Sally Rooney, Jane Austen, sexual tension and the 'grand philosophical project'

‘I think if there’s a well-enough rendered sense of sexual tension, the reader will read almost anything.” –Sally Rooney, speaking on The Cut podcast

Hello friends,

Welcome to March. Hope you are finding some beauty and hope where you can, as spring arrives to the northern hemisphere. 

Today, we begin a new month here at the Austen Connection and it’s Jane Austen TV month! We have some fun conversations about the Austen and Austen-adjacent television that’s unrolling in the weeks ahead. And all that’s …