances.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that every few years the public must be in want of another version of Pride And Prejudice. Since it was first published in 1811, Jane Austen’s novels have never been out of print. Deemed worthy of scholarly study in the 1940s, Austen’s work now threads a fine line between popular…
