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On a cool spring evening, a woman prepares risotto in the spartan kitchen of a hunting lodge, eats it alone, and scoops some out for the dog. The next morning, she makes a startling discovery: At some point during the night, an invisible, impermeable barrier has appeared outside, dividing her from much of the Austrian countryside. She calls it, simply, “the wall.” When she presses her hand to it, it feels “like a windowpane.” She beats it with her fist; it holds. She walks alongside it to locate where it ends; it doesn’t. (Later, when it becomes clear that everyone on the other side of the wall has died, their corpses petrified like “stone,” she decides she’d rather remain separated from “the incomprehensible thing” that had happened to them.) She is stranded; she is completely alone. Presumably, every person she knew and loved—her two daughters, her friends—is on the other side; she will never see them again. The Wall , Marlen Haushofer’s brutal and absorbing dystopian novel, … [Read more...] about A Radical Feminist Vision of Total Escape

When Ella Mills, 31, says that her life is ‘on fast-forward’ it’s hard to disagree. Just ten years ago, as a student, she started the blog Deliciously Ella, detailing her recovery from debilitating illness through meditation and plant-based recipes. Today, Deliciously Ella is a multifaceted lifestyle brand with projected revenues for 2022 of £20 million (putting the company’s value at around £60 million) and over two million Instagram followers. In 2012, plant-based eating was a niche concern. ‘But now 50 per cent of the UK population are into it,’ she says. Clearly there is a lot of money to be made from cacao nibs. Ella and her family (husband and Deliciously Ella’s CEO Matthew Mills, 38, and their daughters Skye, three, and May, nearly two) live just off London ’s Kensington Church Street, where houses sell for north of £5 million, but Ella insists their lifestyle is not lavish. She can’t drive and her husband Matthew’s car is a secondhand BMW. Their last holiday was four days … [Read more...] about THE £60 MILLION BRAND THAT TOOK (CACAO) BALLS TO BUILD! Ella Mills opens up about family, fame and facing down her haters

Evening briefing: Today's essential headlines Ukraine war | A female Russian commander who "boasted of how she enjoyed killing Ukrainians" has become the country's first senior woman officer to die. Lieutenant Colonel Olga 'Kursa' Kachura was killed when a Ukrainian missile struck her car as she drove in the city of Horlivka, in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. More on the war in our live blog . Investigation | Police Tasered 93-year-old disabled man in care home Archie Battersbee | Mother says she will give son 'mouth-to-mouth' Lilia Valutyte | CCTV emerges of murdered girl's final moments Pictured | Spectators flock to dramatic volcanic eruption in Iceland 'Staycation fatigue' | The end of great British summer holiday boom The big story: UK to enter year-long recession British families face the longest recession since the financial crisis and soaring prices, the Bank of England has warned, as a surge in energy bills will leave households … [Read more...] about Thursday evening UK news briefing: Bank of England warns of year-long recession

TO put it simply, the original Xbox was revolutionary. After Sega and Atari both bowed out of the console market, it looked like Nintendo and Sony were going to dominate the scene unchallenged. However, in March 2000 it became clear that wouldn’t be the case as Microsoft announced the Xbox . It launched in November 2001 and quickly took the world by storm. In the years since, Microsoft’s influence has shaped the games industry in countless ways. Game Pass, cloud saves, and in-game voice chats are all around today thanks to the innovations of Xbox. Innovation alone won’t sell a console though, and the original Xbox has a fantastic lineup of games. It was hard to pick out the best, but here they are. More in Xbox X-BOXED Xbox owners are about to lose access to HUNDREDS of games in major cull GAME ON All the video game releases coming on PS5, Xbox, Nintendo Switch and PC in 2022 Burnout 3: Takedown … [Read more...] about The 8 best original Xbox games of all time

SURVIVAL games are often a mixed bag, but these ones are the very best. The genre has become somewhat oversaturated in recent years thanks to YouTuber's obsession with them. It took off in a major way in the 2010s, and seemingly every indie developer on the planet wanted to have a go. This means there are plenty of cheap and terrible survival/crafting games out there for you to try. However, every now and then a shining beacon emerges from the rubble, a truly great survival game that has unique ideas and competent mechanics. It can often be hard to pick out these gems amongst all the rubbish, so we’re here to tell you the very best survival games on all platforms. More in Gaming XBOX OFFICE FLOP These tie-in games did not live up to the great movies they were based on START LIVING Live A Live: Beginner tips you should know before starting Whether you own a PlayStation , Xbox , Switch , or PC, you’ll … [Read more...] about The best survival games on PC and console