Real Finesse

Irish Independent reviews Karen Powell's Fifteen Wild Decembers:

The story, with a title from Emily Brontë’s poem Remembrance, begins onboard a ship sailing from London to Ostend with Emily a very reluctant passenger. The sailing is rough and her sister Charlotte is throwing up relentlessly.

“I was pleased to see that she was being violently sick,” Emily remarks. A tad unkind, you might think. And the author of Wuthering Heights could indeed be unkind, especially when forced to do things against her will. Like, for instance, leaving Haworth for any length of time. (...)

Powell summons the spirit of Emily with real finesse, in all her disdain for the world and her devotion to home and hearth. (Anne Cunningham)

More on the Emerald Fennell's Saltburn-Wuthering Heights connection from Polygon Games:

It may seem a little counterintuitive to compare internet fame with Gothic novels like Brideshead Revisited, Wuthering Heights, and Northanger Abbey. But Fennell thinks of these books and online obsessions as closely connected. (Tasha Robinson)

And in this interview on Third Coast Review: 

Steve Prokopuy: Is your creative center an inherently dark place, or is it a place where your dark thoughts go to hang out and mix it up and come out as these amazing films?

E.F.: Oh, I don’t know. Honestly, I think I always have been a Gothic witch at heart. I feel a real kinship with the Brontës and Kate Bush and Hilary Mantel and all of those women who are making Gothic, intense, sexual, dark things. That’s where all of my loves are, ever since I was young. Absolutely, there’s a place of darkness, but it’s also crucially joyful, funny, pleasurable.

Neil Hannon didn't like the re-recording of Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush. In El País: 

For me she’s at the top, but she re-recorded Wuthering Heights. And it doesn’t make any sense. It doesn’t have the same vibe or soul that the original had. It’s not her fault. She has gotten older and used different instruments and equipment. I listened to that song constantly for eight years and I didn’t care what she thought about her song, I only cared what I thought. (Ígor López)

The song, by the way, was used in the Norwegian TV show Maskorama, according to NRK. And, another song inspired by Wuthering Heights,  It’s All Coming Back To Me Now by Celine Dion,  also appears in another TV show, Strictly Come Daincing, as can ben read in The Guardian.

Fading days in Kennebec Journal:

And here, at 3 p.m. as the sun slowly crawls past the lawns and porches full of empty Halloween displays, my cold nose against the window makes me feel like Heathcliff’s ghost walking on the Wuthering Heights. (J.P. Devine)

Aydinlik (Turkey) talks about women in literature:

Woolf’un makalesinde adı geçen büyük kadın yazarlar arasında Jane Austen, Brontë Kardeşler (Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë ve Anne Brontë), George Eliot, Mary Shelley, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Katherine Mansfield gibi yazarlar gelir ve elbette ki Virginia Woolf da bu yazarlar arasında yer alır. Bu öncü isimlere modern dünyamızdan şu isimler de eşlik eder: Sylvia Plath, Furuğ Ferruhzad, Margaret Atwood, Ursula K. Le Guin, Agatha Christie, Harper Lee, J. K. Rowling ve saire. Hazır konusu açılmışken başrolde bir kadına yer veren ve "kadınların uyanışı" gibi bir temelde kaleme alınan romanlardan bazı örnekler de vermek isterim:

Lev Tolstoy'dan Anna Karenina, Henry James'ten Bir Hanımefendinin Portresi, Emily Brontë'den Uğultulu Tepeler, Charlotte Brontë'den Jane Eyre, (...) (Bahri Doğukan Şahin) (Translation)

Diario de Ferrol (Spain) praises libraries:

Las bibliotecas son el bien absoluto, intocables, fascinantes, lugares de refugio, sitios en los que surge el amor o los aprobados de fin de carrera,  palacios mentales que albergan historias que huyen de la realidad triste, pobre o agresiva, el niño que descubre a Ulises o la Canción de Rolando, a Tintín, a Asterix, a Sherlock Holmes e Irene Adler, a Dracula, a Heathcliff, a Jane Eyre o a Superman.  (Nieves Abarco) (Translation)

Irene Vallejo discusses ghosts in Página 12 (Argentina):

Así lo cuenta Emily Brontë, con torrencial romanticismo, en Cumbres borrascosas. Los protagonistas se enamoran, se traicionan y se aniquilan el uno al otro con desamparada crueldad. Parecen empeñados en destruir toda posibilidad de final feliz, pero cada vez se necesitan más. Cuando Catherine está a punto de morir, Heathcliff le suplica que lo persiga: “Hay espíritus que andan errantes por el mundo. Quédate siempre conmigo, toma cualquier forma, vuélveme loco. Pero no me dejes solo”. 

Emily escribió la novela mientras cuidaba a su hermano, enfermo de tuberculosis, durante largas vigilias agónicas. En su libro, las apariciones expresan un deseo que reconocemos bien: la permanencia del ser amado. Ella, la recluida hija de un pastor anglicano, pensaba que la fantasía es un distrito de lo cotidiano. Los fantasmas existen –aunque no sean reales– porque los necesitamos. No sabemos vivir sin los muertos. (Translation)