The Dial 4/10/25 The Dial 4/10/25

The Messiness of Foreign Aid

A conversation with Mara Kardas-Nelson, who wrote about the boom-and-bust cycle of foreign aid in Sierra Leone for our Promises issue.

Mara Kardas-Nelson 4/8/25 Mara Kardas-Nelson 4/8/25

Boom and Bust

How Sierra Leone lost faith in foreign aid.

Julia Amberger, Nanni Fontana, Marzio Mian, & Nicola Scevola (Tr. Elettra Pauletto) 4/3/25 Julia Amberger, Nanni Fontana, Marzio Mian, & Nicola Scevola (Tr. Elettra Pauletto) 4/3/25

Big Fish

The luxury tuna industry is killing the Mediterranean.

Dalia Taha (Tr. Sara Elkamel) 4/3/25 Dalia Taha (Tr. Sara Elkamel) 4/3/25

Three Poems

“A story of two truths: light / and shadows.”

Juliette Pavy (Tr. Esther King) 4/1/25 Juliette Pavy (Tr. Esther King) 4/1/25

The Pursuit of Greenland

Does anyone on the island actually want to join the United States?

The Dial 4/1/25 The Dial 4/1/25

Editors’ Note

Issue 27: Promises

Bartolomeo Sala 3/27/25 Bartolomeo Sala 3/27/25

Rural Fictions

Farming vs the earth in contemporary film.

Raghed Waked & Justin Salhani 3/25/25 Raghed Waked & Justin Salhani 3/25/25

The Road to Palmyra

After years of violence, Syrians hope to restore the ancient city in the desert.

Emmet Livingstone 3/20/25 Emmet Livingstone 3/20/25

Congo’s Implosion

Reporting from the fall of Goma.

Emilien Hofman (Tr. Elettra Pauletto) 3/20/25 Emilien Hofman (Tr. Elettra Pauletto) 3/20/25

The Last Children of Antoine

A 115-year-old religion, founded by a Belgian metal worker, refuses to explain itself.

The Dial 3/18/25 The Dial 3/18/25

“Davos with Guns”

A conversation with Caitlin L. Chandler, who wrote a dispatch from the Munich Security Conference for our Gospel issue.

Anita Pouchard Serra & Natalie Alcoba 3/13/25 Anita Pouchard Serra & Natalie Alcoba 3/13/25

Blocking the Clinics

Argentina's president Javier Milei takes the “chainsaw” to women’s rights.

Federico Perelmuter 3/13/25 Federico Perelmuter 3/13/25

From Bergoglio to Francis

The pope’s autobiography styles him as “of the people,” but his past in Argentina is more complicated.

Sinan Antoon (Tr. Sara Elkamel) 3/11/25 Sinan Antoon (Tr. Sara Elkamel) 3/11/25

Three Poems from Iraq

“It was mourned by no one / And nothing.”

Caitlin L. Chandler 3/6/25 Caitlin L. Chandler 3/6/25

Arms Race in Munich

Beer and bewilderment at the international security conference.

Abubakar Adam Ibrahim 3/4/25 Abubakar Adam Ibrahim 3/4/25

The Impossible Assignment

Truth is a fragmented mirror. What are writers to do?

Banu Mushtaq (Tr. Deepa Bhasthi) 3/4/25 Banu Mushtaq (Tr. Deepa Bhasthi) 3/4/25

The Shroud

“Even in her wildest dreams, she had not thought that Bua would haunt her after death.”

The Dial 3/4/25 The Dial 3/4/25

Editors’ Note

Issue 26: Gospel

Ma Xu (Tr. Jennifer Fossenbell & Zuo Fei) 2/27/25 Ma Xu (Tr. Jennifer Fossenbell & Zuo Fei) 2/27/25

Once I Mistook the Moonlight on the Sea

“Oh, once again I mistook things”

Sebastián López Brach 2/25/25 Sebastián López Brach 2/25/25

The Return of a Lost City

Nearly 50 years after it disappeared, Miramar is reemerging from the water.