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Publications

The Guardian

Crime World

Blow Up: How Half a Tonne of Cocaine Transformed the Life of an Island

What happens when a great deal of cocaine suddenly washes up on the shores of a very small island.

Matthew Bremner The Guardian May 2019 20min Permalink

Health

'For Five Years We Dreaded Every Meal'

After two months in the hospital, a mother finally got to take her premature baby home. Then she spent five years trying to convince him to eat.

Tahmima Anam The Guardian Apr 2019 35min Permalink

Arts

Fifty Shades of White

The long fight against racism in romance novels.

Lois Beckett The Guardian Apr 2019 30min Permalink

His Side of the Story

Nathan Phillips wants to talk about Covington.

Julian Brave NoiseCat The Guardian Feb 2019 20min Permalink

Health

Bowel Movement

On the Squatty Potty and changing the way the you poop.

Alex Blasdel The Guardian Dec 2018 20min Permalink

Sports

Field of Dreams

Heartbreak and heroics at the World Ploughing Championships

Sophie Elmhirst The Guardian Nov 2018 25min Permalink

Music

Interviewing Lou Reed: Not a Perfect Day

An interview gone awry.

Simon Hattenstone The Guardian May 2003 10min Permalink

Tech

Video games: The Addiction

Tom Bissell was an acclaimed young writer when he started playing Grand Theft Auto. For the last three years he has been sleep deprived, cocaine fueled, and barely able to write a word—and he has no regrets.

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Tom Bissell on the Longform Podcast

Tom Bissell The Guardian Mar 2010 20min Permalink

Music

How Robyn Transformed Pop

A profile.

Laura Snapes The Guardian Sep 2018 25min Permalink

Best Article Politics

“This Guy Doesn’t Know Anything”

The inside story of Trump’s transition team.

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Excerpted from The Fifth Risk

Michael Lewis The Guardian Sep 2018 15min Permalink

Business World

The Real Goldfinger: the London Banker Who Broke the World

The invention of offshore banking.

Oliver Bullough The Guardian Sep 2018 15min Permalink

Country Pride: What I Learned Growing Up in Rural America

For me, country was not a look, a style, or even a conscious attitude, but a physical place, its experience defined by distance from the forces of culture that would commodify it.

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Excerpted from Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth.

Sarah Smarsh The Guardian Sep 2018 15min Permalink

How to Be Human

Meet the man who was raised by wolves.

Matthew Bremner The Guardian Aug 2018 20min Permalink

Dear Mr. President

Barack Obama and a tradition of letter-reading.

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Excerpted from To Obama: With Love, Joy, Anger, and Hope.

Jeanne Marie Laskas The Guardian Aug 2018 15min Permalink

World

BDS: How a Controversial Non-violent Movement Has Transformed the Israeli-Palestinian Debate

Is Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions existential threat, a last resort, or both?

Nathan Thrall The Guardian Aug 2018 30min Permalink

Politics

How the American Left Is Rediscovering Morality

On the emergence of morality and spirituality on the American left.

Sarah Smarsh The Guardian Aug 2018 15min Permalink

Arts Crime

The Ugly Scandal That Cancelled the Nobel Prize

“The academy’s prestige has been shattered, probably forever,” by allegations of sexual harassment and corruption.

Andrew Brown The Guardian Jul 2018 20min Permalink

Science Health

‘Nothing to Worry About. The Water is Fine’: How Flint Poisoned its People

When the people of Flint, Michigan, complained that their tap water smelled bad and made children sick, it took officials 18 months to accept there was a problem.

Anna Clark The Guardian Jul 2018 20min Permalink

Best Article Business

The Spectacular Power of Big Lens

The rise of an amazing optical corporation and the future of our eyes.

Sam Knight The Guardian May 2018 35min Permalink

Movies & TV

The Woman Who Turns Actors into Stars

A profile of casting director Nina Gold.

Sophie Elmhirst The Guardian Apr 2018 25min Permalink

Crime

The Murder that Shook Iceland

How the killing of a 20-year-old woman upended a nation’s sense of itself.

Xan Rice The Guardian Apr 2018 20min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

Death in the Snow

In 2001, a young Japanese woman walked into the North Dakota woods and froze to death. Had she come in search of the $1 million dollars buried nearby in the film Fargo?

Paul Berczeller The Guardian Jun 2003 15min Permalink

Politics Tech

The Cambridge Analytica Files: Meet the Data War Whistleblower

“I created Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool.”

Carole Cadwalladr The Guardian Mar 2018 25min Permalink

Tech World

Why Silicon Valley Billionaires are Prepping for the Apocalypse in New Zealand

How an extreme libertarian tract predicting the collapse of liberal democracies – written by Jacob Rees-Mogg’s father – inspired the likes of Peter Thiel to buy up property across the Pacific

Mark O'Connell The Guardian Feb 2018 25min Permalink

Politics Religion

The Fight for the Right to be Muslim in America

A bitter legal row over a mosque in an affluent New Jersey town shows the new face of Islamophobia in the age of Trump.

Andrew Rice The Guardian Feb 2018 30min Permalink

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