Julieann Moore.Suddenly discovering you have a gluten allergy can make you feel like Pride and Prejudice's Elizabeth Bennett, realizing at long last that it's Mr. Darcy who gets her crinoline all stiff. It can be liberating. Next Monday, Tartine Bakery vet Julieann Moore will lead a class at ... More >>
Our critics weigh in on local theater
Ian McEwan's Atonement, now as a bodice-ripper
Musical version of Jane Austen classic is mostly sweet, empty-calorie fare
Ms. Austen has a fling in Becoming Jane
The summer season always brings out the worst in Hollywood, but there are also gems to be found
This Pride & Prejudice brings fresh passion to an old love story
Of lunchtime invitations, flip-flop flaps, and shortened first names
A new anthology argues that reading and writing still matter
Jane Austen goes Bollywood in Bride & Prejudice
Wherein our clubs columnist smacks right into Murphy's Law of Romance
Our critics weigh in on local theater
Our critics weigh in on local theatre
A group of friends acts out the tale of literature's favorite matchmaker
Our critics weigh in on local exhibitions
Films of the World, Unite!
Hanif Kureishi's new drama is like life, sharpened to its finest points
A new book magazine aims to be the Cliffs Notes of reviews
LaBute deprives viewers the passion of Byatt's book
Amelie serves up a daring, moving take on Jane Austen's best-loved heroine.
You don't have to be embarrassed to read romance novels anymore. With modern themes and better writing, Bay Area authors are helping to make the genre almost (gasp!) respectable.
At the Great Dickens Christmas Fair, 'tis always the season for historical fidelity
After years of creative drought, inspiration was again in long supply
Virginal Sacrifices and Live! Nude! Stupid!
Everything I need to know about high school I learned from the New Teen Cinema
Rural rites and upper-class slights in John Schlesinger's Cold Comfort Farm
In Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre, hope and histrionics carry on to the befuddled end
Sense and Sensibility is at once faithful to Austen's classic and powerfully cinematic
