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Persuasion review – Dakota Johnson looks the part as Jane Austen gets Fleabagged

Classic story of a young woman talked out of marrying her true love is turned into a smirking, heavy-handed romcom

The Guardian - UK

Dangerous attractions and revolutionary sympathies: 5 Jane Austen facts revealed by music

Jane Austen played the piano from the age of about ten. Her family inherited some of her books of sheet music, including hundreds of manuscripts in her hand as well as printed music.

The Conversation

Godmersham Park by Gill Hornby review – a page-turning Austen romp

This fictionalised life of the governess employed by Jane Austen’s brother wittily toys with the conventions of the genre

The Guardian - UK

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A look under the bonnet: why are we still so obsessed with the Regency era?

Whether it’s the new Persuasion adaptation or the counterfactuals of Bridgerton and, er, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, we just can’t seem to shake Jane Austen’s world of dances and drawing rooms

The Guardian - UK

Like ‘Bridgerton’? Wait till you catch ‘Mr. Malcolm’s List’

Years before “Bridgerton” and the Regency-era fashion moment it helped inspire, director Emma Holly Jones was dreaming of an early 19th century romantic comedy with a diverse cast

The Independent UK

Chris Evans may need to rein in TFI Friday reboot

He suggests that the chat and music show could be livestreamed, but will celebrities today be as much fun?

The Guardian - UK

The 40 best novels to read before you die OLD

Losing yourself in a great novel is one of life’s joys. Here our critics Ceri Radford and Chris Harvey pick the books you need to read

The Independent UK

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Art, freedom and drag invasions: the history of New York's Fire Island as a gay sanctuary

Recently screened at the Sydney Film Festival, Fire Island is a rom-com inspired by Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, the film breaking traditional conventions to feature gay romance as the plot.

The Conversation

How queer Asian American rom-com 'Fire Island' became summer's sexiest breakout hit

Joel Kim Booster and Bowen Yang remember that first trip, years ago, to the beachy New York LGBTQ resort that would inspire the Hulu rom-com, "Fire Island." Before playing BFFs Noah (Booster) and Howie (Yang) in the film, who find unexpected romances while vacationing at the Long Island party destination,…

Los Angeles Times

A visit to the Jane Austen Centre in Bath, England

I was visiting my grandmother in England when we planned a day in Bath with my best friend who was doing a Ph.D. in Southampton. Both of us being bookworms, we were excited for the Jane Austen Centre. We booked our tickets in advance online, though I looked it up…

The Times of India

Why does the trailer for Netflix’s Persuasion adaptation feel like a personal affront?

The new trailer for Netflix’s Austen adaptation starring Dakota Johnson frames heroine Anne Elliot as a quippy, messy rom-com lead - a move which undercuts everything that’s so moving about the original novel

Evening Standard

My worst moment: ‘Fire Island’ star Margaret Cho on wearing all white and experiencing a truly crappy situation

The Hulu romantic comedy “Fire Island” takes Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” and puts a modern gay spin on it, both fizzy and incisive about classism and racism. Margaret Cho co-stars in a role that is part den mother, part provider of vacation housing.

Chicago Tribune

Netflix unveil trailer for Jane Austen drama Persuasion starring Dakota Johnson

Persuasion is an upcoming period drama film, based on the novel of the same name by Jane Austen, and stars Dakota Johnson, Cosmo Jarvis and Richard E. Grant

Daily Mirror

Five books to read while in the Derbyshire countryside

The Derbyshire countryside, in England’s East Midlands, is a region that has inspired writers – both classic and contemporary. The juxtaposition of rolling hills, stark moorland and craggy summits play backdrop to numerous novels in a variety of genres.

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We taught an AI to impersonate Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde – here's what it revealed about sentience

Nay, nay, I say! This cannot be,

Orlando Sentinel

‘Father of the Bride’ director talks remaking a classic for a new era

Though there are plenty of exciting new films coming to movie theaters this summer, timely updates of timeless stories have become something of a niche streaming specialty in 2022. From the Jane Austen-inspired “Fire Island” on Hulu to the most recent “Cheaper by the Dozen” update on Disney+, classic stories…

Salon

Our favorite new Darcy is on Fire Island

How a queer, Asian lawyer gives the role that launched a thousand Firths a run for its money

Salon

"Fire Island" creates a new Bechdel test

Writer Hanna Rosin ignited a firestorm when she bemoaned the lack of women in the film focused on queer Asian men

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Los Angeles Times

Alison Bechdel has spoken: Leave 'Fire Island' alone

The stars of "Fire Island" appear to be taking pride in the "F-" that the new film scored on the Bechdel test.

The Independent UK

Bechdel Test founder makes amendment to give Fire Island a passing score amid viral Twitter debate

A reporter sparked uproar when she criticised the film by giving it an ‘F- on the Bechdel Test’

Salon

How Fire Island does Pride & Prejudice

From commentaries on class and wealth to a dastardly modern-day Wickham, the Hulu film does Jane Austen proud

Los Angeles Times

How the queer summer rom-com 'Fire Island' found new meaning in 'Pride and Prejudice'

Jennifer Ehle. Keira Knightley. And now, Joel Kim Booster: Into the pantheon of "Pride and Prejudice" adaptations, queer rom-com "Fire Island" has arrived to give Jane Austenites a summer to remember — and the next great Elizabeth Bennet.

Chicago Tribune

As screenwriter and star of Hulu’s ‘Fire Island,’ Joel Kim Booster puts the Pride in ‘Pride and Prejudice’

CHICAGO — The romantic comedy “Fire Island” is a very gay, very horny, very charming riff on Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” set on present-day Fire Island in New York. There is banter aplenty, a lot of it dirty. Both sweet and filled with spiky humor, it comes from screenwriter…

Tribune News Service

Review: 'Fire Island' is a witty, gay take on Jane Austen

The quick-witted "Fire Island" is like Jane Austen, if the 19th-century writer's novels contained more booty shorts and recreational drugs.

The Independent UK

Fire Island review: A sweet, queer romcom that takes aim at Jane Austen’s ‘hetero nonsense’

Joel Kim Booster’s breezy reimagining places ‘Pride & Prejudice’ in the context of contemporary gay culture

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