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From the archive: The last humanist: how Paul Gilroy became the most vital guide to our age of crisis
We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
‘The English person with a Chinese stomach’: how Fuchsia Dunlop became a Sichuan food hero
The author has been explaining Sichuan cuisine to westerners for decades. But ‘Fu Xia’, as she’s known, has had a profound effect on food lovers in C…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The dangerous rise of Buddhist extremism: ‘Attaining nirvana can wait’
Still largely viewed as a peaceful philosophy, across much of south-east Asia, the religion has been weaponised to serve nationalist goals By Sonia F…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
From the archive: Kudos, leaderboards, QOMs: how fitness app Strava became a religion
We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Hard to digest: we still live in Fast Food Nation
Twenty-five years after I revealed the practices of the industrial food giants, the profits – and dangers – of mass producing meat and milk have only…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
‘I wish I could say I kept my cool’: my maddening experience with the NHS wheelchair service
After I was paralysed in a climbing accident, I discovered how inconsiderate, illogical and incompetent many wheelchair providers can be By Paul Saga…
2 months ago
From the archive: The cartel, the journalist and the gangland killings that rocked the Netherlands
We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, …
2 months ago
Inside the rise and fall of Podemos: ‘We believed we had a stake in the future’
The leftist party exploded out of Spain’s anti-austerity protests in 2011 and upended Spain’s entrenched two-party system. I was instantly captivated…
2 months ago
Best of 2025: ‘A relentless, destructive energy’: inside the trial of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon
Every Monday and Friday for the rest of December we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2025, in case you missed them, with an int…
2 months, 1 week ago
Best of 2025: ‘What reconciliation? What forgiveness?’: Syria’s deadly reckoning
Every Monday and Friday for the rest of December we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2025, in case you missed them, with an int…
2 months, 1 week ago