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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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Bethan Roberts previews an upcoming metatheatrical comedy

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Anna Zanetti reviews this Lars von Trier adaptation

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Hannah Dewhirst checks out an upcoming production at Regent's Park

Review: Paddington

Anthony Maskell finds the Peruvian bear's first outing on the silver screen to be a huggable affair

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Bitter Lake is a robust critique of modern geopolitics, writes Kyran Schmidt

Review: Mortdecai

Sam Joyce thinks that Mortdecai is another nail in the coffin of Johnny Depp’s career

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Katherine Cowles previews this new student show ahead of its run at The Burton Taylor

Anti-celebrity rules OK. Long live Baldwin.

Ollie Johnson examines the hypocrisy of the famous rejecting fame

Milestones: Bowling for Columbine

Fergus Morgan reflects on Michael Moore's seminal examination of America's gun problem

Secrets of Venice

Nathan Stazicker shows us a path less travelled through Venice

Bali’s Beauty

Emma Snashall takes us through the backstreets of Bali in this series of stunning photos

Monumental art: Donatello’s St George

Anna Zanetti highlights one of art’s great masterpieces

Loading the Canon: When God Looked the Other Way

Iweta Kalinowska calls for the addition of Wesley Adamczyk’s personal tale of suffering to the literary establishment

Yvonne Owuor: sometimes people are places too

Paul Ostwald talks to the leading Kenyan writer about her novel 'Dust' and her country’s voice

Review: Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Fay Watson reviews this darkly comic David Foster Wallace adaptation

Review: Dido and Aeneas – A St Peter’s success story

Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull finds St Peter's College's production of Purcell's Baroque opera a raging success

Where Are They Now?: Blazin’ Squad

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