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Compelling long reads

1843 | The Kremlin put her on trial. She stole the show

Why did the Russian state go after an experimental theatre director?

28 min read

1843 | How two duelling history influencers explain South Korea’s polarised politics

The country’s recent brush with martial law has deep roots

29 min read

1843 | How one man got off death row in a country with a 99% conviction rate

Hakamada Iwao spent almost 50 years on death row. It took decades for him to receive an astonishing exoneration

30 min read

1843 | The education of Steve Witkoff

Trump’s envoy was determined to get the Gaza hostages out. Instead he got schooled in Middle East politics

25 min read

1843 | The jailed tycoon battling the Chinese state

Li Yonghui’s campaign from behind bars comes at an inconvenient moment for the Communist Party

21 min read

1843 | The untold story of Bolsonaro’s weird and wild coup attempt

How Brazil’s ex-president and his cronies tried to take down democracy

26 min read

1843 | The Pushkin heist: who is stealing rare editions of Russian classics?

Nearly 200 volumes have gone missing from libraries across Europe. Some suspect it is another “special operation” 

28 min read

1843 | The great Syrian beach trip

A visit to the seaside once risked arrest and torture. Now people are soaking up the sun

11 min read

1843 | Anatomy of a famine: how Gaza has starved

Aid workers are wondering if they are complicit in Israeli policy

26 min read

1843 | Dying for gold: who killed the miners of Buffelsfontein?

South Africa’s government blockaded hundreds underground. The results were deadly

31 min read

1843 | Would you pass the world’s toughest exam?

Thirty million Indians want a job on the railways, but a fiendish general-knowledge test stands in their way

26 min read

1843 | One William Woods was telling the truth. The other was living his life

How a decades-long deception saw an innocent man end up in jail

29 min read