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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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Lata Nobes is less than impressive by this popstar's debut

Review: Rae Morris – Unguarded

Rachael Griffith gives the seal of approval to Rae Morris's debut album

"Good people, good drinkers and no bigots"

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull talks to Gareth Campesinos!, Los Campesinos!'s frontman

Preview: Dido and Aeneas

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull previews a newly produced student opera

Preview: Music for Madagascar

Felix Klos gives you a taster of what to expect at this Saturday's jazz concert for charity, featuring Dot's Funk Odyssey, The Oxford Gargoyles and The New Men

Review: Potosí

Fergus Morgan is charmed by this innocent, amusing and quintessentially human piece of student writing

Voices from the Past: Virginia Woolf

Cherwell analyses Woolf's views on the power and potential of words in the only recording of her voice

Review: Ex Machina

Anthony Maskell finds novelist Alex Garland's debut to be full of pertinent questions about humans and technology

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

Milestones: Restoration Comedy

Bethan Roberts reflects on the rise of raunchy theatre following Charles II's return to the throne

From funny to f*cked: is the British sitcom dead?

Jamie Tahsin examines the failing health of this formerly great genre

Freakshow Television

Eve Beere argues that our fascination with voyeuristic TV about others' bodies stems from our sense of superiority to them

Review: American Sniper

Clint Eastwood's latest film is little more than an exercise in wartime propaganda, and it grates

Forget Magna Carta: discover the oldest English law codes

Elliot Langley explores the recently digitised manuscript of the Textus Roffensis

Loading the Canon: Darkness at Noon

Ben Cooke calls for the addition of Arthur Koestler's chilling novel to the literary establishment

“Who are you?” Grayson Perry wants to find out

Alex Peplow reviews Perry’s latest exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery

Preview: The Effect

Mark Barclay previews an upcoming production of Lucy Prebble’s The Effect

Review: The Woman in Black

Fergus Morgan relishes the theatrical subtelty of this classic ghost story

Review: Bj̦rk РVulnicura

Sara Semic is drawn in by the Scandinavian singer-songwriter's avant-garde breakup album

Review: Viet Cong – Viet Cong

Freddy Rendall is pleasantly surprised by the self-titled debut album from the Canadian band
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