Add together the lifespans of the three Brontë sisters and you still fall short of filling a century

According to Russh, Wuthering Heights is one of the books to read 'if the Succession finale left you feeling bereft'.

Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights has a reputation for being kind of miserable and like the "poison" Kendall speaks of in Succession season four, episode eight, that misery drips through. Each generation to arrive after Cathy and Heathcliff's torrid love affair is subjected to the same battery and bruising that follows Logan's own reign of terror.

Inspired by the death of Martin Amis last week, The New European looks at how we grieve for great authors.

Some might say we are grieving books yet unwritten. Amis was 73, far from elde rly by today’s standards. Hilary Mantel was 70 when she died last year and, it turns out, was working on a novel about Jane Austen, who was only 41 he self when she died. Virginia Woolf was 59, Franz Kafka barely 40, Ernest Hemingway a few days shy of his 62nd birthday. Oscar Wilde and David Foster Wallace were 46. Add together the lifespans of the three Brontë sisters and you still fall short of filling a century.

We can only speculate about what might have been, had each been granted a few more years at the writing desk. But were their deaths felt more keenly than PG Wodehouse’s at 93 or Agatha Christie’s at 85? The world held its breath in 1910 for news of the ailing 82-year-old Leo Tolstoy, gravely ill at a rural railway station while staff solemnly telegraphed updates on his terminal decline – but no-one was fretting over the prospects of a sequel to War and Peace. (Charlie Connelly)

Business Insider looks at how well ChatGPT can deliver an essay on literature.

Ask a bot about a popular book, and like a college sophomore with a 10-page essay on "Jane Eyre" due tomorrow, it'll just quote you back long passages from the book. It's vomiting up words, not searching for insight. (Adam Rogers)

Film School Rejects recommends Danza Macabra: Volume One – The Italian Gothic Collection.

What is it? Four Italian chillers from 1964 to 1971.

Why see it? The Monster of the Opera sees a dance troupe terrorized by a vampire, The Seventh Grave gives Agatha Christie an Italian spin, Scream of the Demon Lover pairs Jane Eyre with Frankenstein, and Lady Frankenstein delivers just what the title promises. (Rob Hunter)

The goth look seems to be back and Vogue (Australia) thinks that,

The Brontë sisters would have much to say about the style du jour. (Gladys Lai)