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“What is a good life?”: The Standard of Living in review 

“What is a good life?” This axiological question, asked earnestly in the opening lines of James Graham’s The Standard of Living – playing at Theatre Royal Haymarket until December 12 – is often overlooked by the fractured and hyper-specialised discipline of economics.
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Diverse voices: ‘Inshallah, Madonna, Inshallah’ by Miljenko Jergović 

‘When he created Earth and these lands upon it, when he divided people into...
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Art as protest on university campuses

CW: rape. This week, Cornell University has made headlines as prosecutors reopened an investigation into...
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Good grief! Why do we feel for the death of fictional people?

Whether it’s a mild sniffle or full-blown tears, I always end up feeling a bit ridiculous about the whole ordeal when it’s over. I mean, it’s not real, is it? Why do I waste my grief on things that haven’t happened, that will never happen?
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Joan of Arc — “Tell the boys their time is through”

Bethan Roberts examines the visual and literary representation of the fifteenth century tomboy

‘He that hath no beard is less than a man’

Trina Wilson plucks at the beard of past and present and discusses defying gendered casting in Shakespeare

Review: Conjure

Clara-Læïla Laudette sees wasted potential in Conjure

Review: Never Mind Where Your Daughter Lies

Paul Ostwald is intrigued by Never Mind Where Your Daughter Lies

Review: Punk Rock

Mark Barclay enjoys this gritty if slightly exaggerated school play

Monumental Art: Anselm Kiefer

Connie Sjodin discusses Anselm Kiefer's Margarete

Legacies of a troubled past

Michael Burns considers the impact of murals in Northern Ireland

Should we be less snobbish about Chick Lit?

Why on earth would you read Leo Tolstoy when you could read Jilly Cooper?

Preview: Elephants

Mark Barclay savours this bitchy domestic drama

Review: Clouds of Sils Maria

Sam Joyce is beguiled by Olivier Assayas' cerebral, sublime new film

Top 5 songs to make you enjoy subfusc even more

Rachael Griffith gives you five songs to really celebrate the result of the referendum

Picks of the Week TT15 Week 6

Cherwell brings you the best of this week's gigs, plays and events

Milestones: Dancing in the Street

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull discusses why Mick Jagger and David Bowie’s hit cover ‘Dancing in the Street’ (1985) is a landmark of cultural stagnation

In Defence of: The Holiday

Anthony Maskell calls Nancy Meyer's holiday rom-com a feel good guilty pleasure

Preview: Festivals 2015

Kieran Vaghela takes you through the highs and lows of this summer's line up

Shuffling on the page: the perils of dance notation

Beatrice Liese explores the development and difficulties of recording movement without a camera

Review: Mariah Carey – #1 to Infinity

Sam Joyce is wary of this rehash of greatest hits

Pre-drinks and petticoats: the ceilidh in modern society

Trina Wilson smashes all the stereotypes and lays the truth about traditional Scottish dancing

Review: Brandon Flowers: The Desired Effect

Jamie Heredge is wowed by Brandon Flower's second solo attempt

Interview: Young Fathers

Ben Murphy chats with ‘G’ Hastings, from the Mercury Prize-winning band
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