Troubling Generations

Inside Time and books and seasons:

Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) and Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) reflect the misty Yorkshire moors of the Brontës’ home, while Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells (Pico Iyer) and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (David Mitchell) venture to Japan. (Prison Reading Groups (PRG) - Erin)

RTÉ blames the concept of soulmates for all kinds of evils and finds in Wuthering Heights the guilty patient zero:

Wuthering Heights, the immortal novel that troubled generations of Leaving Cert students, continues to disturbingly haunt cultural notions of love, obsession, and that tall, dark, brooding 'One' where "whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same". Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight saga was inspired by, and consistently references, Wuthering Heights. E.L. James’s Fifty Shades of Grey, which originated as Twilight fanfiction, echoes Wuthering Heights’ motifs. Even Sally Rooney's Normal People evokes Brontë’s influence in the class-conscious, self-centred struggles between Connell and Marianne.

Over 175 years later, Brontë’s dark romance still refuses to slumber quietly, shaping our ideas of passion, inseparable loves and impossible desires. The notion of the soulmate lingers in culture and our emotional unconscious, reflecting a persistent burning to stash fictions into our fantasies of love. In chasing these shadows, we glimpse both the thrill and the peril of romanticised passion. (...)

Soulmates hurt. Heathcliff destroyed the lives, loves and dreams of everyone around him.  (...)

 It’s no accident that Wuthering Heights is dispensed to teenagers and that Normal People has young-adult protagonists. Only in youth and inexperience can we love so wildly, blindly, and naïvely. (Dr Ray O'Neill)

BookRiot has an opinion about the nimphomaniac-nuns thing in Wuthering Heights 2026:

 I’m rarely concerned about an adaptation negatively impacting its source material, and this is no exception. Brontë is going to be just fine, but I’ll admit, it would be fun to have a reason to use “Wuthering Yikes” as a headline. (Rebecca Joines Schinsky)

WWD talks about the fall 2025 campaign of  Alexander McQueen's that apparently goes Gothic:

The new campaign is simple with its gray backdrop as it nods to Victorian Gothic with the models in black or white lace, extra pointy boots and hair blowing in the wind as if they were battling an English blizzard in some sort of Brontë novel. (Hikmat Mohammed)

Cinemanía (Spain) and Las Provincias (Spain) also mention the film. 

The Brontë Society acquisition of three adjoining properties at the top of Main Street in Haworth is now on The Telegraph & Argus. Málaga al Día (Spain) mentions the Brontës in the context of pseudonyms. Si Viaggia (Italy) explores Haworth, the moors and their influence on Wuthering Heights.