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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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Loading the Canon: Barbara Pym

Lily McIlwain calls for the addition of Barbara Pym to the literary establishment

Death of a Playwright: Arthur Miller remembered

10 years on, Emma Irving looks back at the work of one of the Twentieth Century’s greatest writers

Review: The Duchess of Malfi

Zara Brownless enjoys this modernised version of the Renaissance tragedy

Review: King Lear

Mark Barclay reviews this original, cinematic reinvention of one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies

Voices from the Past: Sylvia Plath

Hear Plath reading her own poetic account of her tortured relationship with her father

Review: Captain Amazing

Anna Zanetti reviews this one man show at the BT Studio

Preview: Blood Wedding

Lata Nobes gets a sneak peak at the new adaptation of Lorca's Blood Wedding

The Author: The Atrocity Exhibition

Michael Roderick discusses the rehearsed reading of The Author, part of the OUDS New Writing Festival

Oscar Predictions – 2015

Which films will win big on Oscar night, and which films ought to? Toby Scadding airs his views

Review: Selma

Clara-Læïla Laudette finds Selma to be a powerful and politically motivating film

Review: Jupiter Ascending

Emmanuelle Soffe saw Jupiter Ascending as a film that failed to take off

Review: OUDS New Writing Festival

Bethan Roberts reviews four plays by upcoming writers

Preview: King Lear

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull sees promise in this production

Picks of the Week HT15 Week 6

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

Milestones: landmark gay moments on TV

Cherwell picks out key moments in cultural history. This week, Ollie Johnson charts some of the landmark gay moments in TV

It’s time to say bi to the straight and narrow

Bethan Roberts scrutinises the presentation of bisexuality on television

We should stop fetishising independent bookstores

Lily McIlwain’s tour of Oxford’s bookshops raises some questions concerning student ‘support’

Oxford International Art Fair

Mark Barclay is seriously unimpressed with both paintings and prices

Loading the Canon: Ian Hamilton

Ben Cooke calls for the addition of poet and critic Ian Hamilton to the literary establishment

Where are they now: Toni Basil

Cherwell delves into the later careers of one-hit-wonders so you don’t have to...
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