Resilient and Passionate

Of course, the death of Paul Auster (1947-2024) is all over literary news today. Even with some Brontë mentions:

While to some critics such experimentalism brought to mind the deconstruction approach of Jacques Derrida, Mr. Auster often described himself as a throwback who preferred Emily Brontë over the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard, as he said in a 2009 interview with the British newspaper The Independent. (Alex Williams in The New York Times)

Classics every woman should read on WION (India):

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Follow the journey of the resilient and passionate Jane Eyre as she navigates through adversities and seeks independence and love.

Culturess praises The Library of Borrowed Books by Lucy Gilmore:

There are also nods to popular classics such as Wuthering Heights, Psycho, The Haunting of Hill House, and much more. If you're a reader of any kind, you'll be tickled by a lot of these mentions. (Rebecca Mills)

Newsbytes lists novels with 'gripping plots':

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë unfolds on the desolate Yorkshire moors, charting the volatile relationship between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, which descends into a cycle of revenge.

Brontë weaves Gothic elements of curses and a haunting estate into a narrative that echoes the dark complexity found in Frankenstein, crafting a timeless tale of passion and retribution. (Anujj Trehaan)

The poet Collin Kelley talks about his music discoveries in Rough Draft Atlanta: 

Kate Bush somersaulting across my late-night television screen singing “Wuthering Heights,” and Peter Gabriel leading me to the poetry of Anne Sexton with “Mercy Street.”

A jazz concert in Cambridge, UK in Varsity brings us a cover of Kate Bush's song:

After a brief intermission, Daniel Daley Sextet took the stage to perform a slow, soulful cover of Kate Bush’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ (Cécile McLorin Salvant’s version) led by Maya Moh, whose stunning vocals continued throughout the night. Accompanying her were band members Milo Flynn (keys), Taylor West (bass), Kiran Buzza (guitar) and Charlie Saville (drums). (Madeline Whitmore) 

New Zealand Herald reviews Andrew Stauffer's Byron: A Life in Ten Letters:

As Andrew Stauffer notes in his excellent new biography, moody fictional males from Emily Brontë's Heathcliff to Neil Gaiman’s Dream owe a debt to Byron’s haunted protagonists. (Thomas McLean)

Lifehacker lists non-porn movies but rated NC-17:

Wide Sargasso Sea 1993

Adapting Jean Rhys’ feminist, anti-colonial take on Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea tells the story of that novel’s “madwoman in the attic,” here a West Indian Creole heiress who enters into an ultimately unhappy marriage with Mr. Rochester, and in the process finding herself isolated and alone in England, even more adrift than she had been in the Jamaica of her birth. The movie is damn sexy, which earned it that NC-17, though not everyone agreed it had reached its lofty ambitions (the Washington Post called it, “coffee-table pornography with sound effects.”) (Ross Johnson)

Elle (Italy) reviews the film Emily 2022 by Frances O'Connor: 

Emily è un film sensibile e appassionato, nonché cinetico che predilige la telecamera a mano e il montaggio seguendo da vicino il ritmo della performance feroce e carismatica di Mackey, attrice rivelazione della serie tv Sex Education. La sua Emily Brontë è imbronciata, mortificata dalla realtà che la circonda, tende a intrufolarsi in spazi privati o nella sua testa, è la pecora nera della famiglia spesso rimproverata dal padre autoritario. Il film potenzia le sue emozioni turbolente con un paesaggio sonoro denso, luci tremolanti, una fotografia calda e suggestiva. O’Connor dà a questo film d’epoca una veste diversa, anche molto sexy. Trova un piacere nei tocchi goffi, negli sguardi rubati e in questi personaggi molto coperti che strappano via i vari strati di vestiti in preda alla passione e all’istinto. Il risultato è un’avventura emozionante, ricca di sfumature e nuova per il genere a cui sembra appartenere. (Letizia Rogolino) (Translation)

SentidoG (Spain) briefly reviews Underdog. The Other Other Brontë Sister:

Es un programa inteligente, lleno de pequeñas observaciones inteligentes y también sorprendentemente divertido. Vemos la ambición de las tres hermanas, frustradas por la falta de igualdad de oportunidades e ideando planes para triunfar en un mundo de hombres; en particular, somos testigos de la a veces fea ambición de Charlotte, que no permitirá que nada (ni siquiera la lealtad a su propia familia) se interponga en su deseo de estar “en la habitación donde sucede” y llegar a ser tan famosa como Byron. El guión está lleno de frases divertidas y también tiene algunos momentos divertidos y surrealistas. (Pedro Pérez) (Translation)

Scam (France) publishes the shortlist of the Prix François Billetdoux which includes Quitter Hurlevent by Laurence Werner David. The Brussels Brontë Blog publishes a post by Octavia Cox on Anne Brontë and sea symbolism.