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Issue 12 · Autumn 2026On doing things slowlySubscribe

SLOW

A magazine for the long read. Four issues a year, printed on paper.

Cover story

The long read, again.

We read more words than ever, and finish fewer of them. A case for the article you need an evening for, and for the evening.

Words by Mara Lind · Pictures by Ilo Berg · 14 minutes

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The reading room at dusk. Illustration by Ilo Berg.

Nothing worth reading was ever written in a hurry.
Mara Lind, page 14

In this issue

Six stories, 96 pages

Essay

Bread takes two days

A baker in the hills on why the dough decides when it is ready, not the clock.

Anna Roth · 9 minutes

Interview

Forty years of letters

She has written to the same friend every Sunday since 1986. We read a few.

Tom Ehrlich · 12 minutes

Places

A coast without a road

Six days on foot along the last stretch of shore you can only reach by walking.

Ilo Berg · 16 minutes

From the issue

Page 14

On doing things slowly

By Mara Lind

The first thing you notice in the reading room is the clock, because it has stopped. Nobody has wound it in years, and nobody wants to. The chairs face the window, not each other, and the lamps are low enough that you have to choose a book before you can see much else.

We built this issue around that room. Not because everyone should read in silence for three hours, but because most of us have forgotten that we can. The articles are long on purpose. Some of them take a whole evening. We think that is the point.

A slow article is not a padded one. It takes the time to get something right: the name of the baker's grandmother, the price of a loaf in 1962, the weather on the day the letters started. Facts like these are cheap to leave out and expensive to find. They are also what you remember.

So make tea. Put the phone in another room. Start on page 22 if you like bread, or on page 48 if you would rather walk. There is no right order, only enough time.

Continue in the issue

The interview

Page 34

Forty years of letters

Hanna Vogel, 81, has written to her friend Greta every Sunday since 1986. Tom Ehrlich visited her kitchen table.

How did the letters start?: Greta moved to Canada in 1986 and we could not afford the phone. I wrote on the first Sunday, and she wrote back. Neither of us wanted to be the one who stopped.
What do you write about?: Mostly nothing. The weather, a soup, who died, who married. Reading them now, the nothing is the best part.
Have you ever missed a week?: Twice. Once for a wedding and once for a broken wrist. I wrote that one with my left hand, and she framed it.

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Issue 12

The long read, againCover story14
Bread takes two daysEssay22
Forty years of lettersInterview34
A coast without a roadPlaces48
The repair caféReport62
Ten books to read twiceList78

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The long read, again.

In this issue

Bread takes two days

Forty years of letters

A coast without a road

From the issue

On doing things slowly

The interview

Forty years of letters

Contents

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The long read, again.

In this issue

Bread takes two days

Forty years of letters

A coast without a road

From the issue

On doing things slowly

The interview

Forty years of letters

Contents

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