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# evening longread

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Your evening longread: 'It took 32 years, but I finally found my kidnapped son'
Your evening longread: A profile of Donald Trump years before he became president
Your evening longread: The search for life on Mars
Your evening longread: Irish women writers were labelled 'quiet' - they were anything but
Your evening longread: How will climate refugees move across borders?
Your evening longread: The life of a Syrian photographer
Your evening longread: The South Korean loner lifestyle
Your evening longread: Inside Citizen, the hyperlocal crime reporting app
Your evening longread: Inside the Nespresso coffee empire
Your evening longread: Why some people choose to be childfree
Your evening longread: The political education of Killer Mike
Your evening longread: Uncovering the unsolved mysteries of Mount Everest
Your evening longread: A conversation with Kanye about Trump, Biden and why he wants to run for the presidency
Your evening longread: Inside the lives of internet middlemen
Your evening longread: Why the Mueller investigation failed
Your evening longread: Solitary confinement in a Texas women's prison
Your evening longread: What's wrong with Whatsapp?
Your evening longread: 'When he wasn't with me, he was in the garden'
Your evening longread: The top basketball player who left to help a jailed man find justice
Your evening longread: What it means to understand Bruce Lee
Your evening longread: How the first Pride march made history
Your evening longread: Why Dublin has so many mismatched street signs
Your evening longread: 'We're in danger. In the middle of the sea'
Your evening longread: The fascinating life of Lee Miller
Your evening longread: Meet the extreme night owls
Your evening longread: A personal history of racism
Your evening longread: The plane wreck that could solve a 50-year-old mystery
Your evening longread: The battle to overthrow the Tampax empire
Your evening longread: A history of the Sahara desert, the hottest place on earth
Your evening longread: The fascinating Micheál MacLiommóir writes about the art of acting
Your evening longread: A man's quest to save the music of the Holocaust
Your evening longread: Who invented the wheel - and how on earth did they do it?
Your evening longread: An American battlefield tells the story of three men from Kerry's 1860s diaspora
Your evening longread: Our brains like the familiar - so why do we seek out new music?
Your evening longread: The lives of the super-rich stars of Instagram
Your evening longread: How the Bon Appetit test kitchen became a YouTube hit
Your evening longread: New realisations about the incredible Great Barrier Reef
Your evening longread: Meet the farmer saving the world's rarest heirloom seeds
Your evening longread: The story of Phil Ochs, the folk singer who could've been as big as Bob Dylan
Your evening longread: How antiperspirants became a billion-dollar industry