OUR TOP FIVE PICKS OF THE WEEK

John Blair Killing the Dead Vampire epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World 536pp. Princeton University Press. £30 (US $35). A dead body, as anyone who has sat with one will know, is an unsettling

Margot Robbie plays Catherine Earnshaw in a new, much-anticipated adaptation of Wuthering Heights

Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is set to be the most talked-about film of the year

Nouvelle Vague Various cinemas Blue Moon Available on streaming services Though cinema is the youngest art form – the tenth Muse, or seventh art, as the French have sometimes called it – it isn’t nece

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