The Guardian Long Read #3
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 Illustration: Javi Aznarez
The Guardian Long Read compiles 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 can’t 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, and commission new illustration to accompany the stories.
Issue three delves deeper into The Guardian’s archives of 1,500 long read articles—the eldest story here is from eight years ago, the most recent first appeared just a few months back.
Vittles editor Jonathan Nunn hails Nicholas Saunders, who, among many visionary acts, published the book ‘Alternative London’ back in 1972. Sirin Kale tells the extraordinary story of a stowaway who fell from a plane into a suburban London garden. And Samantha Subramanian examines the battle between paper towels and a new generation of electric hand dryers in public toilets.
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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