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From the archive: Fifty shades of white: the long fight against racism in romance novels

We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors This week, from 2019: for decades, the world of romantic fiction has been divided by a heated debate about racism and diversity. Is there any hope of a happy ending?. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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  Dark waters: how the adventure of a lifetime turned to tragedy

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  From the archive: How Hong Kong caught fire: the story of a radical uprisi…

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  The war on Japanese knotweed

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  Erdogan’s earthquake: how years of bad government made a disaster worse

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  From the archive: The man in the iron lung

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  On the trail of the Dark Avenger: the most dangerous virus writer in the w…

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  The dark universe: can a scientist battling long Covid unlock the mysterie…

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  From the archive: Splendid isolation: how I stopped time by sitting in a f…

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  How Facebook and Instagram became marketplaces for child sex trafficking

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  ‘I feel like I’m selling my soul’: inside the crisis at Juventus

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  From the archive: How ultra-processed food took over your shopping basket

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  Sleeping beauties: the evolutionary innovations that wait millions of year…

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  Sudan’s outsider: how a paramilitary leader fell out with the army and plu…

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  From the archive: Cod wars to food banks: how a Lancashire fishing town is…

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  Are coincidences real?

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  ‘The torture’s real. The time I did was real’: the Belfast man waterboarde…