The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. first things senior editor Julia Yost joins in to discuss her new book, Jane Austen’s Darkness.
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Image by Ozias Humphry, public domain. Image cropped. Filter Added.
Intro music by Jack Bauerlein.
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