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Best of 2023 … so far: How Deborah Levy can change your life

Every Friday in August we will publish some of our favourite audio long reads of 2023, in case you missed them, with an introduction from the editorial team to explain why we’ve chosen it. This week, from April: From her shimmering novels to her ‘living autobiographies’, Deborah Levy’s work inspires a devotion few literary authors ever achieve. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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  From the archive: ‘We the people’: the battle to define populism

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  The Netanyahu doctrine: how Israel’s longest-serving leader reshaped the c…

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  Chainsaws, disguises and toxic tea: the battle for Sheffield’s trees

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  From the archive: How the murders of two elderly Jewish women shook France

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  ‘I stopped counting how many friends died’: life after the contaminated bl…

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  Inside the Taliban’s luxury hotel

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  Special Edition: Behind the scenes at the Long Read

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  The mass protest decade: why did the street movements of the 2010s fail?

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  ‘Incoherence and inconsistency’: the inside story of the Rwanda deportatio…

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  From the archive: The last of the Zoroastrians

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  The insider: how Michael Lewis got a backstage pass for the fall of Sam Ba…

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  ‘We are just getting started’: the plastic-eating bacteria that could chan…

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  From the archive: What I have learned from my suicidal patients

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  The trials of Robert Habeck: is the world’s most powerful green politician…

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  ‘A hidden universe of suffering’: the Palestinian children sent to jail

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  From the archive: ‘In our teens, we dreamed of making peace between Israel…