“I prefer walking,” declares Anne Elliot, the heroine of Jane Austen’s “Persuasion.” To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Austen’s birth, my husband and I decided to channel her ...

Jane Austen Wrecked My Life sort of takes asks the question, “What if a Jane Austen superfan was a writer and thrust into a Jane Austen story herself?” The movie takes place in the present day ...

One of gaming's most fascinating urban legends becomes reality in a new novel published on April 29 by Simon & Schuster imprint Gallery Books. Polybius, the debut novel by Collin Armstrong ...

A young military man asks a woman to dance, but they’re in for a bumpy ride in this story adapted from a novel by Stefan Zweig. By Glenn Kenny When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

the present in 1830 and the past when Jane and Cassandra were young. Masterpiece Keeley Hawes as Cassandra Austen. Both the show, and the book it was based upon, Gill Hornby's 2020 novel ...

It’s almost as if Ishikawa, eager to do the source material justice, fears that inviting any ambiguity will fail the mystery propelling Ishiguro’s novel. But a little uncertainty can be ...

Her novel “Sold on a Monday” was inspired by a real newspaper photo of children under a sign offering them for sale. “Bridge of Scarlet Leaves” followed the non-Japanese women who ...

race and class in ways that bring to mind a modern day Jane Austen. The British Nigerian novelist Helen Oyeyemi ought to be much better known. Her latest novel however screams ‘commercial break ...

Bay Area rain has an insidious way of creeping into the bones — of people, of buildings. When I lived there, my bathroom maintained a clammy topicality, even in drought months. Once, a strip of ...