A landscape marked by many lives and stories

The Atlantic reviews Fernando A. Flores’s novel Bronter Brontë.

As the novel progresses, Flores moves fluidly among narrative threads and points of view, orchestrating a chorus of characters and voices, who break apart and come together in all sorts of unexpected ways. In addition to Neftalí and her bandmates, there is her mother, who appears as a ghost, and her mother’s former lover Bettina, who helped instill Neftalí’s love of books. Perhaps most important is Jazzmin Monelle Rivas, the author of the novel-within-a-novel—about literature’s power to face down an array of exploitations—that gives Brother Brontë its name. These shifting perspectives reinforce the notion of the border as a landscape marked by many lives and stories, rather than a monolith. (David L. Ulin)

Keighley News reports that Keighley and Ilkley Labour Party opposes the planned wind farm at the heart of Brontë country.

Members have passed a motion condemning the proposed 65-turbine development on Walshaw Moor, between Stanbury and Hebden Bridge.

Opponents claim the scheme would have a huge environmental and visual impact.

Campaigners include Keighley Conservative MP Robbie Moore, who called for a "unified voice" against the proposals.

The Labour Party motion says the scheme would "cause large-scale and catastrophic damage" to the moorland. (Alistair Shand)

El Debate (Spain) recommends The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

Suele decirse que La inquilina de Wildfell Hall es una de las primeras novelas feministas. No lo dudo. Helen encarna –y en esto me recuerda a Mujercitas, de Louisa May Alcott, que reseñé también en este diario– a una de esas mujeres cristianas, agradables pero dotadas de un fuerte carácter, de firmes convicciones y con un comportamiento moral intachable, que buscan su lugar en el mundo sin traicionarse a sí mismas. [...]

Extiendo su sabio consejo y animo a los lectores a que incluyan La inquilina de Wildfell Hall en ese posible canon de 200 libros imprescindibles. No se arrepentirán de darle una oportunidad a esta magnífica obra clásica que se presenta ante nuestros ojos con las virtudes de la mejor novela decimonónica. (Francisco Rodríguez Criado) (Translation)