POV: you're a dog on the moors

Vanity Fair has Kazuo Ishiguro answer the Proust Questionnaire.

Who are your favorite writers? Dostoyevsky, Kafka, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Austen. From our own era, Murakami, Cormac McCarthy, Gabriel García Márquez. Elizabeth Strout and Mariana Enriquez are both important recent discoveries for me.

The Telegraph discusses dogs and the British countryside.

In a wild and scrubby public park just above Haworth, after a circular walk through Brontë Country, I was gladdened by the sight of a hawk on a treetop. I thought of Barry Hines’ A Kestrel for a Knave and the magnificent film adaptation, Kes. “It's fierce, an’ it’s wild, an’ it’s not bothered about anybody, not even about me right. And that’s why it’s great.”

And it was a kestrel, golden and fawn, with a splash of grey, small but sharp-eyed, king of the air currents. I watched it. It eyed me back. Time hung in the balance, rather like the hawk in the rain in Ted Hughes’ famous poem.

Then, from out of the bracken, a young cocker spaniel, pulling on its long lead, reared up, yapping and whining. Its sibling, another pup, joined in, though in the opposite direction as if they were trying to quarter their bumbling, fumbling, and now loudly protesting owner. 

“Bugsy, stop it! Stop it now or I’m taking you back to the car! Kanye, get down!”

The raptor found a thermal to take it away from this place of noisy humans and nasty mutts. I did the same, though furiously plodding rather than smoothly floating. 

The scene was a fitting, if depressing, conclusion to a subplot of my morning hike. For passing through the semi-wilderness of Penistone Hill Country Park, I had noticed a proliferation of doggy walnut whips, coils, sausages and pellets: turds of every shape, size and hue, some free to contaminate the grassland and spoil an unsuspecting walker’s boot, others in their jettisoned little plastic bags.(Chris Moss)

The Collegian discusses the use of POV (point of view) on TikTok.

One of the most popular video styles on Tiktok has been the “POV” (point of view), but Tiktok by no means invented it. We’ve seen it in novels like Charlotte Brontë’s “Jane Eyre” (1847), films such as “The Blair Witch Project” (1999), and—in the age of short form media—it has appeared again. In POV content, the stories are told in the first person: Jane Eyre narrates her own life; we view the horror of the film students through the lens of their own camera. It has always been understood that the “point of view” is that of the narrator or creator. (Caleb Holm)

Madame Figaro (France) features Emma Mackey. The Boar celebrates the 45th anniversary of the release of Kate Bush's The Kick Inside, which includes her Wuthering Heights. Stay at Home Artist has published the second instalment of her Brontë stories.