Ttitillating and sublimely earthy

 Bradford is the brand new UK City of Culture 2025. And the BBC reminds us of Bradford's wonders:

City of Culture has also been a chance for people to take stock of Bradford's cultural history and the famous names that have come from here.

Among them are artist David Hockney, playwright JB Priestley, composer Delius and the Bronte sisters.

"Emily Brontë, you just take it for granted that she's from Bradford," says [Seeta] Wrightson.

For her, City of Culture has been a moment to look at what makes the city special. And again and again, talking to younger Bradfordians, while some might mention the Brontës, the spectacular Victorian architecture, the first free school meals or the diversity - almost everyone seems to agree that the city's food is key. (David Silito)

Well... Bradford area. 

Colorado Public Radio lists some of the highlights of 2025 which include:

Finally, a milestone moment: Teacup Gorilla celebrates 15 years as a band with a brand-new album. This time, they’ve teamed up with Dameon Merkl (of Bad Luck City) to on an album that is scoring Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë’s timeless classic. (Alisha Sweeney)

The Washington Post lists noteworthy books for January:

‘The Favorites’ by Layne Fargo

Katrina Shaw always dreamed of becoming an Olympic ice dancing champion alongside her devoted skating partner, Heath Rocha. Their traumatic pasts created a bond that seemed unbreakable, and the sizzling chemistry in their performances launched them on a path to stardom, but then a shocking turn of events severed their relationship. Years later, an unauthorized documentary reignites the public’s fascination with Shaw and Rocha and offers them a chance to define their legacy. Fargo’s wrenching romance channels both “Wuthering Heights” and the real-life story of Olympic ice dancing medalists Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, whose careers inspired legions of fans and also raised questions about the demands of fame. (Random House, Jan. 14) ( Becky Meloan)

The Telegraph of India discusses "the sense of wonder" in literature:

How is a sense of wonder fostered by the deft use of intertextuality? One is reminded of Bharati Mukherjee’s self-reflexive novel, Jasmine, that interweaves elements of all three literary works — Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, and G.B. Shaw’s Pygmalion — into a work of immigrant romance. (Sundeep Ghosh)

Cambrian News includes a Brontë question in a New Year's pub Quiz:

189: Which female novelist was born in 1775. Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë or Mary Shelley-

Bruzz (Belgium) reviews Andrea Arnold's Bird and describes Wuthering Heights 2011 like this: 

But then she gave her own take on a genre drenched in poetic naturalism with the titillating and sublimely earthy Emily Brontë adaptation Wuthering Heights (2011). (Niels Ruëll)