The Guardian Long Read
210 x 272 mm, 100 pages
London, UK
First published in 2023
Three times a year
Editors: David Wolf & Clare Longrigg
Art directors: Chris Clarke & Andrew Stocks
Cover Illustrations: Miki Lowe
Returning after its 2023 debut The Guardian’s Long Read is a premium print publication compiling some of the newspaper’s finest long-form journalism. In an age of shrinking attention spans and AI, this magazine offers 100 pages and 55,000 words of thoroughly reported writing. Its ten carefully selected articles are the kind of work that cannot be reduced to bite-sized snippets; they demand to be read in full. The texts also give the design team a chance to adapt the daily newspaper’s design language to a new format.
Issue two for Autumn/Winter 2025 brings together a powerful lineup of stories. It includes a feature on Emmanuel Macron, examining why—despite deep unpopularity on his home soil—he manages to thrive on the world stage and in navigating figures like Donald Trump; a personal essay by Zarlasht Halaimzai on the realities of being a refugee in Britain; and an investigation into the deepening troubles at the British Museum, from internal theft to failing infrastructure and underpaid staff. Plus, find pieces on the complexities of treating ADHD, the AI scientist urging China to treat AI with the same strategic urgency as nuclear weapons, and the spread of steroids from the bodybuilding community into the mainstream.
On the Journal
Watch a video of magCulture Meets The Guardian Long Read, featuring David Wolf, Clare Longrigg and Chris Clarke, recorded at the shop on 26 November 2025.
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