Wildfire imagination

The Herald does a roundup of recently-released books including

This Dark Night: The Life of Emily Brontë, Deborah Lutz

Bloomsbury, £20

This Dark Night: The Life of Emily Brontë (Image: Bloomsbury)

The first comprehensive biography of Emily Brontë in over two decades, by an expert in Victorian literature. From its Proustian opening sentence, to her subject’s death bed at the age of 30, this is a captivating, feeling account of the most enigmatic of the Brontë family. By putting Emily and Wuthering Heights into a historical and political context and drawing closely on her writing, Deborah Lutz illuminates her intriguing personality and wildfire imagination. As Lutz tells us, it took Emily two years to write her masterpiece, and a further 100 for the world to begin to fathom it. That process continues with this biography. (Rosemary Goring)

MRC film chiefs Brye Adler and Jonathan Golfman mention Wuthering Heights 2026 in an interview for Variety.

MRC has established itself as a champion of innovative filmmakers like Edgar Wright, Emerald Fennell and Chloe Domont. But the movies these auteurs deliver defy categorization and that presents its own challenges.

“A lot of the movies we make don’t have a lot of obvious comps so they tend to be very difficult for the marketplace to properly evaluate,” admits Brye Adler, MRC’s co-president of film. “Something like ‘Wuthering Heights‘ is an R-rated period romantic drama, but describing it like that doesn’t reflect its potential to be distinctive, which is why it worked. Or you can’t put ‘Cruel Intentions’ and ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley in the same category, but that’s what ‘Saltburn’ is. The system does not compute what we make.” (Brent Lang)