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A Year in Reading: Power to the People
Incorrigible, insightful, inspiring: the incredible people of 2024.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
“Featuring reads from Grace Glass and Sasha Tycko, Max Graham, Alex Blasdel, James Somers, and Ben Goldfarb.”
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The Strange Survival of Guinness World Records
“For more than half a century, one organisation has been cataloguing all of life’s superlatives.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Featuring stories from Charlotte Bailey, Hanif Abdurraqib, Taylar Dawn Stagnar, Patrick Madden, and Kevin Chroust.
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‘One Billionaire at a Time’: Inside the Swiss Clinics Where the Super-Rich Go For Rehab
“For the ultra-wealthy and the super-famous, regular therapy won’t do.”
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‘Dad Said: We’re Going to Follow Captain Cook’: How an Endless Round-the-World Voyage Stole My Childhood
“In 1976, Suzanne Heywood’s father decided to take the family on a three-year sailing ‘adventure’ – and then just kept going. It was a journey into fear, isolation and danger.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week we have stories from Christopher Johnston and Erin Quinlan, Dan McQuade, Crystal Wilkinson, Simon Akam, and Nicholson Baker.
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Three Abandoned Children, Two Missing Parents And a 40-year Mystery
“Good people, she felt, end up doing bad things for many reasons.”
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Long Live the Rom-Com
Love, Actually, Never Died: A reading list on the evolution of the romantic comedy.
