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  • 1 month ago | theguardian.com | Samanth Subramanian

    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 2022: Until the 1990s, there were almost no Jews in Nigeria. Now thousands have enthusiastically taken up the faith. Why?

  • 1 month ago | samanth.substack.com | Samanth Subramanian

    It’s just as well for you all that books take years to write. When I started this newsletter in 2020, I must have done a certain amount of book promotion, entreating and beseeching you all to buy (if not read) “A Dominant Character,” my biography of JBS Haldane. (There’s still time.) A full five years have passed before we’re at that stage of the cycle again. Over the next few months, I may ask you to pre-order / order / buy / read more than one new book of mine, depending on where you live.

  • 1 month ago | theguardian.com | Samanth Subramanian |Esther Opoku-Gyeni |Joleen Goffin |Joshan Chana |Ellie Bury

    This week, from 2021: Amid the complex web of international trade, proving the authenticity of a product can be near-impossible. But one company is taking the search to the atomic level.<br><br>By Samanth Subramanian. Read by Raj Ghatak

  • 2 months ago | theguardian.com | Samanth Subramanian |Nicola Alexandrou |Ellie Bury

    The Black Swan follows a repentant master criminal as she sets up corrupt clients in front of hidden cameras. But is she really reformed – and is the director up to his own tricks?

  • Mar 29, 2025 | samanth.substack.com | Samanth Subramanian

    The very first sentence of “The Journalist and the Murderer” is full-bore artillery, blowing apart the egos of the practitioners of the very profession that regards it as a central text. Janet Malcolm writes:Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.

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