BOOKS: What did you read after “The White Album”?
KENNEDY: Turgenev, Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina,” and all of Jane Austen. I didn’t get along with the Bronte sisters. I enjoyed “Jane Eyre” up until she married Mr. Rochester. Then I was having a laugh. I thought “Wuthering Heights” was nuts and not well written. (Amy Sutherland)
The New York Times has picked its '100 Notable Books of 2024' and one of them includes some Brontë-related content.
Salvage by Dionne Brand
Brand, a Trinidadian-born poet and novelist, wears her erudition lightly in this eloquent and witty book of essayistic meditations on English literary classics, teasing out the ways in which novels from Thackeray’s “Vanity Fair” to Charlotte Brontë’s “Jane Eyre” conceal within their pages the ravages of British colonialism for its Black and Indigenous subjects.
Austin Chronicle sums up Andrea Arnold's previous filmography when reviewing her new film Bird.
Fish Tank’s snarling, ungovernable Mia, preyed upon by an older man. Wuthering Heights’ wild Heathcliff and Catherine, flinching from violence and licking open wounds. The feral teens of American Honey, scooped up by an unscrupulous pack leader. If there’s a through line to Andrea Arnold films, it’s how close to the animal kingdom – to some ancient shared DNA – her characters feel. Pushing the conceit further, her last film, the 2021 biographical documentary Cow, was about an actual animal. (Kimberley Jones)
Far Out has selected 'The five greatest songs about ghosts' and one of them is
‘Wuthering Heights’ – Kate Bush
Within the first 30 pages of Emily Brontë’s masterpiece is one of the most effective pieces of horror fiction of the age. Mild-mannered Mr Lockwood, the novel’s narrator, spends a single night in the titular manor and gets accosted by an apparition of its owner’s true love, begging to be let in through the window as he cowers in mortal terror.
The 1967 BBC adaptation of the novel shook an 18-year-old Kate Bush (yes, she wrote this when she was 18) so thoroughly that she wrote a song about it in a matter of hours (yes, she wrote in a few hours). That fateful night, she created one of the genuine touchstones of British pop and made her an icon to weirdos and goths everywhere, much like Emily had done a century before. (Will Howard)
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