High stakes

When Tom Stoppard died in November, he left behind over 30 stage plays. But it was to Arcadia, his story of a Regency-era girl genius, that the obituarists most frequently returned. In Thomasina Cover

Theatre: Dracula Noël Coward Theatre, London WC2 ...

THE MARK OF A GREAT, TOUGH BOOK MAY NOT be how many literature classes it’s taught in but how many film or TV adaptations you can drape on its branches without breaking them. Dramatizations are tricky

IT’S TAKEN OVER 90 YEARS, BUT FINALLY HERE COMES , AS MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL GIVES NEW LIFE – AND A VOICE – TO ONE OF UNIVERSAL HORROR’S MOST ICONIC CREATIONS FOR A FEMINIST, PUNK ROCK TALE OF AMOUR FOU

LETTERS

Konstantin Vaginov Goat Song and The Works and Days of Whistlin Translated by Ainsley Morse with Geoff Cebula 376pp. New York Review Books. Paperback, £17.99. Had a new translation of Konstantin Vagin