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Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights is a dark parable about coercive control

Coercive or controlling behaviour in an intimate or family relationship became a criminal offence in the UK in December 2015. The legislation was the result of a long campaign by the charity Women’s Aid to extend understanding of domestic abuse beyond physical violence. But, over 150 years earlier, Emily Brontë…

The Conversation

For the first time in 35 years, I’m having to use a pen and paper. Help!

To think, until nearly the end of the last century, everyone had to write like this, says Adrian Chiles

The Guardian - UK

We don’t have the swagger of Manchester or the sheen of Leeds, but Bradford has a radical culture all its own

The city of culture celebrations will show the truth breadth of our community, from the Brontës to the working-class plays of Andrea Dunbar, says Lanre Bakare, Guardian arts correspondent

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‘Still so relatable’: how teenage discovery of the Brontës fostered career in literature

Lucy Powrie was 15 when she read Agnes Grey. Ten years on she is chair of the Brontë Parsonage Museum

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‘One of the most beloved writers of all time’: the genius of Joan Aiken at 100

From Willoughby Chase to Black Hearts in Battersea, Joan Aiken’s tales of plucky orphans surviving in industrial Britain are a keystone of children’s literature

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‘Lady Gaga went to our chippy’: how Yorkshire became a cultural powerhouse

English Teacher won the Mercury prize, Amy Gledhill won the Edinburgh comedy award – and now even Beyoncé wants a piece of the action. Why has ‘God’s own county’ become such an artistic force?

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‘The UK is invited’: Bradford reveals 2025 City of Culture lineup

West Yorkshire city to host magic, music, film and theatre performances celebrating local talent, plus Turner prize

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Wuthering fights: the play that shows the Brontës were bigger backstabbers than the Kardashians

Rivalries, putdowns, betrayals … director Natalie Ibu explains why she is thrilled to be making her National Theatre debut with an award-winning play about the famous writing sisters

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Reader, they lived there: campaign to save Brontës’ Bradford birthplace as it goes on sale

A crowdfunding drive led by TV presenter Christa Ackroyd aims to make the first Bradford home of the literary siblings a tourist destination and source of inspiration

The Guardian - UK

The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – reviews roundup

Out There Screaming edited by Jordan Peele; A Haunting on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand; Lamb by Matt Hill; My Brother’s Keeper by Tim Powers

The Guardian - UK

Review: Wuther true or false, 'Emily' weaves a passionate portrait of a Brontë sister

"Wuthering Heights" was first published in 1847 under the name Ellis Bell — a pseudonym for Emily Brontë, of course, and one that she adopted in tandem with her sisters Charlotte and Anne, in their individual novels as well as a book of poetry. "Jane Eyre" was published under Currer…

Los Angeles Times

‘Storytelling has become the art of world building’: Avatar and the rise of the paracosm

James Cameron’s sequel to his 2009 fantasy epic continues cinema’s love of imaginary worlds formed in childhood that have produced some of film’s most bankable blockbusters

The Guardian - UK

The Moors review – deliciously dark Brontë pastiche

The characters might be the Brontës themselves or they might be from novels such as Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, mashed-up with wandering strays from a zombie movie

The Guardian - UK

Emily movie review: Emma Mackey blazes but the Brontës deserve better

Frequently scintillating, but ultimately Frances O’Connor’s directing debut disappoints

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I Am No Bird review – stripping back the Brontës’ chocolate-box history

This anarchic show casts off the corsets to capture just what made these literary sisters so striking

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