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‘Every sentence will be put under pressure’: how we make our Long Reads unputdownable

From plot twists to stunning visuals, our flagship long-form journalism can be as gripping as any beach read. To mark the publication of the summer issue of the Guardian Long Read...

Sitdown Sunday: A travel writer visited Dublin. Her must-see destination? A supermarket

Settle down in a comfy chair with some of the week’s best longreads.

Sitdown Sunday: The crime writer who believes he has finally identified the Zodiac Killer

Settle down in a comfy chair with some of the week’s best longreads.

Longform links: entertaining the reader

Thursdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. Wherever possible, free links for premium sites are used. You can check out...

Where the Serious Argument Happens

A Reader’s Guide to the World’s Foreign-Policy Journals — and How to Read ThemContinue reading on Medium »

Longform links: knowing stuff

Thursdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. Wherever possible, free links for premium sites are used. You can check out...

Sitdown Sunday: Markéta Irglová and the late Glen Hansard on making music together

Settle down in a comfy chair with some of the week’s best longreads.

Five Great Reads: Perils of high-impact exercise, the journo taking on big tech and birthdayzillas

The Guardian’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Jacqueline HousdenGet this in your inbox every weekend. Sign up for Five Great Reads hereGood m...

10 Weekend Reads

The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Danish Blend coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • On Quality: An ode to Pirsig: What quality...

Sam’s Links: July Edition

Sam Enright works on innovation policy at Progress Ireland, an independent policy think tank in Dublin, and runs a publication called The Fitzwilliam. Most relevant to us, on his p...

Sitdown Sunday: Can a solar eclipse impact the brain?

Settle down in a comfy chair with some of the week’s best longreads.

10 Weekend Reads

The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Danish Blend coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • The Clocks on One Building: Four-Year Lease...

The Sunday Papers

Sundays are for looking back at the week and honestly just thinking, yeesh, what are you doing, working in an industry that’s succumbed so deeply and so wilfully to moral decay. Th...

Trendy Politics: When Reels Become Our Political Compass

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”— Thomas JeffersonJefferson’s words were written centuries ag...

Two Weeks in Review: 27 July—7 August 2026

‘We like lists, because we don’t want to die.’ At least according to Umberto Eco. He had in mind our love of all things limitless when confronted with our own very discouraging, hu...

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Before It Is Too Late

Sometimes I really enjoy reading, and what I read depends on what I am looking for. Some of my favorites are Gibran and Hans Christian…Continue reading on Medium »

Think. Over the week

Think. Over the week

Think. Over the week

10 Weekend Reads

The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Danish Blend coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • How Bots Took Over Our Lives: The New Yorke...

Briefly Noted Book Reviews

“Talking Classics,” “The Cruelty of Nice Folks,” “Glyph,” and “A Real Animal.”

10 Weekend Reads

The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Danish Blend coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • Who Pays the Cost When Americans Opt Out of...

Opinion – 19 August 2026

Paul Avis Church Times Ask yourself: What can I do for the General Synod? Savitri (Savi) Hensman ViaMedia.News Far-right Threat: Why the Bishops’ Take on “National Unity” is not en...