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Persuasion
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?
July 8, 2020
Alex Shephard
The Problem With Yascha Mounk’s Persuasion
His new platform aims “to defend free speech and free inquiry against all its enemies.” But is it really just obsessed with cancel culture?
January 30, 1924
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf on Jane Austen
A review of the publication of R.W. Chapman’s edition of the Novels of Jane Austen, in Five Volumes.
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