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This week's long reads
How to leave a sinking nation  
Tuvalu’s dreams of dry land
Tuvalu’s dreams of dry land
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o  
Take away our language and we will forget who we are
Take away our language and we will forget who we are
This week's podcasts
Best of 2025 … so far: The savage suburbia of Helen Garner: ‘I wanted to dong Martin Amis with a bat’ – podcast
Best of 2025 … so far: The savage suburbia of Helen Garner: ‘I wanted to dong Martin Amis with a bat’ – podcast
Best of 2025 … so far: ‘I am not who you think I am’: how a deep-cover KGB spy recruited his own son – podcast
A pick from our archive
The tragedy of Palestinian journalist Wael al-Dahdouh
‘I couldn’t cry over my children like everyone else’  
The tragedy of Palestinian journalist Wael al-Dahdouh
After his wife and two of his children were killed in Gaza, Al Jazeera journalist Wael al-Dahdouh became famous around the world for his decision to keep reporting. But this was just the start of his heartbreaking journey
‘A deranged pyroscape’  
How fires across the world have grown weirder
 

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