Heavenly

When it comes to doing business — not startups but that other kind of business for which you have a whole separate room in your house — we need to talk about wipes. Wet wipes are great for your tush, but awful for the environment. It turns out not everyone is fond of dry wiping, but while bidets and smart toilets are on the uptick, they’re typically pretty expensive. For a few years, the startup Fohm had a solution: a specially formulated soap that can be dispensed onto toilet paper, turning…

Dutch author Lucas Rijneveld (formerly Marieke Lucas Rijneveld) won the International Booker prize with his debut, The Discomfort of Evening, narrated by a farmer’s daughter coaxed into sex games with her siblings after their brother dies in a freak accident. There are scenes involving pilfered vials of bull sperm and an insemination gun; the protagonist, aged 12 by the end of the book, fantasises about the tongue of a local vet who tells her how pretty she is. For overseas readers, it evoked “Ian Macabre”-era McEwan, but…

My Heavenly Favourite, the second novel from acclaimed Dutch author Lucas Rijneveld, belongs to a tiny, controversial subgenre: novels about child sex abuse rendered in exquisite prose. It is all the more transgressive in that it’s narrated by the abuser, who addresses his victim in an incantatory, unflinchingly graphic second-person rant about his eternal love. Such a book has to clear a very high bar not to seem like a cynical exercise. Rijneveld’s novel leaps effortlessly over, with room to spare.The narrator is a…

One of the most exciting new animated series this year is Hazbin Hotel, a Prime Video series from Vivienne Medrano that tells the surreal tale of Charlie Morningstar (voiced by Erika Henningsen), the princess of Hell, who tires of an annual purge whereby angels descend from Heaven to smite demons, and, along with her girlfriend Vaggie (Stephanie Beatriz), creates the Hazbin Hotel — a rehab clinic of sorts for those in Hell so that they can gain entry into the Kingdom of Heaven. Medrano’s series is bolstered by…

Amelia Fletcher and Rob Pursey met a little under 40 years ago, when they were both students at Oxford. Fletcher (later awarded the CBE for her services to the economy) and her friend Elizabeth Price (a future Turner prize-winning artist) turned up at Pursey’s room (he later became a TV producer) to see whether he wanted to join the band the pair of them had just formed, inspired by girl groups, the Buzzcocks, the Pastels and the bands on Postcard Records.“We didn’t actually check whether you could play bass,” Fletcher…

Last month, Amazon confirmed that, after a lengthy hiatus, Good Omens was coming back for a second season on Prime Video — and now, we have our very first look. The new season once again stars Michael Sheen and David Tennant as unlikely (and unholy) buddies, and this time around, they have to deal with the sudden disappearance of archangel Gabriel (Jon Hamm).The initial season of the show was based on the novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, while season 2 “explores storylines that go beyond the original source…

Last month, the 90-minute documentary Lewis Capaldi: How I’m Feeling Now premiered on Netflix. Its effect on the singer’s sales figures was almost instantaneous. Singles that were dropping out of the charts suddenly reversed their course. When his latest, Wish You the Best, came in at No 1, Capaldi had three singles in the Top 20. For good measure, he also had a Top 5 album, 2019’s deathless Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent having also enjoyed its umpteenth surge in sales and streams.The artwork for Broken By…

Mehul Reuben DasDec 19, 2022 13:14:34 ISTPro– The sound quality– The ANC– The comfort– The transparency mode– 24-bit Audio, if you’re using it with a Samsung device Con– Long list of Samsung exclusive features– No multipoint Bluetooth  Price: Rs 17,999 Rating: 4.5/5 The Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro that Samsung offered us last year, was pretty good – it greatly improved upon the true ANC functionalities that the Galaxy Bud Live had, sounded pretty good, and best of all, it had a good design and fit. This year’s Samsung Galaxy…

PlayStation Plus' monthly free games for November 2022 have been announced. These titles will be available to members of PS Plus Essential, Extra, and Deluxe/ Premium plans, starting next week. On November 1, PS Plus subscribers gain access to the Japan-set Soulslike sequel Nioh 2, the entire Lego Harry Potter Collection, and the atmospheric indie gem Heavenly Bodies. These titles can be added to your PS games library until December 5, after which you will be required to hold onto your subscriptions to play them.Sony…

(And some building block wizarding game) There must come a time when a prominent leaker becomes so expected that they might as well be hired by the publisher — Such is the case of leak-like-clockwork Dealabs user billbil-kun, who is once again out of the gate early with the PlayStation Plus Essential titles heading to all subscribers in November. According to billbil-kun, next month will see PS Plus gain access to three new games: Team Ninja’s celebrated action-RPG Nioh 2 (PS4/PS5), intergalactic gravity challenge…