Longreads

Judi Dench. Photograph: Francois Duhamel At one point sitting opposite Dame Judi Dench over a pot of tea at a hotel in Covent Garden, I find myself asking her if she has that recurrent dream, the one…

Video of a woman being attacked in Guwahati, Assam, has sparked outrage in India. In an ashram perched high on a hill above the noisy city of Guwahati in north-east India is a small exhibit…

Wall St, Manhattan during filming of The Dark Knight Rises. Photograph: LMK THE BEGINNINGS Walter Pfister. Photograph: Alexa Hann/WireImage Wally Pfister, cinematographer

In the second half of the 20th century, western consumers were treated to an unprecedented array of high-quality, low-cost food. Monochrome national cuisines were spiced up by immigration,…

Jeffrey Mitchell, a volunteer firefighter in the suburbs of Baltimore, came across the accident by chance: A car had smashed into a pickup truck loaded with metal pipes. Mitchell tried to help, but…

He may live a modest life in a one-horse town, but Jimmy Carter, now 86, retains his global vision. And 30 years after leaving the White House, the peanut farmer turned president is still a man on mission. In Plains, Georgia, we found the 39th US president full of energy… and determined to make a difference