Weird Child

The Village Voice reviews Dear Enemy by Jessica Alexander:

She remembers writing and performing “very bad” plays with her four siblings. She studied philosophy at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, where, despite the lack of creative writing classes offered, she began to submit poetry to various journals. “One summer I sent a poem out every morning. The poems were terrible,” she says. “I can’t remember whether I had particular aspirations or if I chose the journals randomly.” She cites the Brontë sisters, Edith Wharton, and Shirley Jackson as early influences. “As a queer kid, I related to all that repression and unspeakable desire.” (Alana Mohamed)

Consequence of Sound reviews the latest album by Vera, Good Job No Conversation:

Lyrically, “Nobody Else” is a tribute to the Caribbean novel Wide Sargasso Sea, by the Creole writer Jean Rhys. The novel is a response to Brontë’s Jane Eyre, in which the landowner keeps his Jamaican wife locked up in the attic, allegedly because she is mad. Wide Sargasso Sea tells the story of the “mad woman of the attic” and with its cool tone of tristesse the book describes the wickedness, the Jamaican landscape, and the eternal drinking of rum. (Eddie Fu)

The York Press talks about the play The Book of Dragons:

Juliet [Forster] was drawn to Nesbit's dragons for another reason. "One of the stories is set in Forest Hill, in London, which is where I grew up, and that all came back to me when I read them again," she says. "I remembered the characters, the wit, the craziness of the fantasies, though normally I'd read books again and again as a child – I'd read Jane Eyre seven times by the age of 11; weird child! – but I'd only read The Book Of Dragons once because I'd borrowed it from the library, so the stories must have stayed with me. (Charles Hutchinson)

The Manual describes the Metchosin House by architect Marko Semcic:

Six bedrooms and eight bathrooms, including full guest accommodations and a separate caretaker’s cabin, allow enough space and freedom that you could host a full family reunion and hardly ever see your visitors, while extra perks like a tennis court, billiards room, outdoor kitchen, fully automated boat house, library, and home theater mean you can become a total Emily Bronte-style recluse and still never get bored. (Leann Whittemore)

AV Club reviews the film Phantom Thread by P.T. Anderson:

Phantom Thread often resembles a kind of relocated Gothic romance (there are faint shades of Jane Eyre), with Alma moving into the film’s equivalent of a grand manor, subjecting herself to the strict rules and eccentricities of a life within The House Of Woodcock. (A.A. Dowd)

The Sheffield Telegraph reviews Elmet by Fiona Mozley:

Two of my favourite books are Wuthering Heights and Danny The Champion Of The World. Parallels have been drawn between Elmet and the former (not least in the indomitable figure of Cathy, who is nothing short of magnificent, taking her blazing revenge on behalf of centuries of women, like a naked Carrie.) But I found myself spotting more correlations with the latter. And I mean that as the most sincere of compliments.(Anna Caig)

Bollywood HelpLine interview the film director Imtiaz Ali:

When asked imtiaz whether he will adapt a book to make a movie out of it, he said, “I in fact, thought of adapting ‘Wuthering Heights’ but lot of people have done that already. There are many version of it in India that has been made like ‘Dil Diya Dard Liya’ and ‘Muqaddar Ka Sikandar’ had some aspects of it. I was thinking of  lot of these classics like ‘A Fairwell (sic) To Arms’ but it will be too expensive so then I am kind of resting that thought for sometime but I would love to do that but the important thing is when you make a film, it has to be your film so it could be somebody else’s story but then what is your story within books like ‘Wuthering Heights’”

One strong contender for the title of the most absurd post of the year: what to read next, according to your zodiac sign (sigh). Your Tango has the doubtful honour:

Taurus is set in her ways and live up to everything an earth sign is known for. That’s why Jane Eyre is a must for you.
Read about the strong and independent woman, Jane (didn't see that coming, did you?), who finds herself and learns to trust her gut above all. Through strife and love and finding out her fiance is already married, she has an interesting life that could keep any Taurus glued to a book.
Cancel drinks for tonight, sit down with some tea and a blanket, and get started on this dramatic account of an orphan in the 1800s. (Sarah Gangraw)

A local literary contest for high school students in Valdemoro, Spain, with Emily Brontë as referent:

El tema de la prueba de narrativa breve es la mujer, ya que este año se celebra el segundo centenario del nacimiento de Emily Brontë, autora de Cumbres borrascosas, y se la toma como referente. El texto no podrá superar los cinco folios. (José Manuel in Revista de Valdemoro) (Translation)

Jouster Courant (in Dutch) reviews the comic Guardian 3: Ophelia by Robbert Damen:

Guardian is een solistisch optredende Scotland Yard- vrouw met bovenzinnelijke gaven, die zo uit de Harry Potter-wereld afkomstig zou kunnen zijn dan wel uit die van de gezusters Brontë. Haar uiterlijk is enigszins gothic dankzij de zwarte kledij en haar indringende ogen. (Koos Schulte) (Translation)

El País (Spain) interviews the writer Magela Baudoin:

El regusto es parecido al que deja Jorge Luis Borges en muchas de sus narraciones. Tampoco eso es casual. “Mi abuela era una gran lectora de clásicos, por ella llegué, precoz, a las Brontë, a Jane Austen... Con los años fue perdiendo la vista y entonces memorizaba la poesía que yo le leía en voz alta; como admiraba a Borges, el primer bardo que descubrí fue él; hoy aun le leo reiteradamente”, rememora Baudoin, nacida en Venezuela en 1973, pero boliviana de crianza vital y literaria. (Carles Geli) (Translation)

What can possibly have in common a Scottish cliff and Wuthering Heights? According to MeriStation (in Spanish) reviewing he PC game Black Mirror it has:

Encarnamos a Dave Gordon, heredero de el Castillo de Black Mirror situado en un acantilado escocés al más puro estilo de Cumbres Borrascosas. (José Luis López de Garayo Felgueroso) (Translation)

Cineseries-Magazine (in French) reviews the film God's Own Country by Francis Lee:

Filmée au printemps, cette terre est hospitalière, contrairement à celle des Hauts de Hurlevent, le film de sa compatriote Andrea Arnold, également dans le Yorkshire, également belle, mais cette fois-là embrumée et inquiétante. (Beatrice Delesalle) (Translation)

BookRiot vindicates Anne Brontë vehemently; To Read, Or Not To Read reviews the Thandie Newton's Jane Eyre audiobook; the Brontë Sisters compiles several Christmas pictures of Haworth and the Parsonage.