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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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Tom Graham found The Overnighters a compelling portrait of contemporary America

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Joel Casey is impressed with a moody Jake Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler

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Kayleigh Tompkins is let down by the 'lacklustre' new record from Simple Minds

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Bethan Roberts ponders the significance of the famous obscenity trial

The naked truth about sex in the arts

Naomi Polonsky explores the portrayal of sex in Western culture from the Classical to the contemporary

Review: Neil Young – Storytone

Lata Nobes finds something amiss in Young's new album

Review: Deptford Goth – Songs

Has Deptford Goth lost its touch? Luke Barratt reviews the 'pedestrian' new release

Butt-plugs aren’t as edgy as they were

Isaac Goodwin hates Paul McCarthy and his provocative artworks

Review: Freud’s Auerbach Collection at the Tate

Sabhbh Curran likes what she sees at the Tate’s intimate tribute to a unique artistic friendship

Review: Dahling You Were Marvellous

Steven Berkoff's masterful satire is as tight as a drum, but comedically inconsistent, says Fergus Morgan

Review: Superfood — Don’t Say That

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull is left unsatisfied by the 'inane mass' that is Superfood's new album

Review: Old Times

This faithful recreation of one of Pinter’s most wired, unyielding plays explores the tones and half-tones of memory, manipulation, and sexuality

Review: Serena

This confused and tactless drama left Sam Joyce disconnected from any sense of emotional involvement

Review: Love, Rosie

Rosie Sykes found this tale of living with the life choices we make a lurching, clumsy affair
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