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London politics
fromSlate Magazine
11 hours ago

The Author of Say Nothing Has a New True-Crime Book. It's Remarkable.

Patrick Radden Keefe's 'London Falling' investigates the death of Zac Brettler, exploring themes of tragedy, blame, and urban decay.
London politics
fromSlate Magazine
11 hours ago

The Author of Say Nothing Has a New True-Crime Book. It's Remarkable.

Patrick Radden Keefe's 'London Falling' investigates the death of Zac Brettler, exploring themes of tragedy, blame, and urban decay.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago

The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley review the laureate of bad relationships

Gwendoline Riley's novels transform ordinary lives into something startling, exploring themes of disconnection and complex relationships through spare prose and sharp dialogue.
Television
fromIndependent
3 days ago

Catherine Prasifka: HBO's Harry Potter feels far too dark - it's supposed to be for children, after all

Reboot adopts HBO's signature gritty tone with dark visuals and ominous music in the Harry Potter series teaser.
Arts
fromwww.npr.org
4 days ago

'The Keeper' is a grand finale to Tana French's Cal Hooper crime series

The Keeper concludes the Cal Hooper series, emphasizing environmental themes and the darkness lurking beneath the surface of rural life in Ireland.
Writing
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Permanence by Sophie Mackintosh review high-concept adultery fable

Sophie Mackintosh's novel Permanence explores desire and infidelity through a surreal narrative of a couple trapped in a fantasy world.
Books
fromenglish.elpais.com
4 days ago

Frankenstein, Jane Eyre and Snow White with a gender-based perspective: The Madwoman in the Attic' and the beginning of feminist literary criticism

The new edition of 'La loca del desvan' revives feminist literary criticism, highlighting the relevance of women's voices in literature today.
fromHyperallergic
1 week ago

Anki King's Nordic Noir

Anki King's work suggests an intimate engagement with New Image painting, particularly the later work of Susan Rothenberg, but she took it in a direction that is recognizably hers.
Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

The Writer and the Traitor by Robert Verkaik review divided loyalties

Graham Greene announced that he was resigning from MI6. Kim Philby, his chief in Section V, MI6's counterespionage arm, blinked. Greene had played his part in tending the illusion.
London politics
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fromAnOther
1 week ago

Polly Barton's Debut Novel Is an All-Consuming Exploration of Obsession

The protagonist navigates intense limerence while exploring self-actualization and cultural themes in Polly Barton's debut novel.
Television
fromBustle
2 weeks ago

Kerry Washington's New Thriller May Have A Shocking Twist

Apple TV's Imperfect Women follows three women navigating an affair and murder, exemplifying the 'good for her' genre where morally gray female characters make questionable choices in response to difficult circumstances.
Books
fromThe Atlantic
1 week ago

Today's Atlantic Trivia: Charles Dickens

The nighttime disorder formerly known as 'Pickwickian syndrome' is now called sleep apnea.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

The best recent crime and thrillers review roundup

Killing Me Softly and Whidbey explore complex themes of trauma, morality, and systemic failures in healthcare and society.
Television
fromSlate Magazine
3 weeks ago

Nicole Kidman's New Crime Show Is Surprisingly Captivating-and Goes Unexpected Places

Nicole Kidman stars as Kay Scarpetta in Amazon Prime's new series adaptation, blending family drama with forensic investigation as Kay confronts a murder matching a serial killer she caught 25 years ago.
#film-adaptation
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Wuthering Heights is at its heart a story of class and race. Emerald Fennell has got it all wrong | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Fennell's Wuthering Heights emphasizes teenage eroticism and romance, sidelining novel's themes of revenge, class struggle, racialized violence, power, and generational trauma.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

My Sister's Bones review drab adaptation doesn't deliver the dark punch of the bestselling novel

A drab psychological-thriller film fails to generate intrigue despite a strong cast, weak pacing, and an underpowered twist ending.
Film
fromThe Nation
1 month ago

The Bad Vibes of "Wuthering Heights"

Emerald Fennell's Wuthering Heights prioritizes contemporary aesthetic over literary faithfulness, reducing Brontë's complex novel to a shallow love story that reflects modern short attention spans rather than engaging with the source material's depth.
Books
fromwww.npr.org
3 weeks ago

Author Luke Kennard talks about his novel, 'Black Bag'

Luke Kennard's novel 'Black Bag' fictionalizes a 1967 psychology experiment where a silent, bagged actor in a classroom gradually becomes liked by students through repeated exposure, exploring how familiarity transforms perception.
NYC LGBT
fromQueerty
1 month ago

This Victorian era teen lesbian love affair ended in murder, consumption... & an opera - Queerty

Alice Mitchell murdered her lover Freda Ward in 1892 Memphis, shocking Victorian society with evidence of a passionate lesbian relationship between two middle-class women.
Writing
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

Virginia Woolf and the Reclaiming of Attention

Virginia Woolf's stream-of-consciousness technique demonstrates how attention shapes consciousness and remains relevant to contemporary struggles against digital distraction.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Almost Life by Kiran Millwood Hargrave review a will-they-won't-they queer romance

Almost Life chronicles a decades-long romance between two women beginning in 1970s Paris, exploring queer love, missed opportunities, and the consequences of life choices across different social contexts.
#wuthering-heights-adaptation
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Better than Wuthering Heights? The Brontes' novels ranked!

Charlotte Brontë's debut novel The Professor was rejected nine times before publication, while her second novel Jane Eyre achieved immediate success, and Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey drew authentically from her governess experience.
Television
fromIndieWire
1 month ago

'Industry' Creators on Mapping Yasmin's Arc from Wallflower to Ghislaine Maxwell

Industry Season 4 incorporates conspiracy-thriller elements and right-wing political themes, with Yasmin's character arc transforming her into a Ghislaine Maxwell-like figure involved in a dangerous fundraiser for white nationalist politics.
Relationships
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

Mary Gaitskill on Damage and Defiance

Economic necessity, urban conditions, and contradictory cultural messages pushed many women into sex work, with choice constrained by coercion or gradual entrapment.
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

Critics at Large Live: "Wuthering Heights" and Its Afterlives

James Lorimer, writing in the North British Review, promised that the novel would 'never be generally read.' Nearly two centuries later, it's regarded as one of the great works of English literature.
Film
Books
fromThe New Yorker
3 weeks ago

Patricia Cornwell on Crime and Creativity

Fear is the primary obstacle to creativity; overcoming it and persisting through rejection enables successful creative work.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

I'm fully prepared for our dystopian future!' Holliday Grainger on AI, firearms training and The Capture

Each series explores technology that feels just one step ahead of reality. In the era of AI, it feels more and more timely. Ben does a lot of research and we have advisers who inform us about the latest developments. Not just from the Met and counter-terror but military consultants as well. They're banks of information and a lot more open than you'd expect because it's all off the record.
Television
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 weeks ago

Saba Sams: I've no interest in reading Wuthering Heights again'

Jacqueline Wilson's unflinching approach to children's literature, alongside works by authors like Gwendoline Riley and Clarice Lispector, demonstrates that literary courage and emotional complexity resonate more powerfully than conventional safety or virtuousness.
Film
fromJezebel
1 month ago

The Most Agonizing Death Fantasies on Charli XCX's 'Wuthering Heights' Soundtrack, Ranked

Charli XCX's 12-track album delivers haunting, lush pop that maps obsessive, trauma-bonded love and romanticized emotional collapse.
fromThe Atlantic
4 weeks ago

Pushing the Limits of Historical Fiction

Enrigue's 'penchant for shooting the facts of history through the prism of the absurd' makes him singular-but it also puts him firmly in a long literary tradition. The book 'distills a byzantine swirl of historical events through the lives of a handful of very colorful characters,' intertwining several real and invented incidents with major moments in the Apache Wars, a series of skirmishes involving Native Americans, the U.S., and Mexico across the Southwest borderlands.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

The best recent crime and thrillers review roundup

Obnoxious jewellery dealer Rodney Manderson has been killed outside the Bowery auction rooms, stabbed through the eye with the Victorian hatpin that his boss, Rose Bowery, has brandished in front of the nation on Bargain Hunt. As she discussed the pin's virtues as a deadly weapon as well as its millinerial uses, the fiercely loyal Rilke decides while feeling grateful to have skipped lunch and trying not to think of jelly to remove it before calling the police.
LGBT
fromVulture
2 months ago

Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Finale Recap: In Which Points Are Made

Everything Bundle has accomplished is substantive and worthy of celebration, but in the course of learning who she can trust and foiling the theft of Dr. Matip's formula, she's lost Jimmy and Loraine, who represented her one remaining connection to Gerry. She's also been forced to reckon with the knowledge that although Lady Caterham loves her, she's never really seen Bundle and her gifts accurately. Worse still, Bundle realizes that she's never really been enough for her mother.
UK politics
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 weeks ago

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley audiobook review a topical time-hopping romance

A British civil servant is hired to manage time travelers displaced from history into the present day, navigating sci-fi, romance, and contemporary social issues.
Film
fromThe Atlantic
1 month ago

Why the 'Wuthering Heights' Movie Is Infantilizing

American politics and popular culture are dominated by juvenile, sensational impulses summarized by the phrase 'everyone is twelve'.
History
fromwww.standard.co.uk
2 months ago

Historian Lucy Worsley believes team have solved Thames Torso murder mystery

Historians identify James Crick, a violent bargeman, as the likely Thames Torso Murderer who dismembered multiple women in late Victorian London.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

The Bed Trick by Izabella Scott review a bizarre story of sexual duplicity

In September 2015, Gayle Newland stood trial accused of sex by deception. It was alleged that she created an online identity as a man and used this character, Kye Fortune, to lure another woman into a sexual relationship, which was consummated repeatedly with the assistance of a blindfold and a prosthetic penis. The woman believed she was having sex with Kye until one day her ring caught on his hat and she felt long hair.
US news
LGBT
fromQueerty
2 months ago

Was Patricia Highsmith trans? - Queerty

Patricia Highsmith's life and work reveal deep, complex queerness and suggest a possible trans identity reflected in clothing, associations, and adaptations.
Film
fromJezebel
1 month ago

Lazy? Ridiculous? Choke-on-Your-Tongue Hot? Jezebel Debates 'Wuthering Heights'

The film's sexual content is muted and vanilla with no nudity, prompting viewers to desire more erotic intensity despite strong performances and a praised soundtrack.
#wuthering-heights
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Ben Markovits: I used to think any book concerned with people falling in love can't be very good'

Reading shaped formative years through detective stories, fantasy epics, and memoirs that provided companionship and escape during frequent moves and family transitions.
fromAnOther
1 month ago

Madeleine Dunnigan's Jean Is a Skilful Character Study in Teenage Angst

Jean is, in the words of its author, a novel about "alienation, told from the inside out". Set at a reform school over the sweltering summer of 1976, the heat rises as Jean fights (and fucks) the other boys, conflict and desire coalescing until the novel reaches its conclusion: his decision to walk out of his life for good. Dunnigan explores the ethics of early sexual experiences, British class dynamics and the crushing weight of - particularly masculine - conformity.
Books
Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

I'm a crime writer. Here's why we make the best Traitors contestants

Crime fiction specialists' observational, empathetic, and deceptive-character skills make them natural contestants and formidable analysts on The Traitors.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

The best recent crime and thrillers review roundup

Two contemporary novels probe suburban domesticity, revealing secrets, manipulation, and moral ambiguity through slow-burn suspense and darkly comic plotting.
#emerald-fennell
Books
fromKqed
1 month ago

A New Mother's Descent Into Madness

A Black new mother's descent into paranoia and psychosis amid racial tension and isolation captures the harrowing realities of postpartum experience.
Books
fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

Tessa Hadley on the Power of Memory

A lasting friendship rests on shared sensibility, mutual trust to perceive and understand, and an affinity of insight beyond mere shared experiences.
Books
fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

"The Quiet House," by Tessa Hadley

An elderly Geraldine reflects on youthful memories of Mattie, mixing nostalgia, loss, and the contrast between past admiration and present solitude.
Film
fromVulture
1 month ago

Finally, a Smooth-Brained Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights emphasizes tactile, erotic visuals and lush spectacle, trading sustained thematic depth for provocative, bodily cinematic moments.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Sarah Moss: I never liked Wuthering Heights as much as Jane Eyre'

Early reading experiences and family support shaped lasting literary tastes, identity, and critical awareness, prompting later reassessments of values and perspectives.
Books
fromVulture
2 months ago

Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Recap: Battle Commences

Jimmy and Bundle investigate linked deaths of Gerry and Ronnie, uncovering connections to "Seven Dials" while Bundle's bold detective actions drive the plot forward.
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Good People by Patmeena Sabit review addictive mystery caters to modern attention spans

A novel uses short testimonies to unravel a teenager's death while exposing immigrant family dynamics, communal gossip, wealth-driven envy, and cultural tensions.
Books
fromThe New Yorker
2 months ago

The Gospel According to Emily Henry

Emily Henry channels rom-com sensibility and religious upbringing to create a fresh, cinematic-influenced romance novel blending humor, nostalgia, and emotional depth.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry review a dazzling puzzle-box of a debut

We are initiated into a world in which historically accurate foodstuffs can be ordered online a half oyster shell, the exposed flesh shining as if with the freshest brine, is 31.25 for a single piece and begin to understand one of the most striking things about this novel: its insistence upon detail, its utter specificity, set against a deliberate lack of specificity regarding the larger details that the reader's mind naturally itches to fill in.
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fromEngadget
1 month ago

What to read this weekend: The unsettling new horror novel, Persona

A trans woman uncovers non-consensual pornography of herself and is drawn into escalating horrors involving identity, exploitation, internet influence, and economic precarity.
#gothic-romance
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Seven by Joanna Kavenna review a madcap journey to the limits of philosophy

Seven is an uncategorisable, idea-rich novel blending academic satire, absurdism, travel, and philosophical inquiry through a narrator's quest linked to a mythical game.
fromVulture
1 month ago

Yes, Wuthering Heights Is a 'Hurlevent'

"Hurlevent": Is that like when you watch 28 Years Later? Is it some kind of French adjective that's like, "This movie is so emotional you'll cry until you yak"? Even so, why would the cast and crew of the film take photos in front of a random word and not, say, the title of the film? These questions, while well-intentioned, proved very stupid:
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