Pop culture news for readers: November 19, 2025

Here's how pop culture and literature have been intersecting lately ... 

• Adele is the latest musician to appear in a literary screen adaptation; she’ll star in the movie version of Anne Rice’s Cry to Heaven (Variety).

• Charli XCX has unveiled the first original song for the movie adaptation of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights; House is a collaboration with John Cale of Velvet Underground (Pitchfork).

• The final season of the TV show Outlander — based on Diana Gabaldon’s novels — will premiere March 6 on Starz (The Hollywood Reporter).