Meld the sublime, the romantic and the gothic

Financial Times reviews The Unthanks' Lines album:

Emily Brontë, first world war poets and campaigner Lillian Bilocca are the focus of the UK folk band’s song cycle trilogy.
Emily Brontë has exerted an understandably wide influence on popular music. Kate Bush’s debut single, of course, but Wuthering Heights also fed into Genesis’s Wind & Wuthering and gave titles to its instrumental diptych “‘Unquiet Slumbers For The Sleepers . . . ” and “ . . . In That Quiet Earth’”; Cliff Richard cast himself as a 50-something Heathcliff in a musical version of the novel.
The Unthanks’ engagement with Brontë is restrained by comparison. Commissioned for the Brontë Society to mark Emily’s 200th birthday, Adrian McNally set some of her poems for the sisters Rachel and Becky Unthank to sing, to his accompaniment on Brontë’s own five-octave cabinet piano. The recording was made after hours in the writer’s old home (now museum), Haworth Parsonage, and the songs are punctuated by creaking floorboards and echoing footsteps. The songs, from “High Waving Heather” onwards, meld the sublime, the romantic and the gothic.
Emily Brontë is one of the three EPs that make up this collection, together roughly the length of a single CD, about lines of poetry, defensive lines, fishing lines. (David Honigmann)

The Irish Examiner and the history of curtains:

I always think of Jane Eyre in the opening passage of Charlotte Brontë’s book of 1847 shivering in fear in that bit of pathetic hiding behind the hefty Victorian curtains. (Kya deLongchamps)

NBC's The Today Show recommended Jane Eyre as one of the best love stories in literature:

Savannah Guthrie's Pick: "Jane Eyre," by Charlotte Brontë
Part mystery, part love story, "Jane Eyre" was Savannah's pick for the greatest love story of all time.

The Irish Times interviews the actress Caitriona Balfe:

Books played a large role in Balfe’s upbringing. When she was about six or seven, her father, a garda, decided that the family wasn’t going to have a television. For about six years, the only time she and her siblings had television at home was for two weeks at Christmas. So she read. Everything. Before she began secondary school, her favourite book was Wuthering Heights. (Una Mullally)

Kerrang! interviews Peter Murphy, from the band Bauhaus, about being a goth:

Gothic novels like Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein dealt with a lot of staring into the sea, reflecting on unrequited love, and the sheer, extraordinary pain of being mortal. To truly be “goth” is to understand the sheer darkness and power of one’s own feelings. 

BookRiot recommends reading Jane Eyre if you are single:

All you care about right now is your own well-being. You know there’s someone right for you just around the corner, or you simply just not that worried about that. Therefore, you need a leading female character to remind you that you’re also strong and determined, and nothing’s impossible when you put your mind to it. Jane Eyre is a fair choice. She’s a woman ahead of her time that maintains her principles of justice, human dignity, and morality above all, always succeeding at asserting herself to whom threatens her autonomy. Enjoy! (Laura Melgão)

NPR's Ask Me Another has a glimpse into a terrible, but frankly not unimaginable, future:

Ophira Eisenberg: Michael Ian Black also has a podcast called Obscure, where he reads Thomas Hardy's book "Jude The Obscure" out loud and comments on it, which - this is actually the template for the future of American education. This is how people are going to learn about classic literature. They're going to listen to podcasts of classic works read by celebrities. That's how it's going to work. Homework is going to be, like, listen to "Jane Eyre" as read by Post Malone. You know...
(LAUGHTER)
Eisenberg: ...That's going to be the thing. After that, listen to RuPaul's "A Brief History Of Time."

Fionola Meredith in The Belfast Times has had enough of Valentine's foolishness:

Perhaps the impossible weight of expectations gets to them: the realisation that their relationship is less Heathcliff and Cathy (and that didn't end well), more Itchy and Scratchy. Or maybe it's the unbearable thought of the love sausage and its gruesome ilk.
But Valentine's Day is a mere flash in the pan compared to the monstrous commercialism of the wedding industry, which brazenly takes the idea of romantic love and turns it into cold, hard, loveless cash.

Polygon reviews the TV series The Umbrella Academy:

At times, The Umbrella Academy feels like it has more in common with the Gothic works of the Brontë sisters than it does with superhero tutelage. (Petrana Radulovic)

The New York Times publishes an obituary of the publisher and writer Betty Ballantine:

They were not alone in seeing the potential of the paperback market in the United States. Pocket Books had just started publishing quality paperbacks, breaking in with Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights” and James Hilton’s “Lost Horizon.” (Katharine Q. Seelye)

The Press Republican  explores Valentine's Day from a Jewish point of view:

Novelist Emily Brontë said it this way in “Wuthering Heights”: “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
I love my wife, Betty, deeply, but I do not love her that way. (The God Squad - Rabbi Gellman)

Live Mint goes a bit too far in saying that,

The Brontë sisters, Anne and Emily, battled the consumption that killed them as they wrought their masterpieces. (Shreya Sen-Handley)

Zibby Owens on Parents reminisces of how

Ever since I cried my way through the end of "Charlotte's Web" at age eight, hiding out in the dark after bedtime in the tiny Jack & Jill bathroom I shared with my little brother, I've been obsessed with books. I was the girl at sleep-away camp reading "Jane Eyre" on the scratchy, wool blanket while my bunkmates strung my counselors' bras from the rafters.

La Libre (Belgium) asks their readers about their favourite books:

Liz, 19 ans "Les Hauts de Hurlevent" d’Emily Brontë
Brillant, glaçant, roman de la vengeance et de la passion destructrice, il s’agit ni plus ni moins d’un chef-d’œuvre. Emily Brontë a enfanté un monstre de la littérature, intemporel et terrible. La lecture m’a surtout apporté - et continue de le faire - de solides bases culturelles, mais aussi un apprentissage de la vie. J’ai grandi en lisant. Et puis naturellement, il s’agit pour moi d’une source d’évasion, une fenêtre ouverte sur d’autres cieux. (Louise Vanderkelen) (Translation)

Nicaragua Diseña (Nicaragua) and Valentine books:

Comenzamos con uno de mis libros favoritos de toda la vida; “Jane Eyre” todo un clásico de la literatura gótica. El libro te cuenta la historia de Jane, una huérfana con una vida difícil y llena de dolor debido al maltrato por parte de su tía y de la escuela. Al hacerse mayor, Jane decide dejar el internado y buscar trabajo por si sola, esto la lleva a la casa del señor Rochester como institutriz. Conforme pase el tiempo va a ir surgiendo una conexión especial entre Jane y Rochester, pero su relación no será nada fácil ya que él y la casa ocultan terribles secretos. (Abril Celeste) (Translation)

Ystads Allehanda (Sweden) reviews Call Me By Your Name, the novel:

Men också att vilja förlora sig helt i den andre. ”Han är mer jag än vad jag själv är”, tänker Elio och använder Emily Brontës ord. Men Aciman behöver inte låna andras ord för att äkta och inkännande beskriva kärlek och begär. (Bella Sternberg) (Translation)

ABC (Spain) talks about a new exhibition of Balthus in Madrid:

Frente a las vanguardias (pese a ir siempre a contracorriente, le influyen artistas como Bonnard, Derain o De Chirico), muestra mucho interés por el arte popular y el oriental. También por artistas como Caravaggio, Poussin y Courbet. López-Manzanares advierte en Balthus cierta melancolía:«No casa bien con el mundo moderno y mira al pasado. Comienza siendo un pintor rebelde (una especie de alter ego de Heathcliff en "Cumbres borrascosas"), intenta provocar y escandalizar con sus trabajos, tiene fe en cambiar el mundo, pero a partir de 1953 se aleja de él». (Natividad Pulido) (Translation)

El Periódico de Aragón (Spain) reviews Siri Hustvedt's A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women - Essays:

¿Hay libros peligrosos? Desde luego, afirma Siri, recordando que el Huckleberry Finn de Mark Twain estuvo prohibido a los escolares norteamericanos. A ella le trastornó Cumbres Borrascosas, porque desató una ola de sentimientos desconocidos... (Juan Bolea) (Translation)

Salamanca 24 horas (Spain) recommends the performances in Salamanca of the Teatre Lliure's production of Jane Eyre. A passing Wuthering Heights reference in Granma (Cuba) and a Brontë one in The Island (Sri Lanka). More Valentine mentions around: La Nación (Argentina), Libreriamo (Italy), Bluewin (Switzerland). The CAMRA Pub of the Seasons award has been given to the Wuthering Heights pub in Stanbury, Keighley News reports.  The wildlife filmmaker Gordon Buchanan has visited the Parsonage.

Interior Mad Designs has a joint post with Charles Roux (Fictitious Feasts) about Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre (1847).