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# Longreads

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Sitdown Sunday: How indie authors are using AI to overcome writers block
Sitdown Sunday: The mystery of Michael Flatley's film Blackbird
Sitdown Sunday: Inside Boris Johnson's money network
Sitdown Sunday: Who benefitted from London's Olympics 2012 developments?
Sitdown Sunday: The disappearance of flight MH370
Sitdown Sunday: What did the ancient Maya see in the stars?
Sitdown Sunday: The faces from China's Uyghur detention camps
Sitdown Sunday: A crime beyond belief
Sitdown Sunday: How a university debating society shaped modern British politics
Sitdown Sunday: The secret life of mushrooms
Sitdown Sunday: Loving one dog while grieving another
Sitdown Sunday: How Russia's 'Google' has begun to crumble following the war in Ukraine
Sitdown Sunday: Can the world ditch fossil fuels?
Sitdown Sunday: Inside the restoration of Notre Dame cathedral
Sitdown Sunday: The nation that's banishing light
Sitdown Sunday: Rescued after falling deep inside a cave
Sitdown Sunday: How the climate crisis is turning the Arctic green
Sitdown Sunday: Dolly Parton on donating money to the Moderna vaccine
5 Christmas longreads for the day that's in it
Sitdown Sunday: Succession actor Jeremy Strong on his intense approach to his craft
Sitdown Sunday: Uncovering the buried secrets of Pompeii
Sitdown Sunday: Ways to confront the climate crisis without losing hope
Sitdown Sunday: How they made the seminal horror film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Your Evening Longread: How the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker became a contentious public figure
Sitdown Sunday: The story of the 'bad art friend' that went viral
Sitdown Sunday: My time with Kurt Cobain
Sitdown Sunday: Saving the Afghan man who saved my life
Sitdown Sunday: Can you love a robot dog?
Sitdown Sunday: The real story behind Zola
Sitdown Sunday: The terrifying insect apocalypse and its impact on the planet
Sitdown Sunday: 'I'll keep searching for missing Esther'
Sitdown Sunday: 'The dark room which should have been a haven began to feel like a prison'
Sitdown Sunday: Britney Spears' conservatorship nightmare
Sitdown Sunday: The serial killer and the dogged detective
Sitdown Sunday: The Kardashian family's unexpected billion-dollar empire
Sitdown Sunday: Has the Dyatlov Pass incident been solved at last?
Sitdown Sunday: Feeling blah? You might be languishing
Your evening longread: How Beckett's 'fail better' mantra took over Silicon Valley
Sitdown Sunday: Can less praise help you be a better parent?
Sitdown Sunday: He asked me, 'Do you think I'm a monster?'