Judging by her few surviving manuscripts, Austen didn’t much use commas (or paragraphs).
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Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
21 Sep. 2026
Previous seasons saw Vernon curate the subterranean room into messy domestic tableaux, with pieces nestled among scenes of dinner parties and unfinished musical manuscripts—the detritus of a chaotic creative process.
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