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This week's long reads

‘The Mozart of the attention economy’
Why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star

‘Do you have a family?’
Midlife with no kids, ageing parents – and no crisis

This week's podcasts

Missing in the Amazon: the disappearance – episode 1 – podcast

A deadly mission: how Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira tried to warn the world about the Amazon’s destruction – podcast

A pick from our archive

'Cut the nonsense'
The simple idea that could transform US criminal justice

Judge Victoria Pratt looks defendants in the eye, asks them to write essays about their goals and congratulates them for complying – and she is getting results

How to spot a perfect fake
The world’s top art forgery detective

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