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Halfway through writing her new book Vulture Capitalism, Grace Blakeley had what her mum called a “midlife crisis”. “I realised that the stuff that I was doing, and the way that I was making sense of what I was doing, was having a really negative impact on me and my mental health,” she says. “Just everything ... feeling constantly on edge, not really being able to engage with people in honest and open ways. There was a point at which I was like, ‘I don’t know if I can do this any more.’”Twenty-nine may sound a bit young…

Image: Marvel StudiosIn the comics, Binary is the superhero identity of Carol Danvers in the ‘80s, when she was a close ally of the X-Men and had previously had her abilities as Ms. Marvel depowered—and was in fact her de facto identity for much of the ‘80s and ‘90s. Give or take, she still has had those cosmic abilities on top of her usual ones ever since she returned to the Ms., and eventually Captain, Marvel mantles. Which means on film at least, we have now seen more universes where Maria Rambeau became Captain Marvel…

Screenshot: Marvel StudiosIts release is months away, but excitement is already building for Nia DaCosta’s The Marvels—which today revealed a new peek after that first trailer back in April.The Woman Who Would Be PhotonThe Marvel Studios team-up movie will embiggen the world of young Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani, reprising her Disney+ role), with the crossover of the teen heroine’s dreams—featuring her own personal idols Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) and Captain Marvel (Brie Larson). In this brand-new Marvels…