Jane Eyre: 'a tale of the devastating mental health impacts of Tik-Tok addiction'

The Spectator has strong opinions about the new TV adaptation of Great Expectations but begins the article by suggesting a fun game:

Allow me to introduce you to a fun game you can play in your own parlour. You take it in turns for someone to shout out the title of a pre-21st century literary classic. The other player responds by giving the blurb of a 21st century television adaptation. It might go, for example; ‘Middlemarch!’ ’ A searing, never-more-relevant exposé of the rural chemsex scene starring Sophie Okonedo’. Or possibly; ‘Mapp and Lucia!’ ‘Benedict Cumberbatch and Eddie Izzard are locked in combat with the county lines gangs of the Sussex coast’. Or even: ‘Jane Eyre!’ ‘Lesley Manville and Cush Jumbo star in this accessible tale of the devastating mental health impacts of Tik-Tok addiction’. (Gareth Roberts)

The Guardian interviews comic Rachel Parris about her new book, Advice from Strangers.

The book has also been described as an “uplifting feminist manifesto”. Would you agree with that?

I think that describes it pretty well. A fair bit of the book is a feminist take on issues such as internet trolling, Tory policy, childbirth, period products, and Jane Eyre’s “madwoman in the attic”. I look at most of those topics with humour but also with a bit of hope, with an eye on the future. (Liam Pape)

Télérama (France) interviews Frances O'Connor and Le café pédagogique (France) recommends the recent documentary Les hauts de Hurlevent : amour, haine et vengeance. Finally, 'Southey And Charlotte Brontë: Part Two' on AnneBrontë.org.