The Latest Breaking News from Jane Austen

From the meaning of well-known scientific abbreviations to Oscar winners and more, this week's quiz aims to get you thinking

"Pride and Prejudice" is being remade again — this time as the queer rom-com "Fire Island," a feature-length film from Searchlight Pictures.

Unconditional government programmes such as universal child benefit work best to alleviate poverty, writes Jess Berentson-Shaw

Justin Young spoke with Salon about continuing Jane Austen with unexpected setbacks, character arcs and fandom

SAN DIEGO — You can't dress like them, even if you were willing to don the required undergarments. You can't dine like them, unless you have a generous staffing budget and an over-achieving metabolism. (So! Many! Cakes!) And you can't duel like them, no matter how much you loathe your…

Jeff James’s adaptation has voguing and a foam party - but doesn’t interrogate the novel’s more retrograde gender politics

The Argentinian’s kit, now up for auction despite his daughter questioning its authenticity, Colin Firth’s top … many would like to own a piece of history and good luck to anyone selling

French and Saunders front an old-school gagfest, while podcasting’s obsession with egotistical frauds and con artists continues

The Duchess of Cornwall toured the Hampshire home where Austen lived from 1809 to 1817.

American Nobel and Pulitzer prize-winner author takes her place

Despite the public outcry, viewers of Regency-era dramas are fine with fewer sex scenes, if it means more romance