Amy Poehler and Julia Louis-Dreyfus put on their fandom hats on the Good Hang podcast this week, singing the praises of a comedian who paved the way for their Saturday Night Live success. Jane Curtin ...

Reflect on the author’s timeless virtue and witty brilliance just ahead of her birthday this month. Depiction of Jane Austen from ‘A Memoir of Jane Austen’ (1871), written by her nephew James Edward ...

Few figures in history have done more to change our understanding of the natural world. We celebrate Jane Goodall’s remarkable life with rare images from the National Geographic archives. Ethologist, ...

Why do the works of Jane Austen still hold so much appeal 250 years after her birth? We ask members of the Jane Austen Society of North America as well as writers Sandra Cisneros and Brandon Taylor.