The Portal

The Portal: 16 February 2026

With the new film adaptation of Wuthering Heights getting people hot under the collar (though perhaps not in the way the filmmakers hoped) we go back to 1978 and Kate Bush’s song named for the gothic novel by Emily Brontë. Robyn has a new album out next month, so we’ve dug up a 2010 Black Sky Thinking about the rise of the female robots in pop aesthetics, from the Swedish star to Janelle Monae. She also features in Rachel Aggs’ 2021 Baker’s Dozen, so you can also find that below. This week’s second archival BD is from the great Jon Spencer. Adrian Sherwood and African Head Charge play at London’s Barbican Centre this week; we’ve got a refresher on their Strange World. As the weekend our John Doran wrote for The Guardian about how Wolf Eyes ‘Stabbed In The Face’ is a romantic ditty in his relationship – we’ve Wolf Eyes’ guide to their craziest gigs below. There’s also a film piece on how Guillermo Del Toro reinvented the fairy tale, and an interview with Kode9 and Spaceape. Finally, from the Subscriber archive we’ve got novelist Eliza Clark on what playing Crusader Kings 3 taught her about human nature. Thanks, as ever, for reading tQ.